Our military service members need your help. Letters & eMail from home are needed. Can you spare a little time to write to our troops? We’ve got over 500 new service members in need of morale boosting correspondence. If you’d like to send cards, letters and email to our military service members stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan please let us…
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Did You Know…
We’re starting a little series here called Did You Know? This series, which you can following by clicking on the labels/categories in our side bar, will give you interesting facts about all things military. At eMail Our Military (eMOM) we want to do more than help support our troops, we want to educate people and help them understand about all…
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Ed’s Mixed Bag Memorial Day Podcast Plus
Big thanks to Ed over at Ed’s Mixed Bag for featuring the eMOM podcast promo to support our military service members in his “Memorial Day Plus” Podshow. This show featured feel good music from folks like Joe Colledge, who you’ll be hearing more about very soon! You can visit the site to get the show notes: “Memorial Day, Plus –…
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We Have A Winner
A great big thank you to everyone who entered our contest for the Final Salute book giveaway. We have a winner! (drumroll please…) Congratulations Andy Valadez! You’ve won the autographed copy of Final Salute by Jim Sheeler. We know you’ll be moved by this very powerful book. We’ll be contacting you with the information regarding shipping. For everyone else who…
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Serving Our Country through Social Media
We are at war. Yet, today, through the advances in technology we can do instantly what in previous wars took weeks, even months to achieve – with the click of a mouse, we have the ability to send immediate support to a military service member. We can send morale boosting emails, filled with news from home and feel good stories…
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Win an Autographed Copy of Final Salute
Our good friend Becky of Deep Muck, Big Rake can’t stop raving about the must read book “Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives“ by Jim Sheeler. Jim Sheeler won a Pulitzer Prize for his Veterans Day special report on Nov. 11, 2005, in the Rocky Mountain News on which this book is based. This book is one that will…
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Unconditional Sacrifice
Unconditional SacrificeBy Donette Pustejovsky We worry about violence in movies and video gamesYou deal with violence and death every day We sometimes dread family get-togethersYou wait for months, sometimes years,and hope you will see your family again We dread the morning alarmYou do not sleep to ensure our safety and if you do,you sleep on the ground We reluctantly go…
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Freedom Is Not Free
Freedom Is Not FreeBy LCDR Kelly Strong, USCG I watched the flag pass by one day,It fluttered in the breeze.A young Service man saluted it,And then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniformSo young, so tall, so proud,With hair cut square and eyes alertHe’d stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like himHad fallen…
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How Will You Honor Them
How are you remembering our heroes this Memorial Weekend? How will you honor them on Memorial Day? [ Tags: Memorial Day, National Moment of Remembrance, Military Support, Messages of Support, Troop Support, Moral Support, eMail The Military, eMailing Our Military, Mail Our Military, Mailing Our Military, Mailing The Military, Military Care Packages, Military eMail, Military Pen Pals, Armed Forces, Army,…
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I Hear Bagpipes Crying
Bagpipes CryingBy Rushlow Harris Stumbled across an old green box in my granddaddy’s houseInside was a cross, some old dog tags,and a picture of when he was shipping out.So I showed it to him, said “tell me about those days”When he looked inside, he closed his eyes all he could say was: “I hear bagpipes cryin’ Amazing Grace,Omaha Beach and…
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Memorial Day Facts and History
Memorial Day is a United States Federal Holiday observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, after World War I it was expanded to include…
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