Happy Veterans Day to all that served our country!
And to those returning from recent missions, welcome home.
Here are some random facts.
I thought I would appropriately add some about veterans.
1. There is one veteran left from WWI, though all of USA's are gone now. Florence Green of England is 110 years old. There is a list of the last survivor per country on Wikipedia.
2. According to the Veterans Administration, there are approximately 1.7 million WWII surviving veterans. This diminishes about 740 per day. Many WWII vet records were destroyed in a fire some years ago in Kansas City. I encourage you to have your loved ones "tell their tale" before their story is lost forever.
3. There were 5.7 million Americans served in what has been known as the "forgotten war", or Korean War.
4. During the Viet Nam Era, 9 million Americans served their country, 3.4 million were stationed in SE Asia, and somewhere between 1-1.5 million were in combat or exposed to enemy attack.
5. Recipe: Here are websites you may want to look into for sending cookies to deployed troops. Of course, the best way is to contact the U.S. Post Office and get advice directly from them.
http://www.treatthetroops.org/
www.verybestbaking.com/.../Shipping-Cookies-to-Military-Overseas...
anysoldier.com/howtosend.cfm
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/how-to-mail-cookies-to-the-troops/detail.aspx
#5: Cheryl's cookies ships free to APO's. If you didn't want to bake, or mess with it since they are sealed already it might be a nice option.
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