Contribution e-mail from JK. These are good causes.

[ohtransplant]

I received this today and made a contribution through the JK link so the JK community gets credit. I also made my contribution in honor of JK. To do so, the contact info is as follows:

Kerry, John F.- (D - MA) Class II
304 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: kerry.senate.gov/v3/contact/email.html


Dear Ohtransplant,

There's no such thing as "doing enough" to stand by the men and women of our armed services -- especially at a time when so many of them are making extraordinary sacrifices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

We stand by them by demanding a policy worthy of their sacrifice. And we stand by them in smaller, personal ways as well.

As you and your family celebrate the holidays, I urge you to lend your immediate support to two charities delivering hands-on help to ease the burden our soldiers are so bravely bearing.

Anyone who has ever visited a military hospital knows the courage and resilience of injured soldiers and their families. The long process of recuperation can be especially difficult without loved ones by a soldier's side. That's why the Fisher House provides a home away from home, free of charge, for the families of injured soldiers.

Your act of year-end generosity in support of Fisher House can help families overcome the prohibitive costs of lodging near U.S. military bases and military hospitals around the world. Is there a more important gift to provide injured soldiers and their families than the opportunity to be together when they need each other the most?

Fisher House
https://www.givedirect.org/give/givefrm.asp?Action=GC&CID=780


Your special year-end gift can also help the USO reach out to our troops, supporting USO projects like Operation Phone Home. This very special effort uses donations from the public to purchase bulk quantities of prepaid, international phone cards, which the USO then gets into the hands of troops deployed far away from home.

Please support USO projects that bring the warmth of home a little bit closer to our brave troops. This holiday season, help our service men and women in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at various military hospitals stateside and overseas stay connected to their loved ones.

USO
https://www.uso.org/donate/custom.aspx?id=547

This is your opportunity to reach out in concrete ways that will directly help our troops.

They've given so much to us. Let's take a moment right now in the midst of the holiday season to give something back to them.

With thanks and best wishes,

John Kerry

[whometense]

1. That's interesting

My email had different charities listed:

Donate Now

Dear whometense,

As you and your loved ones celebrate the holidays, I hope you will take a moment to reach out and help those who know the face of America's ideals and the spirit of shared sacrifice.

Will you take a moment right now to support the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and War Kids Relief?

We can never repay the men and women who have been injured in service to our country. But supporting the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is one simple way to begin expressing our gratitude.

The Fund has constructed a world-class, state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The center will serve military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan -- as well as soldiers and veterans injured in other operations.

Your donation can help provide services to the patients who will be treated in the Center and their families. They've given so much to us. Let's take a moment right now, in the midst of the holiday season, to give back to them.

ACT NOW TO SUPPORT THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND.
https://www.givedirect.org/give/givefrm.asp?Action=GC&CID=126

There are others who have borne war's burden that we need to help. As Army Captain Jonathan Powers patrolled Baghdad neighborhoods, he saw firsthand the look of both hope and fear in the faces of children caught in a war zone.

After returning home, he founded War Kids Relief, a program of Veterans for America.

War Kids Relief is the leading advocate for Iraq's children -- making a difference on the ground, helping stock Iraq's Youth Centers with the supplies and equipment needed to help children reclaim some sense of normalcy in difficult situations that no child should ever have to face.

ACT NOW TO SUPPORT WAR KIDS RELIEF.
https://secure.ga3.org/03/war_kids_relief

I urge you to do anything you can to support these two vitally important charities.

With thanks and best wishes,

John Kerry

Gave already, and also in honor of JK!

[TayTay]

3. I got this one too!

He is appealling for a lot of different year-end charities.

That's so nice. I will send something along to War Kids Relief. (Like you all knew I would. After all, Capt. Powers ran it for a long time. :loveya: )

[whometense]

4. I knew the Capt. Powers

connection would get you. ;-)

[ohtransplant]

6. "That's so nice."

It is, isn't it...

I keep thinking of how I miss having a President who is a genuinely good person...

I sure hope he runs.

[Blaukraut]

5. that's the one I got, too

Isn't the first one the same one we collected for last summer?

[Island Blue]

8. The Fallen Heroes Fund

is the one we collected for - wasn't that around Valentine's Day of last year? Time flies.

[wisteria]

2. I am glad to see he is doing this. I use to give a big donation at the

end of the year to the USO from a like on the Kerry site. This year it was gone. I think I may have made one directly already to the USO. But, I will certainly make another one or two, in honor of JK.

[ohtransplant]

7. I've given to some others

but I like to give through JK's links to show the "Kerry Nation" is alive and well and ready to respond.

[globalvillage]

9. I got the Fisher House/USO email

I give to the USO because of one of Sen Kerry's emails.

Cool that he asks for donations to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. I emailed them a couple weeks ago to see if we could get a photo of he paver from our group. They said probably after the first of the year.
I'll be sure to post it as soon as I get something from them.

[JI7]

10. did you all tell Kerry about it at the birthday ?

whoever gets a pic of it please post on here.