I realize Veteran’s Day is a couple weeks away yet but it’s a good time to think about ways to helps support our country’s veterans. Of course there are a number of charities to donate to but there are others ways to help too.
1. Write a letter. There are plenty of soldiers and veterans that appreciate friendly correspondence from home. If you don’t know who to write to there are plenty of sites that can help you send it to a soldier who’d love some mail. Sites like anysoldier.com, AMillionThanks.org, and SoldiersAngels.org just to name a few. Another option could be to contact local churches to see if any of their members are serving.
2. Make a Care box for a soldier or veteran. You can find guidelines for what to send on the sites for letter writing I listed above. You can call your local veterans home to see if they accept donations for their residents.
3. Consider a nice gesture . Soldiers and veterans make sacrifices for our country every day from long periods of time away from family to putting themselves where many of us wouldn’t want to be to protect our country. If you see a solider on leave for example maybe consider offering to pay for their meal or something along those lines with a note of thank you.
4. Just say thanks for your service. Take a minute to walk up to a veteran or soldier and tell them thanks, shake their hand, whatever your thing is.
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I know it’s early but I also wanted to take a minute to tell my hubby how I admire him for how far he’s come in life. My husband is a veteran of the Iraq War and Kosovo. He served for 6 years.
My husband is a veteran of the Vietnam war and many others. He served for 25 years.
Great ideas! I always like to do something nice for Veteran’s Day in my dad’s memory because he was a veteran! 🙂