cards for soliders
 

When doing your Christmas cards this year, 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
would get. 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

If you approve, please pass it on.

Thanks!

thank you all :)

Good Idea, Diva! :stillheart:

Thank you for posting this info. I always have tons of extra cards and I can't think of a better use for them. I had so much fun sending a bunch of Christmas cards to the soldiers.

I was thinking the same thing!

One of my exes was deployed to Iraq twice while we were dating and I became an avid letter writer. I have a special place in my heart for our soldiers and am glad to have a small way to thank them for their sacrifice. I am definitely going to make this a habit!

http://adoptaussoldier.org is a great organization through which you can adopt active duty deployed soldiers to write letters and if you want, send packages (and they give recent, updated addresses). i used to volunteer for them.

soldier's angels is another great organization, though they require that you make a commitment of sending packages as well as letters on a regular basis.

anysoldier.org is a great site but it's more for adopting entire groups of soldiers and also tends to emphasize packages (though some soldiers just ask for letters).

unforunately you cannot mail cards to "any soldier," and as far as i know that goes for deployed soldiers as well as soldiers recovering at walter reed. you MUST have a particular name. in the case of sites like anysoldier.org, the package or letter is addressed to the leader of the group of soldiers who will then distribute them to any soldier in the group.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/walterreed.asp

if you're not interested in doing this on a regular basis and just want to do something nice as a one-off thing, cup of joe for a joe is a great program to buy coffee for soldiers and you can include a note/e-card with the coffee. sometimes you get responses back.
http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/

no problem! the rules about military mail and soldier adoption can be kind of confusing, and some of the programs are reputable and some not so reputable, so i'm happy to be able to help.