Soldiers' Angels
by Bruce Eberle
Issue 95 - November 7, 2007

Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Patti Patton-Bader, mother of Sgt. Brandon Varn, who recently returned home from a years deployment to Iraq. Soldiers' Angels is a national organization with members in all fifty states and Puerto Rico, and several friendly countries who support our brave men and women in uniform as they carry out their mission. Soldiers' Angels was incorporated in the state of Nevada in June of 2003. Soldiers' Angels mission is to provide aide and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard and their amazing families. The slogan describes the motivation behind Soldiers' Angels. By working together and sharing a common vision of service, the volunteers of Soldiers' Angels send care to deployed soldiers and their loved ones at home.

To date its volunteers have sent tens of thousands of care packages and hundreds of thousands of letters to our deployed heroes; they have helped those who have been wounded with our First Response Packs directly at the Combat and Support Hospitals (CASH) and at the major hospital in Germany, as well as providing care and comfort to those who are now in our military hospitals here at home; they have provided aid to military families in need; they have provided flights to soldiers on leave or in emergency situations and to their families to be with their loved ones upon return from Iraq and Afghanistan; they have provided level III KEVLAR Armor blankets to provide our heroes with some protection in their vehicles when it was needed; they help to honor the families whose loved ones have paid the ultimate price for our freedom and safety. This and much, much more has been accomplished by the many volunteers of this organization with the assistance of our generous supporters on behalf of the grateful citizens of the United States of America.

From its very inception, the focus of Soldiers' Angels has been:

Helping to bring home healthy soldiers.

"May No Soldier Go Unloved"

Its founder, Patti Bader, has been nominated for very special recognition. It is an amazing story of how she founded Soldiers' Angels and now provides incredible support for our troops in the field. Soldiers' Angels has 145,000 volunteers and the work they do is beyond words. Their web site is http://www.soldiersangels.org/.

I hope you will consider going to http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/federal/aboveandbeyondthankyou.mspx and voting for Patti.