Holiday Mail for Heroes Children Send Christmas Cards to the Troops
By: Stephanie Castillo
Updated: December 15, 2011
If the students at
Medrano Middle School in Dallas have a bad case of writer's
cramp, you'll forgive them.
They've been busy
writing Christmas cards and holiday wishes for the troops.
In the last few weeks they've written 4,388 letters. One student wrote
60 by himself.
"The children got
excited about the program immediately," explains Royalyn Reid,
whose company sponsored the campaign. "Many of them have a parent
serving overseas or know someone whose father or mother has been
deployed. They want to thank them for being away from their families so
that the rest of us can be free to enjoy the holidays
at home."
The school is
hosting an afternoon party to thank the children for creating
such a massive amount of mail and to watch the students turn over the
postal pile to a representative from the USO who will give it to troops
returning to Afghanistan for the holidays.
