Cardstore.com Helps President Honor Our Troops

This 4th of July; Special Thank You Cards Can Be Personalized Online by Friends and Family; Cardstore.com Will Then Print and Mail These Real Cards Anywhere in the World

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- As part of Cardstore.com's participation in America Supports You, a nationwide Department of Defense program that showcases America's support for the men and women of the Armed Forces, the company is offering its greeting card service free to our forward deployed service men and women, and at a heavily discounted price of 99 cents for friends and families.

Cardstore.com makes it easy to recognize our troops this Independence Day. Friends and family can visit www.cardstore.com  and select a card from the online collection or create their own by uploading a photo; and then add a personal note to the inside. Upon receipt of the order, Cardstore.com prints and mails a real greeting card to the service members.

To take advantage of the program, friends and family need to enter promotion code july4th at checkout. 

This is the third America Supports You program offered by America's leading online greeting card store. "Based on the great response we received for our Mother's Day and Father's Day programs, it was obvious that our troops and their families appreciated this better way of sending real greeting cards. Thus, we decided to add the July 4th promotion," said Al Hulvey, Cardstore.com CEO.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Allison Barber said, "We are thrilled that Cardstore.com is continuing to support our military men and women and their families through another great program. Our troops overseas and across the world will truly appreciate these cards thanking them for defending our freedom."

About America Supports You

Since the launch of the America Supports You program last November, more than 2.2 million Americans, including individual citizens, businesses and organizations, have logged onto AmericaSupportsYou.mil to register the activities and projects in their communities that show their support for America's Armed Forces, especially those serving in harm's way. To learn more about America Supports You and the stories of Americans supporting the troops, visit www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil.

About Cardstore.com

Cardstore.com is the leading online provider of personalized, custom-printed greeting cards and post cards; a service that helps people use the Internet to manage personal and business relationships more effectively. The Company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA. For more information visit www.cardstore.com.

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Link to the Presidential Pray Team Adopt a Troop prayer wall.  Post a prayer, see the pictures and tributes, submit a military unit or individual for prayer, check it out.

thedean1 - Great Job! I'm not sure a sports web site is the place for this, but regardless the message was heard and seems to be being heard. Good Job!

I served 8 years in the Army -  42IDHQ

A Hearty Thank You To ALL Our Beloved Veterans! Without you we wouldn't have what we have! May God grant you safety!

Missing in America Project

The military burial is how our nation shows gratitude to the men and women who have faithfully defended our country. Yet so many veterans have been forgotten. They can be found on mortuary shelves, in cans or boxes. They were homeless, or without family, or just forgotten by their family and remain unclaimed.

That is until the Missing in America Project (MIAP) came into existence. Our mission is to locate, identify and inter, with honor, every veteran languishing on a mortuary shelf. We have learned there are no laws requiring a coroner or a mortuary to verify whether someone ever served in the military. Until that verification is done, arrangements cannot be made for interment in a national cemetery, with honors. Unless this is done these men and women, who served our great nation, will remain on a dusty shelf.

It is MIAP’s belief the ashes of our veterans, forgotten or ignored by their families, are spread all across this country, from state hospitals to funeral homes. MIAP has spent the last year visiting funeral homes nationwide, asking to be let in to identify these veterans so they can get them properly buried in a national or state cemetery. It's a challenging task, considering not all the nation's 45,000 funeral homes are willingly opening their doors to show what's in their back rooms.

In a year, MIAP has located, identified and interred 101 veterans with honors.
There's much more to do. Thousands of America's war veterans are warehoused in back rooms, dusty basements and closets waiting for a proper burial. It's a monumental effort, but MIAP feels it's the right thing to do and will remain in existence until it is assured every veteran has been located. The latest news is on a Memorial Service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

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In an interview given to CBS13, Mr. Salanti said "We have veterans that want to be taken care of," he says. "If we want to mouth the words that we're patriots, if we want to mouth the words we want to honor and respect our veterans, then let's do it for all of them. The ones left on the shelf, and the current ones." You can view the interview at

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MIAP is in need of volunteers to locate our forgotten veterans, cash donations to keep it operating as it needs funds to pay fees for burial and maintain liability insurance, and for volunteers to educate the public to righting a wrong; namely, ensuring our veterans are buried with honor.

If you would like to learn more about MIAP, please visit our website at www.miap.us

I am speechless.

TD1