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Valentines for Vets Delivers Expressions of Love, Support, Appreciation to Veterans for Valentine's Day Generation Opportunity, a rapidly growing organization with over 2.3 million Facebook fans that is mobilizing young adults through a strategy based on social media and ground operations, is proud to announce its new "Valentines for Vets" initiative for Valentine's Day 2012. More at: Valentines for Vets Delivers Expressions of Love, Support, Appreciation to Veterans for Valentine's Day | Christian Activities

Christmas in Iraq - a Poem with Photos by Kathryn E. Darden - YouTube Skin, Health & Beauty editor Kathryn E. Darden wrote "Christmas in Iraq" in 2005 for a soldier and his troop she was sponsoring at the time. Since then the poem has been recorded on numerous radio stations and published on over 100 publications and websites. Merry Christmas to our servicemen and women wherever they are posted from Skin, Health & Beauty. We wish then a healthy and happy holiday season and a Merry Christmas! Read the poem : 1 Christmas in Iraq - a Christmas Poem for Our Soldiers

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in an Iraqi Town Christmas in Iraq   is a poem written for a soldier and his troop I sponsored in Iraq in 2005. It is my hope that this poem and others like it will be forwarded to our military men and women during the Christmas season so they will know they are not forgotten during the holidays. 'Twas the night before Christmas in an Iraqi town; And our brave U.S. forces had all just hunkered down. Not a Humvee was moving, not a Jeep stirred the sand As troops dreamed of their homes, each and every man. Some longed for their sweethearts, other men missed their moms, Others missed sons and daughters not seen for so long. Sugarplums would be nice, but much nicer to be At home with their loved ones 'neath their own Christmas tree. When what to their wondering ears should be heard, But the faint sounds of carols, music and joyful words. At first heard so faintly, then the sound grew and grew -- The sound of your loved ones s...

A poem of encouragement for our military troops in Iraq and all over the world during the Christmas holidays, this poem was published on the old Associated Content/YCN site on 11-13-2008 where it garnered 4,529 page views before the site shut down in July 2014. "Christmas in Iraq" 'Twas the night before Christmas in an Iraqi town; And our brave U.S. forces had all just hunkered down. Not a Humvee was moving, not a Jeep stirred the sand As troops dreamed of their homes, each and every man... To read the entire poem, please go to "Christmas in Iraq" Feel free to forward this link to any military men and women during the holidays