DO YOU WANT TO HELP SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND NOT SURE HOW?
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Operation Healing Angel USA and Europe due to an urgent plea from a medical worker at Landstuhl Hospital where our wounded first go in Germany, we are collecting letters and cards from individuals and groups- children and adults- young and old...
for our wounded and their awesome caregivers : the nurses and physicians (also military heroes) who care for the most serious of injuries in heroes ( brain injury and spinal cord )every day with honor and grace. They are heroes themselves.
SEND, SEND,SEND- GRAB A STAMP AND HELP PLEASE TO BRING A SMILE AND SHARE A HUG WITH THESE HEROES.
IT ONLY TAKES A PIECE OF PAPER, A HOMEMADE CARD, A POSTCARD AND A 39 CENT STAMP !!! YES_ you can send to our wounded through us too as we will make sure it gets screened and gets there...we have the largest hospital now under our wing in Iraq !
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I spoke to a nurse named Chris on 8-21-06 who was overwhelmed that anyone even thought of them at the Tampa VA Hospital...so please- send cards and letters- you can even include a gift card for the units to spend on their teams to help the shifts go by more easily...in any amount...It can be to Wal-mart or Publix grocery stores ...but this is optional.
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You can also even send a care package of edible goodies and bright pens and clipboards and calendars for the medical staff if you wish...The troops would love DVDs,music CDs,soft comfy socks,postcards from the USA and cards.
Send them to us:
Alessandra Kellermann
Homefront Hugs USA
"Operation Healing Angel"
1449 Tiger Lake Drive
Gulf Breeze, Florida 32563
Please share this with all so we can get a huge response also in 2008.
with any questions or to register as a volunteer if you plan to participate. You will even receive a volunteer card !
You can also just help us with postage costs when sending on to the troops in
the hospitals- each of our boxes cost $8.95- and we have to send them on to secure addresses we cannot share with you:
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HERE ARE SOME MORE SUPER IDEAS:
5. Write our wounded and send them care packages THROUGH US .
Email us with subject: Wounded Heroes and we will give you the necessary info.
6. Encourage a friend or family member to volunteer with you to make a difference.
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7. Join us IN SPRING 2008 as we prepare for the 2008 Hurricane Season with our THIRD annual Homefront Hurricane Hugs program...we need you now. This is a super family or group project.
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8. Consider adopting a soldier, a soldier and his or her family, or a unit of soldiers at
OUR NEW ADOPTION PROGRAM.... we need you !
YOU ARE NEEDED!! It is rewarding whether you hear back or not .
7. Sponsor a care package through the USO- here since WWII - tax deductible:
8. Donate to the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance fund for the 1st responders - our troops in the Coast Guard who lost their homes too as they rescued all of us... they will be our heroes once again this 2007 season and still deserve our support!
9. Donate to Fisher House- 3 wonderful ways below:
Your gift will be used to help meet the cost of lodging for a family whose loved one was injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. There is a limit to the number of families who can stay in a Fisher House. We are committed to help provide lodging for families who must find commercial lodging, because the Fisher House is full.
Fisher House supports military personnel wounded in action and those seriously ill being treated in military hospitals in the U.S. and overseas. Your donation of "Gifts from the Homefront" certificates will ease the burden for military personnel and their families at a most stressful time in their lives.
Fisher House is proud to be one of a select group of national organizations participating in special program that provides military families in need with gift certificates that can be used to buy food and staples through the commissary (the military's grocery store). Your gift help meet the basic needs of a family during a stressful time.
10. Donate to Wounded Warriors - click here:
11. Donate to TAPS - Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors- click here:
12. Donate to Homes for Our Troops:
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16. GIFTS FROM THE HOMEFRONT
Anyone can purchase an exchange gift certificate, which can be redeemed by our heroes - Servicemembers at any AAFES PX/BX facility in the world including more than 55 locations scattered throughout Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. “Gifts from the Homefront” gift certificates are available at
http://www.aafes.com/ or 877-770-4438.
“Gifts from the Homefront” can be sent to a specific Soldier, Airmen, Sailor, Marine or Coast Guard member or addressed to the attention of “Any Service Member.” AAFES works in cooperation with charitable organizations such as the American Red Cross, Air Force Aid Society, Fisher House and USO to distribute support ear marked for “any service member.”
16. USO Operation Phone Home ( help our heroes keep in touch with loved ones)
17. A sincere plea from the social worker at Tripler:
Our longterm wounded need phone cards and small care packages with toiletries and magazines,baked goods and candy...
Send MCI phone cards only...if anyone wants something quick and easy to do- stuff a calling card into a GET WELL card....and send a nice wish to our longterm wounded at Tripler in Hawaii.....:
Tripler Army Medical Center
c/o Lydia Ortiz ( for any wounded hero)
GWOT Office
Patient Administration
1 Jarrett White RD
Honolulu, HI 96859
They would be so grateful to remembered again this year !! Hopefully they will write back- but no promises...thanks so much!
Here's a link to order MCI cards specifically :
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Homefront Hugs USA and its programs does not endorse any political party or candidate. We are here strictly to provide support and comfort to our service members,veterans and their families, regardless of political or religious affiliation. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or politics in accordance with our United States constitution and in honor of our troops and veterans worldwide who come from all walks of life to serve our country with honor, great personal sacrifice and courage.
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