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Send A Postcard. Support Our Troops

I appreciate the U.S. Military personnel.  Today Faith sent me the link for an easy way to let them know that I appreciate them.
Xerox will send a postcard to the troops for you.  It only takes a couple clicks to pick a postcard and a message.  I did it in less than 3 minutes and [...]

Memorial Day

A big thank you from our house to anyone in the military and their families!
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Due to the holiday and our different schedule my regular post will be postponed.
It is such a blessing to have freedom and choices!

Sunday Poem ~ New Army

The author of this poem is a good friend of ours.  My husband and I were his youth leaders during his high school years.
He joined the Marines and moved to Arizona.
Sadly, reports came back east that he was not living for the Lord.
Due to some accidents he was medically discharged from the Marine Corps.
Recently we [...]

It’s Patriot Day

May God bless our military.
Thanks to them there has only been one day like 9/11/01.

Info at Wikipedia and from the Army.
E-mail Our Troops!

The Gratitude Campaign

One of my nephews is going to boot camp Monday and his parents sent this to me through e-mail. 
Watch the movie here about using a sign to say thank you to a person serving our country.
Don’t worry about turning on your sound.  It just plays slightly nasty music.
Let me know what you think.  Good idea? Bad [...]

Sunday Poem for Veteran’s Day

     Photo from Getty Images 
Here Comes The Flag!
                     
Here comes the flag,
Hail it!
Who dares to drag
Or trail it?
Give it hurrahs – -
Three for the stars,
Three for the bars.

Uncover your head to it!
The soldiers who tread to it
Shout at the sight of it,
The justice and right of it,
The unsullied white of it,
The blue and the red [...]

Veterans Day is Coming

I know, it’s another link…
It just seems to fit for this week.
A Soldier’s song – If I Die Before You Wake.
Thanks to my oldest sister for sending the link to me a while ago.  I’m pretty sure you read my blog because my site meter says Portugal and who else in Portugal would read my blog?!

Letters to Soldiers

In the book Hansi The Girl Who Left the Swastika I came across an interesting statement about the Nazi Youth.
Mail helped to keep the war going.  As everybody knew, headquarters had ordered that in case of emergency, mail must be delivered even if food must be left behind.  The boys could stand hunger as long [...]