$upport our troops...

[B@rt]

 

[Jonathan]

I'd really like to hijack this thread back to the original post: what one can do to support the men and women who are 'in the trenches'.

I followed some of the links in another thread to http://www.operationuplink.org/ , a group which claims to send phonecards to Service Members so that they can call home. I was wondering if anyone knew anything more about this group.

-Jon

 

[Unicorn]

ikendu,
I should have made that point more specific, or noticeable. That is the one way that those who are opped to the war can still be supportive of the soldiers fighting it. If they consider the war merely mistimed, bad strategy, unnessary or the like, then ok. The ones I have issue with are those who state that the war itself is illegal, ordered by the non-elected president, itself an outlaw government.

To get back to the topic,
Don't send any latters, or packages to service members unless you know them. The military ended the "any servicemember" program out of fear that the packages could be used to send dangerous materials to troops (dangerous to the troops, a bomb, poisoned, or a biologically contaminated item). The same applies to organisations that send out care packages.
These are a few of the links that the DOD suggests.
"Log on to the following Web sites to show support, to include greeting cards, virtual Thank You cards and calling card donations to help troops stay in contact with loved ones:
http://www.defendamerica.mil/support_troops.html
http://www.usocares.org/home.htm
http://www.army.mil/operations/iraq/faq.html"

Check out this thread as well, I cut and pasted the email that was sent to me by one of my companies readiness NCO's. It's the DOD new release.
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB22&Number=207622&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1

 

[Alan Hsu]

One thing flasholics can do to support the troops is stopping whining about Surefire product delays! Just let the folks at Surefire focus on making more quality flashlights for the guys and gals fighting in the Middle East.

 

[B@rt]

Just a thank you for bringing the thread back to topic. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif

I do hope the present (tense) situation will not cause animosity around the boards. Let's try to be civil and polite, even if we agree to disagree... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

CPF has been a true example of our ability to remain a friendly and extremely well self moderated board /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif.

Let's keep it this way !

Thanks all!