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Please Thank Our Troops This Christmas

December 16, 2007 by GayPatriot

As we are all scurrying around to parties and gift-buying binges, please take some time to do something for our volunteer men and women serving in the US Armed Forces all around the world.

We are in a generational and ideological struggle between Western democratic liberal ideals and radical Islamic fascism. Our troops are on the front lines of this war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Africa, and many other hot spots in this worldwide struggle.

From FreedomsWatch.org are some great ideas of how you can contribute time and/or treasure to honor our servicemen and women. (SUPPORT THE TROOPS!)

One of my personal favorite pro-military organizations is Soldier’s Angels.

Soldiers’ Angels was started by a self-described ordinary mother of an ordinary young man turned hero, Sgt. Brandon Varn. Brandon was deployed in Iraq and has since honorably completed his mission and has returned back to his proud and loving family.

In the summer of 2003, he wrote home expressing his concern that some soldiers did not receive any mail or support from home. Being a caring and loving mother, she decided not to allow a situation like that to continue. She contacted a few friends and extended family to ask if they would write to a soldier or two. Within a few short months, Soldiers’ Angels went from a mother writing a few extra letters to an Internet Community with thousands of angels worldwide.

After all, how can you say “no” to a group of American military moms?!?! I’ve donated to Soldier’s Angels today as I have each Christmastime.

Please do something this holiday season to support our volunteer military and remind them that the American people stand behind them here at home!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Filed Under: Conservative Positivity, Freedom, Great Americans, Heroes, Iraq, Military, Patriotism, War On Terror, We The People, World War III

Comments

  1. sean says

    December 16, 2007 at 2:33 pm - December 16, 2007

    Is this the bleeding heart conservative post of the year?

  2. ILoveCapitalism says

    December 16, 2007 at 6:58 pm - December 16, 2007

    sean, does ejaculating your small-minded spite make you feel good? does it improve your life? or your relationship with Jesus?

  3. Leah says

    December 16, 2007 at 8:41 pm - December 16, 2007

    Another wonderful organization that I am actively involved with is: http://opgratitude.com/. We are 100%, we just sent our 300,000 box out. This year alone we sent out 100,000 boxes of goodies to our brave men and women overseas.

  4. ThatGayConservative says

    December 16, 2007 at 10:38 pm - December 16, 2007

    Good deal, Leah.
    For clarification, was that the 300,000th box or did y’all send 300,000 boxes?

    Either way, it’s amazing.

  5. Leah says

    December 17, 2007 at 1:19 pm - December 17, 2007

    TGC, we have sent 300,000 boxes in five years. We have become so efficient, and have many corporate sponsors, that this year alone we sent out 100,000 packages.
    We are 100% volunteer, our product comes from corporate sponsors as well as from people all over the country who collect and send us donations. We are funded entirely from private donations, no government money.
    I’d say our biggest donation is that the CA National Guard allows us to use the Armory in Van Nuys as both storage and work space. So that is a big savings on not having to pay rent. But the expenses in postage, printing, garbage collection – all means that this year will cost $1,200,000, and we are close to meeting that goal.
    This weekend we had 1500 volunteers come and pack boxes. Many were first timers – which amazes me. We are in the fifth year, and new people are constantly showing up to show their support for our wonderful fighting men and women.

  6. The Livewire says

    December 17, 2007 at 7:35 pm - December 17, 2007

    Thats’ great Leah,

    We sent a shipment to the troops rather than a gift exchange at work. Just got the message today that it had arrived and spread through the unit.

  7. Mike says

    December 18, 2007 at 1:32 pm - December 18, 2007

    Another great organization:

    http://www.anysoldier.com/

    Thanks for the reminder to all your readers, Bruce.

  8. ILoveCapitalism says

    December 18, 2007 at 6:21 pm - December 18, 2007

    Hat tip Powerline: Victor Davis Hansen’s new piece on Iraq is (as you would expect) must-read:

    http://claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1500/article_detail.asp

    It discusses the “mistakes” and “bad management” of Iraq… in historical perspective. Something that Americans today seem to lack.

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