For the past several years a local radio station has held a fund raising drive to buy phone cards for the soldiers from Fort Hood deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The always hold the drive in November in order for them to have the cards for calling family and friends during the holidays. Each year the drive gets more popular and this year they have raised $80,000, so far.
All of us can relate to the feeling of loneliness from being away from home during the holidays. Some of our greatest memories are of good times with our families for Christmas, Thanksgiving gorging ourselves into a food coma, and extra time away from work. In their situation about all they can look forward to is a pretty good Thanksgiving and Christmas meal, although I guess it is a holiday meal in Obamaworld. Back in the day, before worldwide instantaneous communication rode around in our pockets, the brightest moment of each day was mail call. The day was made when you received mail and ruined when you didn't. Well, these soldiers kind of still live in that world. They do not have cell towers on every high spot in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, calls from that area of the world get kind of expensive. So when someone walks up and gives you the opportunity to talk to friends and family back home it's a great day!
The drive is almost over as I think they are collecting online at www.590klbj.com through Sunday, November 15th. If you have a few bucks (or many bucks for that matter) take a few minutes at halftime of the game to give it to "Operation Call Home". Many people in Central Texas have come together for this project and we can always use a few more. For the sacrifice our men and women in the military make for us this is a nice payback from us, don't you think?
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