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Supporting our Troops
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Citizen Sam Quilts for Wounded Soldiers
CSAM quilts are sent to transport our wounded from the battlefield to safety.
For directions click here.
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Join CSAM Quilt Group
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Operation Helmetliner
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US currently has over 200,000 troops overseas who are subjected to sub-zero windchills. Find out more.
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Join Operation Helmetliner Group
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Operation Santa
CSAM has shipped nearly 70,000 homemade Christmas stockings to our
deployed. www.operationsanta.info Download our stocking template
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Join Operation Santa Group
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More Ways of Supporting~
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Adopt a Soldier
Receiving something from home, even from a stranger, can make all
the difference in the morale of our troops. Find out more.
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Cards/Letters of Support
Nothing is more endearing to our troops than to receive cards and
letters written from a sincere heart. More.
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K-9 Warriors
Our highly trained K-9 units and handlers work everyday to defend
our freedom. Find out more.
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Veterans
Citizen SAM believes strongly in supporting our veterans. Find out what you can do to help.
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Snowball Express
Citizen SAM tenderly cares about the children of our Fallen
Heroes. We provide financial assistance and gifts for the children’s goodie bags. Please mark your donation Snowball Express.
Please visit us here.
Click here to watch NBC Nightly News coverage of this amazing program.
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Citizen SAM 4
Kidz
Citizen SAM is passionate about transferring the rich legacy
of America to our children. Teaching them the value of freedom should start at an early age. Find out more.
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Find the pattern here.
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Send a little present to those soldiers as a little "ThankYou"
from us at home..
There's so many great Christmas fabrics out there that would be perfect for a stocking to
fill with little goodies...
Visit the official OPERATION SANTA website for all the details obout
when, where and how these parcels get overseas.
Below you can find the basics needed to get started.
Even if you want to contribute, but can't get the sewing done, go to the website to find
out how to donate.
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Sample List
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Check out this article~~
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Read Thank You Notes From The Soldiers..
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Help Support Our Troops
Sew a quilt for a wounded soldier.
Would you like to help support the troops with a home made helmetliner, scarf or quilt square to be the
finishing touch to a hand made quilt for a wounded or just cold soldier?
The goal is one quilt for each soldier, begining with the wounded. Something like 200,000 quilts are needed. Have a good
look at the web site of CITIZEN S.A.M. to get the full
story and details.
I've done my own design to be sewn onto finished quilts and am more than happy to share if you'd like to use it to finish off a
quilt.
Info from Citizen S.A.M. about the quilts:
*Screen capture image above taken from Citizen S.A.M. webisite for instruction purposes.
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Here's the press release being distributed by Operation Helmetliner:
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TROOPS NEED KNITTERS/CROCHETERS
Today,
U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and South Korea, as well as many parts of the United States, are exposed to
winds and bitter cold during the winter months. Riding in open trucks and humvees, they often encounter sub-zero wind chills. The
military head gear issued to our troops is made of synthetic material which is not as warm as wool. Just as in WWI and WWII,
volunteers are needed to make these wool caps for our troops. The wool head covering which can be worn under the Kevlar helmet
provides warmth to the head and neck but does not restrict vision.
According to Dr. Richard H. Garretson, M.D., Crossroads Community Hospital,
Mt. Vernon, Illinois, approximately 30 percent of a person’s body heat loss is through the head. It is important to keep the
head warm, so the body temperature stays up. The brain controls everything else in the body, the ability to think and act as
well as the ability for the body to maintain a particular temperature.
One way to increase the comfort level of our troops in cold climates is to
provide knitted wool ski masks, or "wooly pulleys" to them. “The helmetliner is definitely warm. It has certainly been a help,
or should I say warmth.” said Corporal Juan M. Perez, Jr., who is stationed in Iraq.
In addition to helmetliners, scarves and fleece neck gators will provide relief from the
cold conditions. The patterns are available at www.geocities.com/helmetliner. If you have any questions, please contact helmetliner@hotmail.comor P.O. Box 236, Auburn, IL 62615. Completed helmetliners may be sent to Helmetliner, P.O. Box 236, Auburn, IL
62615, where they will be sent directly to our troops.
Donations to help defray shipping
costs may be made payable to Helmetliner and sent to the address
above.
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Citizen Support for America's Military offers various opportunities to support our Armed Forces, our
wounded, veterans and Gold Star families (those who have lost a loved one in the war).
WHO WE ARE
Citizen S.A.M. is composed of thousands of volunteers
from across the USA.
**We are ordinary people of all ages doing extraordinary deeds.
**We recognize we live in the greatest nation on earth enjoying freedom every day yet so little is asked of us in return.
**We are Americans who have discovered the secret of giving back through supporting our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Air Men, wounded, veterans
and Gold Star families.
**Citizen S.A.M. is about Americans taking care of fellow Americans. If we don't, who will?
Please visit www.citizensam.org to see where you might best serve. Then forward this newsletter and invite your friends to do the same. Each of
us doing our part helps to preserve our precious freedom and keep the United States of America strong!
OPERATION HELMETLINER
Do you knit or crochet? Our troops need you! The temperatures are becoming very frigid for our soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and we
have patterns to help keep them warm. Visit www.citizensam.org and click on Operation Helmetliner to download the patterns. Please pass this
information on to other crafters. Mail the finished product to us at the address provided and we will ship them to our Armed Forces.
Meet Operation Helmetliner Team Leader Sue Pflederer
Sue took up knitting 6 years ago and hasn't put it down. She doesn't have any personal connection to our Military but has been moved to tears by
the awesome sacrifice these great men and women make for her. "Supporting our Military in this way is the very least I can do," she says. Because
she travels frequently for her job, she plans to carry a sample helmetliner. pictures and patterns with her so she can stop in to knitting stores
in these other areas to spread the word. Please feel free to email her with pattern related questions or to request a picture for your local
knitting store/guild at operationhelmetliner@yahoo.com.
DO YOU SEW?
Transporting of our wounded from the war zone to medical facilities occurs in cargo planes which have
no heat. Citizen SAM is making Quilts for our Wounded with specifications to fit stretchers and gurneys. When visiting the website click on
this heading for guildelines. We are in need of a Team Leader to oversee this aspect. E mail info@citizensam.org for more details.
$$ FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Financial support is always needed for shipping and material costs. Your gift is tax deductible and can be made securely through PayPal
listed on the website.
Merry ChristmasandHappyNewYear to each of you! May your holidays include love, safe travel, peace and happiness. Please remember in your
thoughts and prayers our troops serving in harm's way keeping us safe and our Gold Star families who cannot share this holiday with their
loves ones.
God bless America; home of the free because of the brave!
Patti Smith
Citizen SAM, Founder
www.citizensam.org
Where ordinary people do extraordinary deeds
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If anyone knows of a similar scheme for the Aussie troops, I'd love to know about it and
help if possible.
Just send me an email!!
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