How can we show our troops in iraq our support?
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There are countless organizations that specialize in supporting the troops. This is the official site from the Department of Defense that gives you links to such organizations. Just sending small items can mean a lot to some people.\n\nhttp://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/index.aspx
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Support our Troops! - Bring them Home NOW!
1123745
I would tell our troops thank you for doing a job that so many people are a fraid to do!\nI would tell them that they are brave for fighting a war that so many people believe is an unjust war!\n I would thank their families for being unselfish and  allowing there family member to fight for the rights of their country!\n I would tell their children to be brave and do not be mad at the parent for having to leave! \nI would thell the spouse to love and support them even though they are not home to help with the problems and continue to love and support them when they come home and they are not the same person who left!\nI would tell them that it is ok to be scared!\nAND;;;\nFinally I would tell them to BE SAFE and come home to their families!\n\nThe soldiers are doing more than any person can ever be asked to do----Defending there country! I am so proud to be an American!
669009
I would like to help, they need our support.
1015068
As a soldier, I am getting sick of not seeing my spouse. We have been seperated for 14 months. We both serve - him in Afghanistan and myself to Iraq. That being said, being in Iraq and seeing it first hand, I know that we cannot pull troops out of Iraq until stability is reached and the Iraqi government can sustain themselves. Unfortunately this will take years.
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I have to say other than pay my taxes I have done NOTHING to support the current war effort in Iraq, but have supported it in Afghanistan.  I have friends serving in both locations and I remind them as often as we can email that regardless of how people feel about the wars I will NOT let them return to the "welcome" our vietnam veterans got.  I also discuss (that's right discuss) my views with others who share them and don't share them. I have learned a lot and they have too.\n\n(Remember, supporting our troops who are doing their job is NOT the same as supporting the wars.)
922446
I would like to see a larger army as well. But our troops are the best\nthere are any where.
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The troops banner has been in a few newspapers. However if anyone truly wants to see their uniwue way of sending their personal message to Kerry, feel free to email me. I HAVE THE REAL DEAL from my nephew who is in the army.\nThursday, November 02, 2006\nU.S. troops in Iraq stick it to Kerry with funny photo\nBAGHDAD (CNN) -- A widely-circulated photo from soldiers in Iraq pokes fun at the recent "stuck" in Iraq comments by Sen. John Kerry, with a U.S. military spokesman telling CNN on Thursday "it was a humorous response to ongoing remarks."\n\nThe picture was taken on Wednesday morning in Iraq by service members of the 1st Brigade 34th Infantry Division at Tallil Airbase, which is near Nasiriya in southern Iraq.\n\nEight soldiers are shown holding a banner that says "HALP US JON CARRY -WE R STUCK HEAR N IRAK. The "k" in "stuck" is the written backwards.\n\nSpeaking at a campaign rally in California on Monday, Kerry said: "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."\n\nHis remarks created a firestorm across the country, with people incensed over what was taken as a negativecharacterization of the U.S. troops in Iraq.\n\nKerry said he didn't mean to say that, pointing out that a prepared statement was "mangled." He issued a written apology Wednesday, saying he "never intended" to disparage U.S. troops with a "poorly stated joke."\n\nThe U.S. military spokesman said: "They were having some fun."\nPosted 11/02/2006 10:17:00 AM | Permalink
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I am in the Air Force. My job is toe load the F-15 fighter jet with bombs and missles, etc. and to do mechanical and electrical work. I might be deploying soon, too....so that's how I support them.\n\nAlso, I go to anysoldier.com  and   letssaythanks.com  and donate things and send (FREE) cards to soldiers
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Personaly the "Support our troops" Sticker is not all you can do. I am an american soldier and i do not even own one. I do not think that spending 2 dollars for a sticker saying i support them is enough. I think that the best way of proving that you support somthing is if you go out there and do it. I am still in high school but as soon as I am MOSQed i will be over there fighting with everyone else. I dont think that the soldiers would care if you did not have the sticker on. If you really want to help go talk to a local recruting base and ask them how you would go about writing a soldier over seas and raise there moral.
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1 Show Bush they are a good ally by sending 2000 soldiers\n2 Retire when a new president who didn't have a complex towards the US was elected
1138110
Supporting the troops can simply mean you support their quick & safe return home. After all, that's what we want, right?
1030407
Amen sister! There's so much heated emotion over poitics that the troops are looked at as the bad guys.  Yes, I Support our troops. I hope they make it through their days over there. I hope they come home, and will welcome them when they return. While they're there, I pray that they know, we're thinking about them, and care about them. Don't forget they're our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, etc.
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Yes, you can support the military but not the war.  You have to contact your senators and congressmen to bring our youth home.\n\nYou can do this right on the net.  Sent them an email.  This site will find your representatives for you.\n\nhttp://www.congress.org
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transfer them to Iraq
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First\nThank you for doing this!!!! We currently sponsor 5 groups of soldiers across afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nwww.anysoldier.com\n\nits the best site we found for being able to search and read descriptions etc.. covers ALL branches of soldier overseas\n\nNow for mailing.. we are pro;s at this now\n\nNo mailing of wax items, crayons or chocolate anything between May and Nov\n\nIt melts and you get liquid pacakges\n\nSoldiers are told not to eat homebaked  or unwrapped items.. so if you send these you take a good chance on having them not eaten.\n\nOur groups are 1/2 way through deployment and we know them now and will be seing homemade xmas foods... but they will take now and would not have 6 mos ago before they knew us.\n\nMost soldiers have some way to email.. some have laptops with daily access others dont have reg access... Include and email address with your packages,, many will email back..\n\nWe love our emails and pictures\n\nDo not send stamps as mail for them is free to send out\n\nDVD's unless  a soldier specifically asks for it are a waste of time as they sell bootleg copies over there for 1.00 new releases!  The Black market  is alive and well in Iraq!\n\nEach soldier will put items out on the site they would like etc... We avoid the long lists or lists with silly items.... The bottom line is... they are thrilled with just letters  , and many dont get mail.\n\nWe look for FOB's Forward operating bases or other more remote soldiers over ones on reg bases... these are the guys who dont have access to PX's ( stores) etc...\n\nMOST have chow halls called KBR's but some dont... \n\nThings we send to our guys are Microwaves stuff anf popcorn.. we also tape to DVD weekly shows they are missing like CSI and NCIS they like those.. we send Hard candy  , does nto melt and can be passed out to local kids..\nwe send Pnut butter, crackers, Powdered drink mixes like gatorade, T pastes, soaps,Jerky,\nChex mix, Pringles as they dont get crushed like a bag would, etc...Cookies\n\nOK so for mailing..... Dont mix food and toiletries.... even if you put stuff in baggies the food will taste like soap\n\nWe have mailed t paste with food though put it in ziplocs\nDont mail anything in a glass jar or that can break.... If it can leak, explode or break... IT WILL\n\nSo how much does it cost to mail???????\nWell you dont pay shippin to Iraq!\n\nYou pay shipping costs from where ever you live to NY. In NY it is handed off to the Military Postal system and they fly it overseas,, then it is sorted again by the APO or location and trtucked off to those places as soon as they can safely get it there.\n\nOur experience is ... about 3 weeks til arrival ..\nThere are 2 types of  ways to mail a package at the post office.. Priority and SAM ( space Avail Mail)  SAM is cheaper but can take longer to get to the soldiers.. SAM means once the plane is full and all 1st priority mail is loaded they shove any SAM mail in that will fit ...\nThe Post office will tell you it will never get to the soldier if you send SAM but thats not true...\nSAM mail is cheaper to send and good if its heavy or you can wait  for it to go... it will get to th em.. we have sent both ways... and sincec most of our guys only get mail runs every 2-3 weeks it did not matter.\n\nWhen you pack it ,,make sure you put stuff on the slip..if for soe reason you DO send DVD's DONT list it on the packing slip.. makes your box a target to get stolen!  If you ask post ofice about this they will say you HAVE to list it... so dont ask.. they dont go through the boxes and if you list it it may not get there... this is advice right from the soldiers.. they know.\n\n ALso there will be a box that says if package is undeliverable what do yu want done?? Instead of putting  our return in there to get it back.. we put another Units Address on there so if hte unit we were sending to is gone or cant be found it goes to another one!\n\n   ALso pack your items in plain cardboard or a pos
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You can send a message to the terrorists/insurgents in Iraq by voting for Republicans straight down the ballot!\n\nThe liberal press has been reporting the war in Iraq as a disaster because of the continual efforts by terrorist to violently kill as many innocent civilians. The liberal press has followed on that effort by predicting a large victory by Democrats to repudiate the war.\n\nIf people unite and vote Republicans, it will send the signal that we're not buying the enemies propaganda, and we're staying the course. They can stop killing because it does them no good. And since our troops continue to defeat them head-on in battle, they can cease and desist and try to become part of Iraq's democratic process....\n\nEnd the war. Vote Republican!