A bouquet of flowers is still one of the most romantic and meaningful gifts you can give. Receiving a bouquet of flowers is a thrilling moment, and the roses can brighten a desk or house for weeks. Admittedly, it gets a little old to give the same red roses year after year. Which is why [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Veterans and Military'
Tie-Dyed Roses in Red, White and Blue or any color of the rainbow.
November 4th, 2012 · No Comments · USO, Veterans and Military
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Patchwork Road’s Meaningful Marketplace – Unique Gifts That Help Charity
September 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Children's Charities, Developing Areas, Domestic Violence, Education, Poverty, Veterans and Military
Here’s a fantastic new shopping site that you should definitely check out. It’s called PatchworkRoad.Com, and it just launched yesterday. There are certainly a lot of marketplaces out there that donate a portion of proceeds to charity. But right away this one feels very different. Instead of dumping you into a huge morass of affiliate [...]
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Support the Guided Dog Foundation…and a 43 year old who’s trying to pretend to be a 21 year old
September 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Animal Causes, Disability, Veterans and Military
Well, the last two posts have been on somewhat controversial topics, and so I thought I’d dedicate this post to something as non-controversial as you can get: PUPPIES!!!!! Each year the Guided Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs holds a bike tour. I posted in 2009 how my then-girlfriend (and now-fiance) Lisa rode the 10 mile [...]
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Navy SEAL’s Account of the Bin Laden Raid: No Easy Day – Book Available for Pre-Order Now
August 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Veterans and Military
As divided as the country is today, the country stood together that September day in 2001 when President Bush shouted to the Ground Zero workers and to the world that “the people responsible for knocking these buildings down will be hearing from all of us soon”. And likewise, the country stood together when President Obama [...]
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This July 4, support the troops with this fantastic deal from LivingSocial
June 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Veterans and Military
For the next week, if you click over to LivingSocial’s National Deals page, you’ll see a wonderful offer where you can pay $25 to LivingSocial, and they’ll turn that into a $50 donation to the USO to purchase care packages for troops stationed far away to remove them of home and to let them know [...]
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Download Jim Gaffigan’s Latest Album, Help a Great Cause, Screw the Middleman #hotpockets
April 19th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Veterans and Military
I’ve been a huge fan of Jim Gaffigan since before the days he was fighting crime with Conan O’Brien and his freakish pale-white skin. Since then, I’ve seen him in concert in 2008 and 2010 and even saw him on Broadway last year. While my friend Jack and I used to attend a lot of [...]
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Christmas Lights for Charity
December 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Children's Charities, Veterans and Military
Who doesn’t love driving around and viewing great Christmas lights? Something neat that a lot of families who set up elaborate Christmas lights displays is set up collections for charity. Lately, a lot of them have been posting videos and collecting donations online for those who can’t drive to their part of the world to [...]
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Host a Event for the Wounded Warrior Project
November 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Veterans and Military
Over the last two years we’ve seen a lot of citizens out on the streets demonstrating and voicing their opinions about this country and its government. It’s easy to take for granted that there are still hundreds of governments around the world where such dissent would be quickly, swiftly, and quietly shut down. Veteran’s Day, 11-11-11, [...]
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Free calls home for military personnel from overseas
September 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Veterans and Military
As much flak as Google’s been getting lately for their various missteps as a behemoth corporation, here’s something really nice they’ll be doing at least through the end of 2011. For any troops overseas with a .mil email address, Google is letting them call back home to the United States for free, as long as [...]
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Patriotic Sheet Music that Supports WWII Veterans
June 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Veterans and Military
67 years ago six days ago was D-Day, when 175,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to free Europe and the world of the nightmare that was Nazi Germany. As we sit comfortably in our world today, one can only wonder. What would the world have looked like if those young soldiers had not [...]
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