Several months ago, I shared a link to “Let’s Say Thanks,” a Xerox-partnered website that allows you to send a post-card to a random military member serving overseas.
They could not have made it any easier: choose a card design, give your name, select a pre-created message OR type one of your own, and click “submit.” Your personal information cannot/will not be shared, and there is ABSOLUTELY NO COST to you.
The postcards are printed in batches and mailed out in care packages put together by their partner. There are several things I love about this:
- many people who do think about sending a note out to military members serving overseas do not know where to start;
- some generous-hearted people do not have the funds to show their generosity;
- well-intentioned people are not always organized enough to follow through with their intentions;
- and most of all, each of the postcards designs (mostly patriotic scenes) was submitted by a child.
These things all make me happy.
I encourage all of you to please, please, please take a moment out of your day to send a card (or 20!). Thanking our military members is not something to be done only on holidays. They are dedicated to sacrificing everything in their lives, daily.
Please remember to take time out throughout the year to do something thoughtful in return.
xoxo
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P.S. Don’t forget to stop by and donate a few buckaroos to help my friend Aidan and the rest of Team Taji in their efforts to collect enough school supplies for children to be able to attend the school they are helping to rebuild.
xoox
