There is a widely circulated email right now suggesting that you send a card, letter, or package to wounded veteran at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
This is a false eRumor.
It suggests sending mail addressed to "A Recovering American Soldier" or addressing it to "Any Wounded Soldier."
The U.S. Postal Service will not process any mail addressed that way and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center will not deliver it.
Since 2001 the Armed Forces have prohibited receiving mail that is not addressed to a particular soldier by name.
It's a security issue.
They do not want letters, cards, or packages being sent into military facilities unless they know who they are from and to whom they are addressed.
If you desire to make a donation to more than 300 organizations who support our troops, try .www.americasupportsyou.mil
Gene Frice
Lois,
Not quite away yet-leaving this AM for CA and points south-be
gone a
week, but generally take computer with me (Laptop).
The
patch you describe (red in color with white plane and white
parachute) is the
Airborne Command-it is generally the command
headquarters and those that do
the training (of all kinds). Those
wearing the patch are not generally those
going through airborne
training as students-students from all the services,
including
foreign. The students do not usually wear that patch as they are
there
for only a few days or a few weeks. So, your dad may have
been
assigned to the Airborne (Parachute) School after he completed
his
jump training.
The patch is a common one and I think is still
in use. Keep looking
but don't pay more than a dollar or more for it. Look up
military
items in stores that deal in such.
Regards,
Gene Frice
A Bill Mauldin Cartoon
Darrell Egner
INCREDIBLE ! The picture was taken in 1918. It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge in Iowa. A gift from our grandfathers. ..
Virgina Jorgen