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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Public signing cards for troops on Veterans Day
By CHRISTINE SIMMONS
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Dozens of volunteers and passers-by are stopping by an American Red Cross building on Veterans Day to sign holiday greetings cards for U.S soldiers around the world and veterans.

The event in Washington kicks off a program called Holiday Mail for Heroes. A Defense Department policy requires that ordinary mail addressed to "any soldier" must be returned to the sender. But this program lets the public send holiday greeting cards that aren't addressed to a particular service member.

The cards will be screened, sorted and distributed to military hospitals and bases nationally and overseas as well as to veterans and military family members.

The public can send greeting cards through December 7 to Holiday Mail for Heroes, P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, Md., 20791-5456.
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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 11, 2009 - 4:34 PM EST
Ummm...Kool aide!!
Small percentage, eh?? Is that why Obambi's approval numbers are nose diving month after month. Maybe you can explain to poor old dumb me why the unemployment just hit 10.2 percent with many economists predicting it's going to hit 11 percent or higher and stay there. And that doesn't include those who have just given up looking for work so the real number is probably something like 16 or 17 percent. And isn't it funny how quick Obambi was to jump on a WHITE COP who arrested his Black buddy but wants us to slow down when it comes to a murdering Islamic Jihadist that killed 14 people at Ft. Hood. It doesn't matter if the elction were to be held today or in 2012. Obambi has already shown that he is incompetent, that he has absolutely no understanding of how our economy works and that he is the most divisive President ever. But you go on drinking that kool aide. Bet it's pretty tasty.
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Reply # 2
Date: Nov 11, 2009 - 1:47 PM EST
11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)


Bless our vets!
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