As some of you might know, Operation Love From Home is a "grassroots" organization that began in March of 2008. Our President, Momma Kat, has been conducting card drives on her own for a couple of years, but she decided that she needed help. Enter the Board of Directors (you can read about us all on the "About Us" page). We started out with a shoestring budget, card stock that we cut and stamped to make cards, and a dream that we could make sure that every soldier would have at least one piece of mail to read for the holidays.
Our website, since going live a couple of months ago, averages about 300-400 hits per day. Imagine our surprise when we found out that yesterday, we were visited by over THREE THOUSAND people!! Not to mention that we got in over 200 e-cards for our troops yesterday alone! Up until yesterday, we'd only collected a little over one hundred in the month or so that the option has been available on our website.
We don't have an advertising budget...so somebody out there is really talking us up. Someone blogged about us, or sent out an email with our web address, or even told a friend about a site they found to send a card to a soldier. Someone else saw what we were trying to accomplish here, and decided to help us out by spreading the word - after all, we can't do this by ourselves! There are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in remote and dangerous areas all over the world, and we could never dream of bringing them cards and packages without the help of people like you!
So whoever you are, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your kind words of support in our Guest Book mean so much to all of us that have put in hours and hours of work to make this organization a reality. Thank you for helping us to bring a smile and a little bit of "LOVE FROM HOME" to our brave men and women fighting for our very freedom every day.
Melissa
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