Thousands of men and women are fighting or stationed overseas in many different countries. They are away from home, they're families and loved ones. Many of them get injured or pay the ultimate sacrifice with their lives.

What are you doing to show your support to the troops?

Do you know of any ways(organizations, groups, events, clubs, etc)for others that want to help to get involved? Share your ideas.

Note: Please, whether you are against the war or not, this thread is only to talk about ways of showing support to the troops as a whole. I understand that many of you are passionate about that topic, but please do so in other threads that are about that. Thank you.

There are some really good links here. I also think Cell Phones for Soldiers is a great org-- allowing troops to call home from pre-paid phone cards. http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/

A Million Thanks and other related campaigns are very cool. My husband was just deployed in Iraq for seven months, and he got a big batch of letters from elementary school kids. Most of them were super cute, and then one said, "Dear soldier, thank you for sacrificing your life." Eek, I hope not, kid!

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How about to solve these problems we use the peace corp

riiiight.... cause sending english majors to countries and teaching people how to farm who have been farming for untold millenia is productive.

The various starvations world wide are great examples. Ethiopia being the big one coming to mind, the peace corps is there but still people starve, because their government is working directly to kill them. All the good intentions in the world don't fix an issue like that... tanks on the other hand...

Guess what? Like most Americans I'm not doing shit. and again like most Americans I don't care. How about to solve these problems we use the peace corp and not the army corp.

Best way to show your support:

http://www.goarmy.com

And another one...(sorry, triple post)

Operation Support Our Troops

I found another one...

America Supports You

This website basically just has a bunch of ways to support the troops.

Why does she have to be gone? Why? I hate you, God. I wanted to help, but how can I now? I hate you.

Thank you, InvisibleGirl. I will make sure to check them out.

These are the web addresses:
4thetroops - www.4thetroops.net
Christmas For Troops - www.truetroops.org
Adopt a Platoon - www.adoptaplatoon.org
Any Soldier - www.anysoldier.com
A Million Thanks - http://www.amillionthanks.org/
Operation Gratitude - www.opgratitude.com
Operation Homefront Hugs - www.homefronthugs.com
Operation Troop Aid - http://www.operationtroopaid.org/

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I'm joining them

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4theTroops - Coordinates the shipments of supplies, goods and gifts to our servicemembers abroad.
Christmas for Troops - Paying Tribute to our Military Troops During the Holidays.
Adopt a Platoon - Support the troops through gifts and sponsored mail.
Any Soldier - Sponsor care packages to servicemembers in Iraq.
A Million Thanks - Collects emails and letters of appreciation for our armed forces.
Operation Gratitude - Contribute to care packages sent to our servicemembers.
Operation Homefront Hugs - Contribute to care packages, or adopt a servicemember.
Operation Troop Aid - Provide care packages for our deployed U.S. Servicemembers.

That is awesome. Do you have the website addresses for the organizations that you mentioned?

I'm joining them

Our youth leader is out of town, (I tried to call), so I don't know which organization we used, but these were some that one of my old teachers gave me:

4theTroops - Coordinates the shipments of supplies, goods and gifts to our servicemembers abroad.
Christmas for Troops - Paying Tribute to our Military Troops During the Holidays.
Adopt a Platoon - Support the troops through gifts and sponsored mail.
Any Soldier - Sponsor care packages to servicemembers in Iraq.
A Million Thanks - Collects emails and letters of appreciation for our armed forces.
Operation Gratitude - Contribute to care packages sent to our servicemembers.
Operation Homefront Hugs - Contribute to care packages, or adopt a servicemember.
Operation Troop Aid - Provide care packages for our deployed U.S. Servicemembers.

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Although, sometimes it is natural that you don't hear from them for some time, trust me, I know. So don't panic.

Thanks. I guess I was just scared.

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Could you try and find out for others who may want to get involved?

Yeah, I'll ask my leader at our next meeting.

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I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not, but I know a girl who is currently stationed in Iraq - she was like my big sister. My family writes her letters a lot, and sends her things she needs because her family does not really support her decision to be in the army. I have not heard from her in a while though...I hope she's not... No. She can't be. She was like my sister. Oh, God...please... Sorry. That's not really what you wanted for this thread.

I would personally suggest that you Google her name. If something happened(which I really hope didn't) it should be on the papers. Or you can check out this site:

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/valorsearch.php

Although, sometimes it is natural that you don't hear from them for some time, trust me, I know. So don't panic.

On that page you can search someone by dates or by name.

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Also, at my youth group in church, there is an organization (I'm not sure of the name)

Could you try and find out for others who may want to get involved?

I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not, but I know a girl who is currently stationed in Iraq - she was like my big sister. My family writes her letters a lot, and sends her things she needs because her family does not really support her decision to be in the army. I have not heard from her in a while though...I hope she's not... No. She can't be. She was like my sister. Oh, God...please... Sorry. That's not really what you wanted for this thread.

Also, at my youth group in church, there is an organization (I'm not sure of the name) that sends us names of soldiers in Iraq, and we make them Christmas cards, or Thanksgiving or Valentine's Day, or just write them letters. That is really neat because sometimes they actually write back.