Hero Stories for July 2007

Any Soldier Inc. started as a simple family effort to help our son, Army Sergeant Brian Horn, who was one of the 1,000 soldiers who parachuted into Northern Iraq on March 26th, 2003. We knew his unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade was living under very rough conditions, and we were sending Brian care packages as often as we could. We wanted to help the soldiers who were with Brian, so his father, himself a 20-year Army veteran, started this web site on August 26th, 2003, and asked friends and n...

The Operation Hero Miles Story www.heromiles.org By Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (Maryland) "Operation Hero Miles" is an innovative program. It allows troops stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan to fly home on leave for free. It also gives family members of wounded servicemen and women free plane tickets to visit their loved ones recovering at military hospitals across the country. The program is brilliant in its simplicity. Travelers donate their unused frequent flyer miles to the Pentag...

There is an organization that knits and crochets for charities.  It's a simple idea.  Individuals or groups all knit or crochet rectangles of uniform size using any yarn and stitch pattern that results in a piece that fits the measurement of the rectangle. The website is Warm Up America - www.warmupamerica.com.  Maybe you creative folks would like to combine efforts to make afghans and lap blankets for soldiers in area hospitals and rehabilitation centers across the country.  It would be a go...