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How can you support an American Soldier?
Thank a veteran, soldier or military family for their service to our country. Freedom isn't free!
Visit Soldiers Angels, an organization that supports thousands of American service members and provides aid and comfort to military families. Soldiers Angels works through merchants and organizations that donate services and support.
Adopt an American Soldier through Soldiers Angels
National Family Military Association, Inc.
The only private national organization designed to identify and resolve issues of concern for military families. Serves all uniformed services.
Support the Mountain Post Historical Center which will preserve U.S. Army history. The site is near Fort Carson's Main Gate and the Kit Carson statue.
Visit Stars & Stripes online newspaper
Send a care package through USO Cares
Post a Message To Our Soldiers
Donate time to the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic by reading a chapter from a textbook. They will record and use your chapter in textbooks for blind, dyslexic recovering American Soldiers, veterans and of course, students. OR, contact the RFB&D to connect them with soldiers who need audio textbooks.
Get Elaine Dumler's book, I'm Already Home for a military family. Don't miss the "Flat Daddy"!
Send a Bible to a U.S. active duty soldier for free courtesy of the International Bible Society (Submitted by Janet Cetani, USA Western Territory, Salvation Army)
For Colorado residents, support Homefront Cares Inc., a volunteer, not-for-profit organization founded in 2003 to support Colorado's military families of all services.
Send a donation to the Patriot Guard. They greet soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and are often invited guests of families at the funerals of fallen soldiers. (NOTE: They also formed a protective barrier with their motorcycles to insulate grieving families from protester harassment.)
Regarding letters or packages addressed to "any wounded soldier" or "any service member"
Walter Reed Army Medical Center cannot accept packages, letters or cards addressed to 'Any Wounded Soldier' or 'A Recovering American Soldier'. This decision was made to ensure the safety and well being of patients and staff at medical centers throughout the Department of Defense.
Also, the U.S. Postal Service is no longer accepting "Any Service Member" or "A Recovering American Soldier" letters or packages. Mail addressed in that manner found in a collection box will not be delivered.
Instead, please consider making a donation to one of the more than 300 nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping our troops and their families listed at the America Supports You website.
IT IS THE SOLDIER
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press."
"It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech."
"It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us freedom to demonstrate."
"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."
(Author Unknown)
Seen on a bumper sticker: "If you don't stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them!"
Fort Carson CO Welcome Home Ceremony
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