military2 Mailing a postcard to our troops is such an piece of cake and simple way to demonstrate our appreciation.   I experience horrid.   I failed to send a single postcard to my sister-in-police force during her last deployment to Afghanistan.   Emily, we are sending 1 out on your behalf to others who are currently serving our country!   And thank you Lisa, of The Nuthouse, for telling me almost a elementary and easy mode to demonstrate gratitude and providing the opportunity to talk with my kids about war, government, civic duty, and the earth.

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Let'due south Say Thanks is a website started past Xerox and is partnered with many others including Give2TheTroops, the Rochester Found of Engineering, and the Boys & Girls Guild to name just a few. These companies make it easy for you lot to say "Thank you" to United states Troops stationed overseas. Children from all over the state created postcards and the designs are available to you through the Permit'southward Say Thanks website. In the by several years, millions of postcards take been sent to deployed US service men and women who love getting the cheers they deserve.

Let's Say Thank you makes sending a postcard simple, only follow these steps and in a few short minutes your Thanks is on its mode to a soldier.

ane. Go to the Let's Say Thank you website at http://www.letssaythanks.com.

ii. Follow the link that says "view all designs".

iii. Scroll through the page until you discover a postcard that yous like.

4. Click on the link that says "send this card".

five. The next page has several fields to fill up out. They will ask for your name, city and state. In that location are several messages already created for you to choose from. Yous can select one of those letters or click on other.

half-dozen. If you lot choose a message from the list, click on the "submit" button and you will go a confirmation that your carte will exist sent.

7. If you cull the "Other" selection and so click "submit" some other field pops up and you lot tin create your own message. Don't forget it is a small postcard, so you lot will need to keep your message short. military thanks

viii. Click on the "submit" button and yous will get a confirmation that your card volition exist sent.

9. You are welcome to transport as many cards as yous wish everyday. The site recommends choosing a different menu every fourth dimension to get a practiced variety of designs that are sent out.

10. Bookmark this site and transport another menu tomorrow, it only takes a few minutes, and means the earth to a soldier.

xi. Look around the site to see messages from soldiers, photos, news well-nigh Let's Say Thanks and their other partners.

12. Tell your friends.

Sending a Soldier a mail card is not only a wonderful surprise for them, but it lets them know that they are not forgotten, that America is thinking most them. The Allow's Say Thanks website is easy enough to apply that young children tin can assist pick out which cards to transport and which bulletin to choose. And it is a great mode to spend time with the kids while teaching them virtually volunteer work. Let's Say Thank you sends post cards out all twelvemonth long, but every bit the Holidays become closer, nosotros spend more than and more fourth dimension doing this every week. I sit down down with ane of the little Basics at a time and they each pick out 5-10 cards and the bulletin they want to send. They love knowing that they just sent post and that it is going to exist sent out across the world.

Take a quick moment to say Thanks to Our Troops.

Lisa is mom of three preschoolers (and I thought I was busy).   She blogs regularly at, The Nuthouse. Please cheque out her weblog!   Thanks Lisa for guest posting today!

Rachel is the founder of the blog, Ane Crazy Firm.  She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Uncomplicated Scientific discipline Experiments. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her hubby and vi children.