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pen pals for military
i heard that you can sign up online and get a pen pal who's in the miliary to write too and email and stuff. do they still do that? where do i sign up? i've tried looking online, but i couldnt find any websites.
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Honest truth, most soldiers I know spend all their communicating time (often not much) focusing on their families and close friends.
If you want to help a soldier, google "US soldier care package" or something similar and send things they need down there. A few packs of AA batteries go a long way.
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Here is a great organization that sets up people with their own "adopted" soldiers to write to and support. soldiersangels.org There are some rules - you have to write one letter (hand written, snail-mail) a week and send one care package (any size) a month. And you have to understand that they won't always be able to write back. Some of them are in the field and can't get to a computer for weeks at a time. I have "adopted" two so far, and one was only able to even let me know he was getting my packages at the end of his tour. The other is just heading home from Iraq now. But both expressed great thanks for the contact. They said it helps so much to receive letters and packages, to have something to look forward to in the mail, and to get items from home that they couldn't dream of finding while in a foriegn country. There are other requirements for signing up to be matched with a soldier. You do have to go through an approval process. If you don't want to be a penpal, they have a lot of other ways you can help. Check out the website and see if its something you want to do, but keep in mind that you should not be doing this to develop a relationship of any kind. Its rare to receive mail back from the soldiers. As I said before, they are very busy, but they all do appreciate the letters and packages, even if they can't say so. Hope that helps a bit. Good luck.
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you're welcome to try, however, I must warn you that soldiers don't really have time to write back. I did my best to respond to all of the people who wrote to me on my first deployment, but in the end it just got overwhelming and I'd just wind up feeling guilty for not writing back. I just told people to not send me things when my second deployment rolled around. there's several organizations that deal with that, the USO and Soldier's angels being the two prominent ones. you're welcome to try, its always nice to know people back home give a fuck, but don't expect too much out of a dude that just got back from a 72 hour patrol. we like to sleep after things like that.
good luck
-Gunner
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