March 14, 2003
We can support the troops without supporting the war.
How?
Here are a couple of causes. (I'm sure there are many many more.)
The Uniting Through Reading program "helps keep parents and children connected while separated during long deployments, through the medium of reading aloud on videotape."
And the Red Cross is sponsoring a program to help support the families of servicemen and servicewomen.
"From distributing Red Cross comfort kits, to collecting items for goodie bags to be shipped overseas, to giving Beanie Babies to children of deployed service personnel, Red Cross chapters nationwide have developed innovative methods to meet the unique needs of an uncertain time."
And one of the biggest ways to "support the troops" is through supporting veterans. The late Paul Wellstone was not the biggest fan of this war (or any war), but he always always always found ways to contribute to veteran's causes.
eric 8:41 PM
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