Any Wounded Soldier Cards

No,You CAN’T send holiday cards to ’Any Wounded Soldier’ at Walter Reed..

but here's some things you Can do.

We've all seen the email forward that says "Send a holiday card to 'any wounded soldier' at Walter Reed Army Medical Center",

but,unfortunately, that is just not possible.

And if you want to read the news straight from a source who's spent time at Walter Reed? here's what a veteran friend of mine had to say about it.

Click here: No Christmas Cards for Walter Reed | This Veteran's Life

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You can also read this on Walter Reed Army Medical Center's website

Holiday Cards to Wounded and Recovering Soldiers

and this on Snopes.com

Click here: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cards for Recovering Soldiers

(and Snopes.com ,by the way, is where I always go to check out the veracity of any email forwards I receive :)

So, with all the above information in hand, if you receive an email forward regarding sending Christmas cards to Walter Reed, please send one of the links above to the sender, so they will know that it is Not possible to do that.

But,all is not lost,for all the many fine folks who want to do something for our wounded warriors during this holiday season!

On the post at This Veteran's Life in the comments, a commenter named 'Bigjohn Miska' had this to say:

"We here at VFW POST 8208, PO Box 653, Ruckersviile
VA 22968

will accept and deliver cards and gifts to the patients at Walter Reed and Bethesda Hospitals as well as to other hospitals where there are Patients from this war.Feel free to pass this onto all you know!"
Bigjohn

John Miska CDR
VFW Post 8208

Here's the website from John http://www.adoptasoldier.us/

the website at Walter Reed with the information about not accepting Christmas cards also lists several ways To do something for our wounded soldiers for the holidays.

And, as a member of Soldiers Angels , I would like to pass on that Soldiers Angels has a program in place for sending cards and letters to wounded warriors not just at the holiday season, but all throughout the year

Soldiers' Angels - Wounded TLC Team

So,even though you Can't send a Christmas card to 'Any Wounded Soldier', there are still plenty of ways you Can do something to let our wounded know that they are cared about, and that they are not forgotten, this holiday season.