It has been years and years since I got my act together enough to actually send out Christmas cards. AS much as people complain about holiday cards, I discovered that if you don't send them you do lose track of people in your life. This year I am determined to reverse that trend if I can. I am GOing to send out cards this year. Not a lot, but some. Not with fancy letters, but at least with a sentence above my signature. Try using Google or Facebook or Anywho.com to track down someone you have lost track of and using the excuse of a holiday to reconnect.
More important I am sending out a bunch of cards to people I don't even know. Consider this possibility for you and your kids to do with some of those leftover Christmas and Hannukah cards buried in boxes somewhere amid the holiday trappings. I am not in favor of war. However I separate the policy of wars from the men and women who sacrifice so much to make a positive difference in the world. The Red Cross sponsors a
special program that will accept and distribute cards with the blessing and cooperation of the mail service, the military, and even hospitals. Make it a new tradition to use some of your card sending as a blessing to people you don't even know. Send each one addressed to:
Holiday Mail For Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456
PLEASE note: Cards sent to "A Recovering American Soldier" or "Any soldier" etc. absolutely will not and
CANNOT be delivered [example: those recommended for the Walter Reed Army Med. Ctr that seems to pop up online each year]
"Federal law and postal regulations will not allow mail addressed to “Recovering Soldiers” or “Any Service member” to be delivered."
Make a real difference for people who gave up a lot in the hopes of making a real difference for others.
Image credits:
kikipotamus.wordpress.com, army.mil, redcross.com
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