Sponsor a Care Package for the Troops

USO ^ | 2/20/06 | USO

[mdittmar]

The United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) is enlisting support of individuals around the world to support the troops through Operation USO Care Package. These packages are being delivered to members of the U.S. Armed Forces deployed around the world to show them they have not been forgotten and to provide a ‘touch of home’.

With a donation of $25 you can sponsor a care package and include a personal message of support and encouragement. These USO Care Packages at minimum, include requested items such as pre-paid worldwide phone cards, sunscreen, travel size toiletries, disposable camera and a message from the donor thanking them for their service and sacrifice.

[mdittmar]

Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be duty, honor, country.

Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm,aloof, you stand as the Nation's war guardians, as its lifeguards from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiators in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice.

[SandRat]

TROOP PING!!!!

[Family Guy]

Bump for our extremely worthy soldiers.

[mdittmar]

Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent, whether our personal liberties are as firm and complete as they should be.

These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: duty, honor, country.

May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.

[batmast]

Almighty and most merciful Father,
we humbly beseech Thee,
of Thy great goodness,
to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.
Grant us fair weather for Battle.
Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power,
we may advance from victory to victory,
and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations.

-by Msgr. James H. O'Neill 12/8/1944 (the Chief Chaplain of the Third Army throughout the five campaigns on the Staff of General Patton)

http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html

[StarCMC]

BTTT!!!

[Thumper1960]

BUMP!!!

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Vodka in the Mouthwash Bottle (with food coloring) ping!

[facedown]

bttt

[Uncle Miltie]

Microsoft Fargo (Great Plains) will be sending several hundred dollars worth of Girl Scout Cookies to our co-workers' friends and families in Iraq.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[daybreakcoming]

That's a great idea - benefiting both the Girl Scouts AND our troops.