YELLOW  RIBBON  CAMPAIGN

Yellow ribbons have almost disappeared and many that remain are worn and faded.     Has American Pride faded like our ribbons ?   Displaying yellow ribbons is one of the ways we can show respect for our troops and their families.   It takes so little on our part to display yellow ribbons, yet it means so much to our troops.     Work in your neighborhood and community to put up more yellow ribbons for our troops to see.   This is a great way to say "Thank You" to the troops returning  home and "Come Back Soon" to the ones being deployed.

AT&T  PHONE  CARDS

AT&T Phone Cards make a great gift for our soldiers deployed soldiers.    You can help make it possible for soldiers to call home.    Officers have asked for calling card for private and lower grade soldiers.

BACK  PACKS  FOR  IRAQ

Help children in Iraq & Afghanistan with old school Back Packs and School Supplies and support Freedom Through Education.   This makes an ideal project for local schools, churches and other organizations.

OPERATION  HOME  FRONT

This project helps families of Deployed Soldiers.  Many family members experience stress, needs for their children, financial set-backs or just a helping hand during the time their loved one is away from home.   Operation Home Front helps to address these and other needs of families of our soldiers.

OPERATION  ENDURING  FREEDOM

Help send items to soldiers serving in Operation Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Afghanistan and other locations in the Middle East.

JAMMIES  FOR  GIs

Our wounded Soldiers go to military hospitals for care in the war zones of the Middle East and are transferred to other locations for further care.   Jammies for GIs provides pajamas for our wounded soldiers so they don't have to rely on military issue hospital gowns while hospitalized and when transferred to other facilities.   We need IMMEDIATE donations of pajamas in Sizes Large and Extra Large.

OPERATION  DESERT  CHILD

This project was started at the request of our soldiers.   The soldiers noticed that some of the orphan children do not have winter clothes and began requested we provide assistance for the children.    Operation Desert Child helps to provide some essential clothing and other basic needs of the children that are homeless and in orphanages 

American Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces

Using the latest in computer and telecommunications technology, the American Red Cross Service to Armed Forces (SAF) sends communications on behalf of family members who are facing emergencies or other important events.

Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, SAF links members of the U.S. Armed Forces with their families during emergencies. Also, when a service member’s child is born, the Red Cross may be asked by the birth mother to deliver an announcement to the new father.

The service reaches men and women deployed at military installations, embassies and ships at sea all around the world. This is possible because of our dedicated team of volunteer caseworkers.

Through the worldwide network, Red Cross caseworkers:

·Verify the circumstances of a death, critical illness or injury, or other emergency affecting a service member’s immediate family
·Send an emergency communication message to the service member’s location
·Ensure delivery of the message
·Follow up with the family

Service members and military commanders rely on Red Cross emergency communications to help make leave decisions or to help service members cope with the emergency in other ways.

To contact SAF, call (803) 540-1215.

CARDS  AND  LETTERS  TO  TROOPS

Churches, schools and other organizations can send cards and letters to deployed troops.     Drawings from children are also enjoyed by the soldiers.   The soldiers put the drawings in their tents and will look at the drawings before going on a mission.   They realize that this is what they are fighting for -- the freedom and future of our children.   Sending cards and letters is one way you can help our soldiers know that they are remembered and that you appreciate them and respect the sacrifices they make as they fight for freedom.

OPERATION  SHOE  BOX

Operation Shoe Box sends a shoebox size "care package" to deployed troops.    South Carolina Chapters of Blue Star Mothers have incorporated this into the Operation Enduring Freedom project.

GOLD  STAR  BANNERS

The Midlands Chapter of Blue Star Mothers of America participates in the military honors of our Brave and Honorable Fallen Soldiers.   The presentation of the Gold Star Banner is given to the Mother and Wife of our American Hero at the grave site. 

The Gold Star Banner is given in reverence and humility of the brave and ultimate sacrifice our Fallen Hero has made in the fight for freedom.