Christmas card for a hero ...
Thanks so much for ALL your support this past year with my efforts to support our valiant heroes, both on the battlefield, or here at “home”. Earlier today on my layover, I had the blessed opportunity to visit some of our Wounded Warriors at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center and participate in a Christmas party thrown by Operation Homefront at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in WA DC. While at both hospitals, I specifically asked what happens to cards where the envelope arrives without a specific person on it.
The response at both locations was the same. Since 9/11 and the threat of anthrax, any letters/cards/packages sent to a Military facility without a specific name, are destroyed. On the internet many people email and say “send a card to “any soldier” or “any wounded hero”. Please know these fall into the above category.
If you or anyone you know wants to (and please, I encourage you to do so!!!) write a Wounded service member, please feel free to send them to me, (or any legitimate organization who says they will deliver them for you, there are plenty of them on the internet) and I will be happy to either hand deliver them to Walter Reed, Bethesda, or forward them on to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany or the Combat Surgical Hospital in Afghanistan. Our troops need and deserve our support and a card is such an easy way to uplift someone’s spirits. Just write on the envelope “service member” or “wounded warrior” or something like that, and I will know NOT to open it. CARDS for CHRISTMAS must be received no later than 13December for Christmas delivery. Anything received after this date will still be sent, it will just get there a little late. (I accept cards all year round to support our Wounded Warriors).
Just this week I know there are 7 service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving our Nation, from the units I am personally supporting in Iraq and Afghanistan. My thoughts and prayers are with each of those families and all of those who are suffering from the effects of terrorism. May there one day soon be Peace On Earth.
Thanks so much for helping me spread this information across the airwaves, and a huge shout out to my personal heroes reading this message.
Happy Holidays …. and remember, if you are a service member who needs support, or you are someone who would like to adopt a hero, please go to : http://adoptahero.us/ and sign up!!!
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Hi,
My name is Leah Lyons and I am a drama teacher at Indiana Area Senior High School. My students would like to write cards to our wounded heroes. Are you still delivering them to the hospitals listed above? Please let me know so that we can continue our project.
Thanks so much.
Leah
Leah, thank you for your enthusiasm to have your students write cards to our Wounded Warriors. This year any cards I receive for Wounded Warriors will be sent to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The address you can send any cards to our troops for me to include in care packages (for deployed service members or Wounded Warriors would need to be separated so I know which units or locations to send to) is:
Robin Schmidt
PO Box 16796
Seattle, WA 98116
Landstuhl is the first place our wounded heroes go from the battlefield and either transition back to their units in field or come home for further treatment.
Thank you,
Robin
Robin, last year my church collected and sent Christmas cards to be distributed to wounded warriors. The agency I mailed them to apparently is no longer doing this, so I need to find out if you still are. I will have probably 200 or more ready to send out by next Monday, and I want to make certain someone can arrange for delivery of these to the brave men and women who are healing from their wounds. They have bravely sacrificed for us here at home, and need to be reminded that they are not forgotten. Please let me know as soon as you can. Thank you very much.
Lea w.
Lea, I send care packages out every year to deployed service members. When I do this project again, I will post a new blog on my website. Sorry I did not see your comment until now. Thanks much, Robin
Leah, my address has changed.
PO Box 1494, Mercer Island, WA 98040