This year when sending your Christmas cards, please take one card and send it to this address.
If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much will receive. When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington , D.C. 20307-5001
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND THEIR FAMILIES BACK HOME.
P.S.
Hi Mods, I know duplicate threads are not allowed, but do you think an exception could be made for this thread, so I can get the word out?
Thanks
Last edited by rjensen3; 12-02-2009 at 04:30 PM.
Reason: UPDATE
I have a friend who works in the Pentagon and included this account of wounded soldiers who are brought into the Pentagon in a recent email:
Yes, it's true. Periodically, they bring in the wounded from Bethesda and Walter Reed. I've only seen it once. Honestly, I got so choked up I couldn't do it again. Seeing all those young, wounded, quiet solders and Marines being escorted through the halls with hundreds of Pentagon staff lining the way applauding is so touching and moving. There is so much love and support for these kids who have given so much. Sometimes I feel ashamed of myself for being so emotional about this. I guess ever since 9/11 this building has seen so much sorrow and pride it effects everyone. I have seen many of the staff stand there saluting and applauding with tears in their eyes.
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Originally Posted by JohnsC5
I have a friend who works in the Pentagon and included this account of wounded soldiers who are brought into the Pentagon in a recent email:
Yes, it's true. Periodically, they bring in the wounded from Bethesda and Walter Reed. I've only seen it once. Honestly, I got so choked up I couldn't do it again. Seeing all those young, wounded, quiet solders and Marines being escorted through the halls with hundreds of Pentagon staff lining the way applauding is so touching and moving. There is so much love and support for these kids who have given so much. Sometimes I feel ashamed of myself for being so emotional about this. I guess ever since 9/11 this building has seen so much sorrow and pride it effects everyone. I have seen many of the staff stand there saluting and applauding with tears in their eyes.
It's a great thing to see.
Thank you very much for sharing this - you shouldn't be ashamed for caring . . . for being a decent, stand-up kind of guy; rather all the short-sighted, bleeding heart, whiney-ass liberals should be the ones to feel shame. It is a truly heart breaking scene you describe. That's why our military is always in my prayers.
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