Great gift !

I found this really great idea - bird house kits for recovering soldiers too build.

See it here on ETSY and buy!

More messages to our troops

The AP reported today that letters addressed to "any wounded soldier" are being discarded or destroyed.

Here is another website where you can post messages to our brave troops:

http://www4.arm.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers

More messages to our troops

The AP reported today that letters addressed to "any wounded soldier" are being discarded r destroyed.

Here is another website where you can post messages to our brave troops:

http://www4.arm.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers

Giving Thanks

Xerox has an easy way to give thanks to our troops in Iraq

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html

Happy Birthday to the Marines!

Check out this great birthday greeting to the Marine Corp from Godaddy

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2007/playmovie.asp?isc=gdm1113

lessons

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in LittleRock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent and the principal, she took all of the desks out of the classroom. The students came into first period and discovered there were no desks. They looked around and asked, "Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?" She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them".
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades". "No," she answered. "Maybe it's our behavior." She told them, "No, it's not your behavior".And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the classroom. Second period, same thing and third period--no desks.
By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were, at this time, sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. She stated to her students, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that ordinarily sit in this classroom". She added, "Now I'm going to show you".
Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty seven U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. They placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the walls. By the time they had finished placing the desks, those kids, for the first time, understood how they earned those desks.
FREEDOM!
Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly and learn to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price for you to have that desk to sit in and to have the opportunity to learn".Our soldiers serve their country, their families, and the untold students in our classrooms all over the USA.
Thank a soldier by praying for their safety and their mission. May they come home to their families soon. God bless and have mercy upon our country and each of its citizens, you and me included.

Holiday thoughts

One of my friends knows a doctor at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Many recovering soldiers would be thrilled to receive a holiday greeting. I'm certain other military hospitals have the same need.
here is the address for Walter Reed:

A Recovering American Soldier
C/O Walter Reed Army Hospital
6700 Georgia Ave NW
Washington DC 20307-5001

I know I always have a couple of cards left in the box- now I know what to do with them!

Tribute to the Marines

I just received an email form godaddy.com with a very nice tribute they have created:

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2006/playmovie.asp?isc=gdh1111