Please visit www.911freedomforfamilies.org for a list of names of all who perished at the Pentagon, Ground Zero and "that Pennsylvania field".
www.operationshoebox.com gives instructions on how to get much needed items and letters of support to our troops.
As my George starts his freshman year in Birmingham, AL safely on US soil, a fellow 2010 graduate is beginning his life as a soldier in Afghanistan.
A trip to WalMart with a supply list enabled us to gather things needed for life in the desert. to be sent to this Memphis soldier. We thought of what we would want George to have if it were him over there.
Don't forget letters and pictures. They are far from home and need to know we haven't forgotten them. They want to hear about football season and the daily happenings in our American way of life.
One Memphis group that sent a box received a thank you note from an officer who said the letters brought tears to the eyes of his men. He said it helped them to know someone cares.
We are safe because of them.
Consider asking fellow workers or friends to purchase items to ship out. If you are gathering with friends anywhere ask them to bring at least just one thing--chapstick or toothpaste-- for your own operation shoebox.
It is the least we can do.
They need dental floss, cookies, gum, Kool Aid on the Go, sun lotion, playing cards, phone cards etc We added football magazines and Halloween candy.
There is no WalMart- or a Walgreens-on-every-corner over there! We take it for granted over here.
We are deeply saddened by the fact that Liza's schoolmate has received word his brother was killed in Afghanistan a few days ago.
Freedom isn't free
