Holiday mail for Heroes , requesting Help from DUers

[proud patriot]

When filling out your Christmas/Holiday cards this year, Pleaes take
ONE CARD and SEND it to this address:

Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD
20791-5456

If we pass this on to friends/coworkers/family and everyone sends one
card, think of how many cards these soldiers could get to bring up their
spirits.

[FLyellowdog]

1. Should be sent through the Red Cross, not Walter Reed?

Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD
20791-5456
Check Snopes.com

[proud patriot]

2. Thanks , my friend who forwarded me the email must

have gotten it wrong . I will send the correction to my friend

[bluetrain]

3. There would be no war if the soldiers refused to fight.

[GoneOffShore]

6. Too right.

[bluetrain]

4. .

[Octafish]

5. Excellent idea.

Sometimes a word can mean the world.

[virgogal]

7. What a wonderful thing to do. Thanks for the information.

[TexasObserver]

8. Will these cards be censored by this organization?

Can we send cards encouraging them to understand better their role in a despicable war?

Or will those be culled by the organization you represent?

[personman]

9. I really wish I could, but I cant.

(Yeah, I'm ready to get hated on...)

I don't mean physically, which I could do, I mean philosophically.

Do I reserve my heart for our soldier wounded in the line of battle, or the Iraqis and Afghans who have been shelled to hell and back.

For every one of our soldiers killed, about a hundred innocent and foreign people have died.

My heart goes out to all, I do not hate American soldiers, but I DO despise the thoughtlessness that allows such activities to continue.

I personally drove down to Austin, Texas with my MMA instructor and helped him to teach veterans hand-to-hand combat. I was in Austin, which is essentially the liberal outpost deep in conservative territory.

My host, who was a vet, was very gracious and welcoming, warm and understanding besides. Several times he referred to the people in Iraq as "Hadjis" which most of us know is an ethnic slur against people of muslim faith. He was not the problem, but merely a symptom.

He actually quit the military a few years away from his pension and for that I respect him. He lives in a culdesac with a family, works for Dell, and writes for Kung-Fu/Tai-Chi magazine. Has a master rank in Tae Kwon Do, which I witnessed him receiving.

Anyway, my point is, they made a decision, and they live with the consequences.

Should another Hitler crop-up, I will be on the front-lines advocating for our military, fighting for it, etc. Till then, it is all bully foreign policy to me. Real patriots should stand against such things. Fortunately this vet did not lose limbs over this.

I really do feel for the guy, but I also wonder, if he would call these people hadjis in front of us notherners, what might he do in our absence?

It is really a shame. I wish I could be rooting for our military, but my conscience will not allow it.

I wish all people who are working to preserve lives the best.

-Andy