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THE PLEDGE DRIVE IS ON!!!
Greetings from HeroToHero.US!
And a very Happy New Year to each of you. We here in the Pacific Northwest are praying for peace, and safety for our first responders.
There have been three memorials here in the past 2 months for 6 of 8 law enforcement officers who were all ambushed while on duty. Life has been surreal here. So folks, let's be lot nicer to each other, and be sure to thank a first responder ... Chances are, if they haven't touched you personally, they have touched the life of someone you love.
We're asking each of you to be our partner in the Pledge Drive for the troops. People ask how they can help us as we are into our SIXTH year, and the answer is EASIER than ever!
Here's the deal ...
When we changed the program to accommodate my physical limitations since developing OA in my knees, one of the fallout effects was that folks assumed the program had gone away. The reality is that to keep the program going there was a complete overhaul that had to happen. Basically, all of the physical components had to be eliminated. This means, no more (inter)national annual tours, no more collecting the shirts here, no more PackOuts, and no more after parties. I know, a lot of "no's" in there, and it really had a negative impact on me for a while. So how'd we overcome all of that?
We tore the program apart, down to the basics. The whole idea at the start was to get first responder shirts to desert-deployed hometown troops - They're all from a hometown somewhere.
Okay, so why not take out the physical middle man, so to speak ... Meaning, us. We have contacts from departments all over North America, and we have many contacts from deployed troops on an ongoing basis.
This works out on so many levels ...
1. The shirts ship only once. Rather than shipping a load of shirts here to us, you
Pledge to give your shirt if a hometown troop makes a personal request through
us. This means the cost drops immensely.
2. Stress is taken off the departments/agencies/unions to send a large number of
shirts. You Pledge your shirt on a one to one basis.
3. You will have DIRECT contact with the troop making the request. No more
wondering "Who got my shirt?"
4. If we can get the Pledges we need, the troop(s) getting your shirt(s) will be from
your hometown - and perhaps your own neighborhood! This is the reason our
database is being built on your station zip code and the closest high schools.
5. You can tailor the items you send. You are committing to one signed
department logo'd shirt. But if after corresponding with your hometown troop,
you find that maybe they are part of a small unit, you might be able to toss a
couple additional items their way.
6. Once the adoption is set, you can get your your neighborhood involved, or even
the whole town. let the kids draw pictures for them, or write them letters. Make
it a community event, have the neighbors stop by to sign the shirt(s) you'll be
sending - take pictures. Or you can sand the one, the option is yours ... The
choices are limitless.
So how can YOU help?
Volunteers, just get the link for the Pledge out to every first responder you can find. Make sure that no hometown troop will not find their hometown showing their support. Ask your local community relations officer if they have signed up yet.
First responders ... PLEDGE!!!!! It'll take two minutes, and that's with the extra 30 seconds to send the link on to all of your contacts. ( ;
We will be posting a map when we get a good start on the hometown Pledges. Don't assume your department is signed up - We'll take care of redundancies. Better to have too many, than too few.
FYI: The info we gather is never shared. We are proud of our track record since the war began.
This is the easiest volunteerism you'll ever do ... PLEASE HELP!
Thanks,
lj
http://www.herotohero.citymax.com/PLEDGE.html 
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