http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html

Try this from Xerox.

If you go to this web site, you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the Armed Services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one. Pass this on to your members and friends! This is a great site.
Please send a card. It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Its about supporting THE TROOPS not the war!

No One Cares?

Actually I'd bet plenty here do, and mighta added that to the list of other ways to support the troops already here, eh?

My Girl Scout troop just finished a little fundraiser for somethin' along the same line. We're sending 100 $5.00 phone cards for them hospitalized from war wounds so they can keep in touch with their families durin' the holiday season (25 each via the Command Master Chiefs at Bethesda and Balboa Naval Hospitals, and the Command Sergeants Major at Walter Reed and Brook Army Medical Centers). Now methinks we'll see if we can't raise some more for them at Ft Campbell and Great Lakes.

I think people care, BT- I posted about this, too.
I think sometimes people just do it and don;t necessarily post to say they have taken action.

Thanks for the responses.

I need to take a day off and sleep!

TOO MANY HOURS @ WORK for two weeks now with no days off. Its cutting into my posting........

Done...
from Hammond Peace, La.

Don't get me wrong, eh? I'll be usin' this and passin' it 'round too!

Methinks we don't, and probably can't do enough for our folks. I won't quit doin' everything I can and lookin' for more ways to do it.

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,1...5,00.html?wh=wh,

VA 'Retro Pay' Update
Tom Philpott | December 01, 2006
‘Retro Pay’ So Far Reaches 31,000, Averages $1500
Two months into a year-long review of pay records and disability compensation histories for 140,000 military retirees have produced a total of $45 million in back pay to 31,000 disabled retirees, say officials in charge.

http://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay

With basic pay and 70 types of special pays and allowances, military pay is customized to your situation. Changes in pay grade, duty status, your military occupation, duty station, or deployment status can have an impact on your pay.

Whether you are on active duty, in the reserve or Guard, a veteran or a retiree this section will help you understand your pay, allowances, compensation, and pension. In addition you'll learn how to calculate retirement pay, veteran disability compensation, and veterans pension.

To learn about the 2.2% across-the-board pay raise, and an April 1, 2007 targeted pay raise, view the 2007 Military Pay Charts.

Caring is doing BigTom. Sort of like what Jesus said about praying in public; doing it in private means more to God than putting on a front to get praise for doing it from man.

amen gunny

I actually needed to hear that.

I have been running too far ahead of my REAL leader...

THANKS.

Hey Marine. I don't agree with you on many political things.

Here you are right on. Oh in MHO!


Thanks for the link bigtom...nuff said.

Why do you keep demotin' him two pay grades from E-9 to E-7 when respondin' to his notes? Hopefully 'tis just outa ignorance, eh?Probably 'cause you're so much more conservative than he is.

We started our 6th drive to send goodies to troops overseas today. I'm hoping the response is better than last year, but after four strong years, I'll take one down one if this year picks up.