Send Holiday Care Packages to the Troops

The holiday season is upon us! Would you like to send a care package to a military service member? Our partner, Beyond Bookmarks has created a special coupon code so you can send care packages, "Patriot Packs," to military services members at home and deployed this holiday season and get a 10% discount. This special service has allowed us to continue the tradition of our Holiday Love Project.

Whether you have a loved one serving or not, we've made it possible for you to send care packages to our troops with our Unknown Soldier Service. eMail Our Military has a confidential database of service members serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan (and across the globe) who could use a little love and some goodies from home. You even get to include a special message to the service member who'll receive your package!

Every care package you order gives back to the troops! You get a great discount, your service members get great packages and a portion of the proceeds come back to eMail Our Military so we can continue to support our troops. What could be better than that?

Just order the package you want to send use COUPON CODE: EMOM and Beyond Bookmarks and eMOM will take care of the rest.

Here's how:

Order your Patriot Pack by calling Beyond Bookmarks toll free at 1-866-746-5133. They're happy to take your order over the phone Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST. (Don't forget to use COUPON CODE: EMOM to get your 10% discount)

OR if you prefer to do it yourself online:

1. Add the Patriot Pack you'd like to send to your shopping cart and select soldier service from the drop down menu.

2. Add any add on items you'd like to include to your shopping cart.

3. Click checkout and add your gift tag message using the button to the right of your Patriot Pack that reads add gift tag message. (Don't forget to use COUPON CODE: EMOM to get your 10% discount)

4. Continue checkout as normal, but enter your address as the shipping address. Beyond will change this to the APO/FPO address of a soldier provided by eMail Our Military.

5. Choose USPS as your shipping carrier then select Priority Mail as your shipping method

If you get stuck of need a little help along the way just give the good folks at Beyond Bookmarks a call toll free at: 1-866-746-5133

If you'd like to send holiday cards & letters, we'd love you to do that through our friends at Operation Gratitude. They are in desperate need of cards and letters all year round.

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Free Lunch for Veterans at Texas Roadhouse

Texas Roadhouse – free lunch, Friday, Nov. 11 (11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.). Every Texas Roadhouse location across the country will participate in the free lunch event to honor the men and women of our armed forces. Offer good for All veterans – including all active, retired or former U.S. military. ID Required. See the Texas Roadhouse Veterans Day page for more information.

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Veterans Eat Free at Chilis Today

Veterans eat free at Chilis today! See the photo for details and enjoy.

Chilis Restaurant – Friday, Nov. 11. Chilis is offering all military veterans past and present their choice of one of 6 meals. This offer is available from 11am – 5pm on November 11, 2011 at participating Chili’s in the U.S. only. Dine-in from limited menu only; beverages and gratuity not included. Veterans and active duty military simply show proof of military service. Visit their website to find locations.

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A Simple, Personal Way to Thank Veterans

Today's guest post was written by Dave McLaughlin

In the spirit of eMail Our Military, Vthankyou is an effort to give Americans a simple way to support veterans and soldiers. Anyone with a webcam and an internet connection can post a short video message of gratitude and good will for veterans, up to sixty seconds long, by going to vsnap.com.

Video messages capture emotion and personality in a way that text usually doesn’t. Here are some examples that give a sense of how these messages are so simple, but so moving. They also illustrate the variety of voices and messages that people are posting.

Please join this campaign and add your own video message to thank our veterans. Just go to Vsnap.com. If you have a Twitter account, you can sign in with those credentials. If not, you can enter your email and make up a password. The service is free, and Vthankyou has lined up corporate donors who will make a $5 donation to The Wounded Warrior Project for each video message that gets posted.

You can even attach other documents to the video message. You might want to add a photo of a family member who has served, or a link to a song that reminds you of someone now deployed. Anything you like.

When you share your message, please send it to vthankyou@vsnap.com, and please cc a few friends that you think will want to add their voices to this campaign. We believe very strongly that the vast majority of Americans share a deep respect and gratitude for the service and sacrifice of veterans and their families, and Vthankyou is our attempt at giving those folks a simple way to share that gratitude with veterans and with the world.

If you have any questions, please find us on Twitter @Vthankyou or @Vsnap. Thanks for saying Vthankyou!

Here is my ThankYou Message to veterans.

Record yours here. Takes 2 minutes. Each one sends $5 to charity!

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Send A Service Member A Care Package

It's Memorial Day and you've got your favorite service member on your mind, or maybe you've been looking for a way to show a military service member in need that there are people who care back home. Our partners at Beyond Bookmarks have created a special coupon code so you can send care packages, or as we call them "Patriot Packs," to military services members at home and deployed and get a 10% discount.

Whether you have a loved one serving or not, we've made it possible for you to send care packages to our troops with our Unknown Soldier Service. eMail Our Military has a confidential database of service members serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan (and across the globe) who could use a little love and some goodies from home. You even get to include a special message to the service member who'll receive your package!

Every care package you order gives back to the troops! You get a great discount, your service members get great packages and a portion of the proceeds come back to eMail Our Military so we can continue to support our troops. What could be better than that?

Just order the package you want to send use COUPON CODE: EMOM and Beyond Bookmarks and eMOM will take care of the rest.

Here's how:

Order your Patriot Pack by calling Beyond Bookmarks toll free at 1-866-746-5133. They're happy to take your order over the phone Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST. (Don't forget to use COUPON CODE: EMOM to get your 10% discount)

OR if you prefer to do it yourself online:

1. Add the Patriot Pack you'd like to send to your shopping cart and select soldier servicefrom the drop down menu.

2. Add any add on items you'd like to include to your shopping cart.

3. Click checkout and add your gift tag message using the button to the right of your Patriot Pack that reads add gift tag message. (Don't forget to use COUPON CODE: EMOM to get your 10% discount)

4. Continue checkout as normal, but enter your address as the shipping address. Beyond will change this to the APO/FPO address of a soldier provided by eMail Our Military.

5. Choose USPS as your shipping carrier then select Priority Mail as your shipping method

If you get stuck of need a little help along the way just give the good folks at Beyond Bookmarks a call toll free at: 1-866-746-5133

If you've been searching for a way to support our troops easily you've found it! We'll continue to share all the different ways you can support our troops along with our news and updates.

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It's Really About You This Memorial Day

Many of you are military service members, veterans, military spouses, family members and troops supporters. You each have a unique perspective, a unique story to tell. This Memorial Day weekend we'd like to hear your stories. If you'd like to write a Memorial Day guest post on our blog, let us know by dropping a comment here. If you'll be writing a post on your own blog, let us know that too by linking to your post in our comments.

eMail Our Military has changed and grown so much since 9/11 and it's never been about us but rather support our troops the best way we know how. If you'd like to become more involved in supporting our troops, we'd love to have you.

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Action Alert - For Our Wounded Warriors

My friend Chris is participating in Tough Mudder this year to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and he sent me this email that I'd like to share with you. I hope you'll take a moment to read it and donate to help our heroes --

From Chris -

If you haven’t heard by now, there are a few of us social networkers that have a crazy idea that we can raise over $2,000 for wounded veterans by taking part in the “toughest obstacle course in the world.” We’ve signed up for the Tough Mudder event (a 10 mile test of our souls) that’s taking place in just under a week. We’ve trained for a months, prepared ourselves mentally and only have one thing left to do… obtain your support.

I won’t include a long blog post that talks about how difficult this log-carrying, fire-running, lake-swimming, electrical-shock-having, 10 mile run is going to be. No, I won’t try and impress you with our level of insanity. I won’t even mention that not even 50% of the participants are expected to even finish this 3hr event. You won’t find a single mention of the crawling through pipes and under wires and hill climbing that we’ll have to complete. Hey, that’s not what this post is about.

This entry is to share our goal – which is within the spirit of the event and it’s worthy cause through the Wounded Warrior Project. Quite simply, to finish together as a team. The teamwork that our small group, the Social Mudders, plan to display will be in the spirit of the event in that finishing together is more important that racing each other.

So if you’re reading this, I’m asking you to take only a few moments and donate just $5 to our team and then pass along the article through your own social channels. The upside is that you’ll be donating to the team that is currently in the lead for the most funds raised – and keeping them out front to show the power of partnering social networks with worthy charitable causes.

Your Help (it’s so easy!):

Simply head to the event page (https://www.raceit.com/Fundraising/?event=2934) and search for our team, Social Mudders, and then a member to donate under. It’s quick and couldn’t be easier to show your support.

Share this article via Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn knowing that every time you do, you’re assisting the Wounded Warrior Project to aid injured and recovering veterans and their families.

Please help if you can!

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