9 Year old Anthony wants to send 1000 Christmas cards to our Military overseas! Help us do it!

                Today, CMS Communications learned about a 9 year old boy who created a heartwarming project. Every year Anthony, a third grader, sends Christmas cards to the United States Military who are overseas.  He arranges meetings at schools, businesses, and organizations to ask them if they will fill out Christmas cards. Anthony then collects them and sends them across the pond to our military that cannot make it home for the holidays. He does this through the Red Cross program ‘Mail for Heroes.’

                Let’s think about that for a minute. You are a soldier stationed in foreign land. The weather around you, clothes you wear and food you are eating, in no way remind you of the approaching holiday. Then one day, the mail comes and you get handed a card. The front of the card features a knoll covered in white, crisp snow and a house glowing with a warm fire.  This isn’t your house but the idea reminds you of Home. Memories of joy and laughter flood into your head and push out the feel of combat boots and smell of gunpowder.  For a moment you glimpse the serene happiness you once felt of a holiday season at home. 

You open the card and inside is something handwritten to you. 

“Thank you for everything you are doing and have done for our country! Your courage is appreciated and your character is noble. Even though you cannot be home, I want you to have a great Christmas and know that you are giving the best gift that anyone could give. There are not enough’ Thanks’ any ONE person can give you for your service. I hope you see this card and can at least feel a little bit of Christmas from home!”

You close the card and maybe even tweak a little smile. Maybe for just a second you forgot about the conditions you are in and feel the world you grew up in as a child. The moment you rode your first bike, kissed your spouse or saw your kids open presents under the tree for the first time.

If only for a second, this is what you thought of when you read this Christmas card…then Anthony, the third grader from Missouri, has fulfilled his goal.

At the cost of 5 minutes from your day, we ask you to make or buy a Christmas card, sign it and drop it off or send it to :

CMS Communications Inc

722 Goddard Ave

Chesterfeild MO 63005

Attn: Dan Bowers

We are helping Anthony attain his goal of sending 1,000 Christmas cards overseas this year. Please drop them off by November 26^th so they can arrive overseas by Christmas. 

What a wonderful gesture for our troops!