A few weeks back I wrote about supporting our troops overseas. The importance of those letters and packages is massive when you’re a long way from home. It’s so much a part of me that I felt guilty that I hadn’t put any goodies in the mail for a while. This picture tells the tale.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Happy Campers<\/p><\/div> This post is going up on the Marine Corps Birthday because I sent my packages to a Marine Gunnery Sergeant that I know. <\/p>\n Semper Fi, Dusty. You’re in my prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No Sponsorship Sunday this week. We’re celebrating a birthday! So, this will be a quick post. But one that I hope you read and act upon. Please follow me on Twitter, and “Like” the Facebook author page. Don’t forget to …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2618,167,162,2617,2525,2527,922],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-care-packages","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-marine-birthday","tag-soldiers-angels","tag-support-the-military","tag-united-states-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe smiles. The happy looks. The idea that we remembered them. Please take a moment to remember a military member today. Find a friend’s relative overseas and send a letter and a package. Or go to Soldier’s Angel’s<\/a> and donate. But don’t let another day go by without doing something.<\/p>\n