Christmas Cards for Recovering Troops

[zipper]

I got this at work today, and I knew just which group of people would love to help out some recovering troops. If you would like to send a Christmas card to an injured American Soldier please send to:

A Recovering American soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington,D.C. 20307-5001


By the way, if you don't have Christmas cards, I'm sure a plain old letter would work too

[icehog3]

Great cause, thanks for posting this.

[DriftyGypsy]

Give me a minute to look it up, but this has been circling the internet for a couple of months and unfortunately will not work.


Found it on SNOPES


HOWEVER Here is an idea

[zipper]

Originally Posted by DriftyGypsy

Give me a minute to look it up, but this has been circling the internet for a couple of months and unfortunately will not work.


Found it on SNOPES

You're right...found it. Sorry about that

http://www.snopes.com/politics/chris...ldiercards.asp

You can send them to the Red Cross though, and they'll forward it to the troops:

We Support You During Your Recovery!
c/o American Red Cross
PO Box 419 Savage, MD 20763-0419

[glking]

The military will not deliver any mail not addressed to a specific individual.

[rumballs]

Related... A way to send letters to troops who are still in Iraq or Afghanistan is through:
http://www.anysoldier.com/

Basically they maintain a list of contacts. When those contacts receive mail, they will give it to someone in their unit, especially if there's someone who isn't getting a lot of mail from friends or family...