Friday, June 15, 2007

Please Help!

My dear friend Lori @ http://www.gnightgirl.blogspot.com/ has a son named Brian who is in the Army and stationed in Iraq. He's barely old enough to drink and yet he's driving a tank (thank G-d) , so he's not nearly in as much danger as he might be. When asked what he needed he said "Well we handed out the beanie babies you sent and the kids really loved them. Please send more. They help everyone's morale a lot, kids, parents and soldiers alike." So she put out the call and bloggers responded in droves. She sent more and more and they kept calling for more and more. Finally the sheer volume got overwhelming and the local radio and TV stations set up a website and got her some help managing this giant, silly, wonderful enterprise for peace and mutual understanding. Please visit www.toys-for-troops.com and send a beanie baby (or a dozen) to a soldier to give to some Iraqi kid. Since it's someone I know running it I know they aren't being auctioned on ebay and it's not a scam. It's completely legit, it's easy, it's cheap and who knows? It might save a soldier's life. Maybe YOUR kid, or the kid of someone you know. Please help. Thanks.

4 comments:

lime said...

terrific. thanks for letting us know!

Anonymous said...

I'm only wishing to all of them getting out of there as soon as possible... ;-(
But, I'll send a BB. ;-))

Stealth said...

Thanks for the info...I was just going to throw mine away...

Zoely said...

this is a brilliant idea but I am also excited about finally being able to comment here...