Support for all the QPs out there.. I need your help

[veritasthrice]

Hi Sirs,

I'm a recent member here; I've been reading these forums for quite sometime and only recently registered to begin posting. This will be a post for two things, but first I will give background as to why I'll be asking help of you all.

I'm a Senior at a University here in PA, and I'm taking a Public Speaking course. I have a persuasive speech to do as an assignment to present in front of my classmates. I decided to do a speech to actuate students into supporting U.S. Soldiers on deployment. As part of my speech I thought it would be a good opportunity to use a story as testimonial of members from the board; mainly what I'm looking for is how you all feel when you get letters from anonymous individuals and what it means to you.

I'm also looking for a short story to move them to understand just how much you guys sacrifice for their freedom. A lot of students in my class are for varied reasons, less than patriotic. I personally believe that they just need some inspiration, and from some of the things I've read here are the epitome of inspiration to me. I'm not a person easily moved by emotion but some of the stories of bravery and love of your fellows bring me close to the involuntary waterworks. That is what I'm kind of going for with them.

The second thing I'm asking for help on is a little bit different. I've had some correspondence with TR about it to clear everything with him about asking prior-to. As part of showing that I really believe in what I am speaking about, I'm funding the materials (stamps envelopes paper, etc) so that each student might write a letter to a soldier who is deployed. I see it like this, if I move them enough and make them care, and give them the means to do so, I should get some results. Even though its not part of my requirements, it's something i want to do. Herein lies my dilemma; according to what TR told me APO regs have changed (its been a few years since I've sent stuff to anyone at an APO outside my family) and I cannot simply have the students address them to "any serviceman".

So I only have two options, collect contact info from you guys here who would like to receive letters, or know someone who could use a little morale boost. Or if one of you kind sirs would be willing that I could mail you all of the letters and you could distribute them for me. The second seems like a better option to me because getting addresses of people here screams OPSEC to me.

If anyone would be willing to distribute these letters for me (and currently I have no idea how many I may or may not get, but I guarantee at least one will be going out from me) I would greatly appreciate it. I would even go so far as to ship them with any necessary postage you might need to redistribute them to other places.

I'd like to thank you all for your time, I know its kind of a lengthy post and a little different. I'd also like to thank you all for serving your countries, as I see it there is nothing more honorable a man/woman can do.

PS. If anyones out in the North East PA area around Bloomsburg, drop me a PM , and you got a beer on me!