They need simple items to keep comfortable, which can be as simple as Socks.
That is a great story!
If you can, please contact your local VA hospitals to help out the Vets, who have become barely remembered by the rest of the country. They need simple items to keep comfortable, which can be as simple as Socks.
My Masonic Lodge donates money several times a Year to our local VA hospital and several the members help out. I plan to help out for the new wave of Vets from the War on Terror for technology needs.
If you can't donate Noney, why not a Few Hours a month? Listen to this Old Timers and learn an almost forgotten history. I have met a Vet who was involved in capturing the Death Camps that the Islamic morons have claimed don't exist.
They need simple items to keep comfortable, which can be as simple as Socks.
I second that. My brother is an Occupational Therapist at a VA hospital. My parents have adopted a group of patients this year and are sending cards and gifts up there (from them and donated from others) and my brother is going to take them over on Christmas day. Many of the guys are spending Christmas day by themselves at the hospital. My daughter's Catholic school class has a group at another VA hospital that they send cards, art, and gifts to during the year. I think it is lovely that people are finally supporting the troops and their families, but there are a lot of old forgotten vets out there who are much lonelier and who are in need of support, too.
To the original subject- NICE. For 8 years I wore the diamond that was all a Marine E2 straight out of boot camp could afford (and that was with an extra $200 I kicked in on my own) before we were married. Once he was in the civillian world, I begged for years for an upgrade and never got it... : (
I asked what sort of things the patients would like and was told - blankets. I guess the hospital issue are not the most cheerful, so each year I try to pick out a few colorful ones.
Merry Christmas!