New Angel Project: It's Me!

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Soldiers' Angels proudly announces Operation It's Me!

With the support of Soldiers' Angels, Artist Susie Allen of Colorado is now providing beautiful pencil or charcoal drawings of deployed service members as gifts of love and appreciation for their parents.

Spurred to action when she realized that instead of just sympathizing with the burdens of military families, she could do something to hopefully lift the spirits of parents worried about their deployed child, Susie conceived Operation It's Me. “If I were waiting for the phone to ring and I ran to pick it up,” Susie explains. “I would want to hear, ‘Hi, Momma/Honey, it's me!’ When the package with the deployed hero's portrait comes to the recipient and they open it, that portrait should say, ‘Hi, it's ME!’”

Operation It's Me is truly a gift of the heart from Susie. “When I first began thinking this through,” she says, “I pulled a daily affirmation card out of a pack of 50 and it said, ‘Use your gifts to serve others.’” Thus, Susie's pencil and charcoal portraits of a deployed service member are available to the parents of that service member at no cost.

For more information about Operation It's Me and how to request a portrait of a deployed son or daughter, see the Operation It's Me project page.

AMVETS Life Membership Increase

AMVETS Life membership is $180.00 thru Dec 31, 2010. Effective January 1st, 2011 ~ $200.00 and effective January 1st, 2012 $250.00


Latest Newsletter: Amets of Illinois


Amvets Newsletter link above. AmVets is the only service org that is open to all veterans. They have provided for the homeless thru the shelter in Chicago and provided fire retardant shirts to the troops and calling cards. They help get veterans thru the VA red tape.

Grayslake Marine returns for holiday and dad’s wedding - Lake County News-Sun

Grayslake Marine returns for holiday and dad’s wedding - Lake County News-Sun

Cooking with the Troops

I am sure many of you are familiar with Troy Yokum's hike across America with a goal to raise $5 million to assist military families in need.

He has something extra special planned:

Troy will host a Barefoot Hike for Heroes one-mile group walk to set a new Guinness World Record in Phoenix, AZ on Dec. 4th

Also:

All ages are welcome to participate in the one-mile barefoot walk--no skateboards, rollerblades or bicycles are allowed on the course. Special t-shirts and other merchandise will be sold at the event, and an autograph session with Troy and his crew will take place after the walk. All donations will be accepted on the day of the event.

So, if you find yourself in the Phoenix area on Saturday, December 4th, consider registering to walk - BAREFOOT! - with Troy, all for a good cause. Even if you can't make the walk in person, you can "Shadow Walk".

Bravo Company 1st Platoon 4th Squad - How we sleep

Unit requesting Christmas decorations

Are you an Approved Angel? There is a unit who will be returning home in March, but has requested Christmas decorations: lights (used are fine), stockings, Santa & Mrs. Clause & elf costumes, if possible, and I'm sure if you think of something else it would be most welcome. If you can help, please contact Ann at the corporate office at adavidson@soldiersangels.org ASAP to request the address for where to send you holiday cheer! Any package would have to go out quickly in order to arrive before Christmas, so don't hesitate!


This is time-sensitive, since we are fast
approaching the mailing deadlines for APO/FPO for delivery before
Christmas!

Wingtip to Wingtip~