Soldiers Angels

From Hugh Hewitt’s web site, an e-mail from SoldiersAngels:

"I wanted to let you know that our Adoptions Unit has been swamped over the last 3 days. We have processed over 900 adoptions in the last 72 hours...

We are working really hard on a couple of projects right now:

Operation Armor Up - We purchase and send KEVLAR blankets to soldiers in combat zones. The soldiers use these armored blankets to line the doors and floorboards of their Humvee's and personnel carriers to protect them from direct fire and exploding IED's. These blankets cost $925 and in the last week, we have purchased 6 to send over into the combat zones.

Operation PC - We are working with a Colonel at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas to purchase PC's for wounded soldiers to use while in the hospital and take home with them so that they can keep in touch with their units back in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Backpacks for the Wounded - We provide backpacks full of personal items, toiletries and love to our soldiers returning from battle injured and alone. Many times these soldiers are evacuated without their personal items, and they cherish what we are able to provide. We include a special handmade blanket which provides them with some security after the horrors they have experienced.

These are just some of the many projects we are currently working on in addition to our normal activities such as providing calling cards to soldiers so that they can keep in touch with their loved ones back home, purchasing plane tickets for families and heroes to reunite, dedicating living trees to those who have fallen, and much more."

So dear friends, don’t forget to sign up at Soldiers Angels to adopt a soldier. Melanie told me at Starbucks this morning that she already has done so after seeing my post on 6/29 (Lessons of September 11th). Way to go Mel!!!