{"id":2094,"date":"2009-06-17T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-06-17T06:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:03:50","slug":"dont_forget_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget There Are Still Troops Over There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;m late to the party, but I agreed this weekend to help Move America Forward gather people to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecampaignstore.com\/store\/default.asp?parentid=448&#038;rname=bcom400hts\" target=\"browser\">send<\/a> boxes to the troops. We send boxes to a soldier we&#8217;ve connected with via Soldier&#8217;s Angels (and btw, take a moment and <a href=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/index.php?mact=News%2Ccntnt01%2Cdetail%2C0&#038;cntnt01articleid=348&#038;cntnt01origid=15&#038;cntnt01returnid=15\" target=\"browser\">help them get a new social media website by clicking on a contest link<\/a>), but this is a chance to simply click a button, give a card, and let a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan get some stuff and be reminded that &#8211; even for a moment &#8211; you were thinking about him or her.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecampaignstore.com\/store\/default.asp?parentid=448&#038;rname=bcom400hts\" target=\"browser\">click here and spend the price of a moderate dinner to send some useful swag to a serving soldier<\/a>; take a moment and write a few words and let them know you&#8217;re paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>Because while all of us are worrying about the SP500, M1 and CDO &#8211; they are worrying about staying alive, defending innocents, and taking it to the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to gather other bloggers to help out and creating a team &#8211; &#8220;COINs&#8221; &#8211; to see how many packages we can send. Suggest it to other bloggers you know (they can just copy and paste the link at &#8216;click here&#8217;), and pass the word &#8211; please.<\/p>\n<p>Send at least one, and say a few words when you do.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal is trying to get you to send some swag to the troops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}