Support Our Troops Through Positive Action

Treats For Troops is an organization that packs and sends Christmas and special gift packages to our troops. It provides a variety of different priced gift packages and several options outlined in their literature. It even has gifts and decorations for troops whose birthday falls during the holiday season. Many military members and units have registered with TFT, hoping to have a bit of Christmas from home. Some of their photos are published on the site. (Check out those broad smiles - so happy to be remembered). Donors and recipients may correspond but for security's sake, all correspondence goes through TFT. If you are interested in offering this type of support for our troops, please read the entire newsletter at: http://imperial-sacrifices.blogspot.com .
On the right sidebar is a >> for photo gallery,, also index, collage of troopers, and a few photos and thank you letters. Check out the links. I fully support the project; I fully support our military members even if I hate the war! WA
[So far all the photos have been published on both IE and Mozilla browsers; sometimes they print but later just display white squares with red x in upper left corner, to my intense annoyance. I don't know why it does that]

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In the patriotic fervor after 9-11 and the war on Iraq began, Churches, various organizations, colleges, groups and individuals made up hundreds of CARE packages to send to our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Americans discovered how they had been deceived and tricked into supporting the war, a large percentage of them became anti-war. Although most avowed that they continued to support the troops, the flow of CARE packages slowed to a trickle and even dried up.

My grandson Gene (Country Boy) just returned to the States from his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq and he commented on this. He said, "when I first went over there, we got several big boxes a month," and named off goodies in the boxes. "This second time, we hardly ever got anything, maybe just a box of cookies from a mom, and that didn't go far when divided among the guys in my unit. Looks like everybody just forgot about us."

Holidays are a hard, lonely time for troops away from home and family in a foreign country. Their lonliness and depression is exacerbated by the feeling that they are forgotten and unappreciated. Many have come to believe that anti-war equates to anti-troops. Depression and unhappiness are dangerous mental attitudes in the situations they experience and can make them not as alert as they need to be, increasing the possibility of becoming a casualty.

In anti-war discussions wherein people say they still support the troops, I ask them HOW they support the troops. Invariably they look puzzled and merely reiterate the statement; they support the troops in principle but not actively, and say they don't know how.

The TFT is late with their newsletter this year but I immediately began showing it to people and asking if they want to participate. Many hedge, saying money is tight. I know money is tight and probably few have it as tight as I do on my limited, fixed income. But even I can afford one of the $9.99 packages. In order to provide a larger package, I asked friends and relatives (my long suffering relatives who yield to my obsessions) to contribute the cost of one small package - scarcely $10. When all are added to one order, it provides Christmas cheer to a number of troops. It doesn't matter if the packages are late in arriving; better late than never and always welcomed and appreciated.

Anyone desiring to send Christmas to our troops, please access the url and find out how. If you cannot afford much, try to enlist friends, family and co-workers to contribute to one large order. Our military members cannot come home for Christmas but we can send Christmas to them and let them know the home folks support them.