Holiday Mail For Heroes Kicks Off With Cards For Veterans Washington Event

WASHINGTON — Dozens of volunteers and passers-by are stopping by an American Red Cross building on Veterans Day to sign holiday greetings cards for U.S soldiers around the world and veterans.

The event in Washington kicks off a program called Holiday Mail for Heroes. A Defense Department policy requires that ordinary mail addressed to "any soldier" must be returned to the sender. But this program lets the public send holiday greeting cards that aren't addressed to a particular service member.

The cards will be screened, sorted and distributed to military hospitals and bases nationally and overseas as well as to veterans and military family members.

The public can send greeting cards through December 7 to Holiday Mail for Heroes, P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, Md., 20791-5456.

Comments

[janeycat]

I always have left over Christmas cards every year and buy more because i cant remember who i sent what card to and don't want to send the same card 2 years in a row to someone...
I have quite a few nice cards that i am going to send to them . it might make our solders feel a little better getting a card when they have to be so far from home.
I will mail them all together in a large 2nd day envelope at the first of December , it will take me that long o fill them all out...

I hope everyone here will do the same...not that many people mail cards anymore because of email..
but there is something special about getting a surprise in the mail..i'm not that old but i still love to write letters and receive letters.

God bless all of our solders on this memorial day,present and past...we appreciate all that you have done and all that you do now..
Peace