Anyone reading this 'blog has the opportunity to do a small but immensely powerful thing for American soldiers stationed in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Send them Girl Scout cookies.
These tasty treats from home are so coveted by our troops that I'm told some soldiers actually offer to pay for them.
Locally, the organization Cypress Cares will collect your cookies and ship them to troops. If you don't live in or near the Houston area, you can STILL make sure cookies get to our soldiers by going online to www.cypress-cares.org and making a donation via Paypal. Specify that you want it to pay for postage to send Girl Scout cookies and you'll have done your part.
Flat-rate postage boxes to military personnel cost $12 to mail. Each box will hold roughly six boxes of GS cookies.
If you know of a soldier stationed overseas, or if you have a local program like Cypress Cares that coordinates regular mailings to U.S. troops, ask about donating GS cookies.
You'll be helping out some hard-working Girl Scouts and you'll be blessing the soldiers whose very existence reminds us daily that freedom isn't free.
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