eMOM: “Supporting Our Military, One eMail At A Time.”
Not knowing anyone serving in the military, I must admit has made it far too easy to overlook the sacrifices our servicemen and servicewomen are making to serve for our country. What they are going through and coming home to is without-a-doubt underappreciated, unrecognized, and way undersupported.
As with the “Green” movement, sometimes it takes some of us a little longer to be fully aware of the circumstances and effects of what’s going on around us. We get caught up in our own lives and worry about the petty things — definitely petty in the grander scope of life.
So, I wanted to belatedly let you know that for this Memorial Day weekend, I took one small step closer to awareness. And with this step, I hope to make some tiny positive impact on the overseas situation we find ourselves in and feel powerless over.
I guess that’s one big lead up to my sharing that I registered, not for the military, but simply to participate in emailing our military (at http://www.emailourmilitary.com/). I’m way overdue in expressing my heart-felt “respect, encouragement and admiration…(to at least one service person)…for their tireless dedication to keeping us safe and secure”. Hope this helps in some small way.
I do believe that supporting our military is totally separate from the politics of the situation. I hope you, too, might consider signing up and supporting our troops in this small way. Either way, I’ll keep you posted on how things go for me with this.
Note: While I’ve been meaning to post about this for a few days now, I got a little more of a virtual push to get this post done soon since Email Our Military has posted a contest supporting a new book out called “First Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives“, one which they believe should be required reading:
“It is not pro- or anti-war but instead a gripping account of combat’s price on the families of the fallen”.
Check it out!
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