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Holiday Mail for Heroes, Preschool Style

A preschool class takes on Holiday Mail for Heroes!

New Ways to Help: Use Serve and Double Your Donation

Have you used the Holiday Giving Widget? Did you share it? Please leave a comment, letting us know what you think.

My Heroes

This past month I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and reflect on some of my heroes—people who have shown extraordinary courage and selflessness on behalf of our country and others around the world.

It’s Turkey Time

Thanksgiving – time for friends, family, football, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and most importantly – TURKEY!

Holiday Season Action Items: Give Back Through Soap.com

There are several opportunities to give back to the American Red Cross this year through Soap.com. See them here!

Holiday Mail for Heroes 2011

Announcing the fifth year of Holiday Mail for Heroes – send a card to a service member this year for the holidays!

An American Red Cross Halloween

Halloween is only a week away, so my guess is you’ve already figured out your costume. But if time has gotten away from you this fall and you still don’t know what you’ll dress up as, here are a few Red Cross-themed costumes I’d recommend.

David Laskin: What the Red Cross Means to Me

I know from researching The Long Way Home, my book about the immigrant experience in the war, that many of the half million foreign born soldiers who fought with U.S. forces got their first taste of American hospitality at Red Cross canteens.

Marjorie Hart: What the Red Cross Means to Me

What a welcome they received as they stepped onto American soil and how they appreciated the Red Cross ladies as they dispensed 35,000 half-pints of milk at the pier. Many had not tasted milk for four years.

Sarah Hilary: What the Red Cross Means to Me

To me, the Red Cross will always be linked to my mother’s memory of her first taste of bread and butter, as a little girl held prisoner…