http://www.metafilter.com/tags/AdoptASoldier Posts tagged with 'AdoptASoldier' at MetaFilter. Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:39:06 -0800 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:39:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24487/Suffering%2Dknows%2Dno%2Dboundaries%2Dno%2Dideology <a href="http://www.milpagan.org/AS/adopt_a_soldier.html">Adopt-a-Pagan-Soldier</a> - No pagans in foxholes? Think again! Meanwhile, the <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-030305soldier,0,4118409.story">Adopt-a-Soldier movement</a> gains momentum. Heed this well, opponents of the ongoing invasion (or liberation) of Iraq: US troops did not engineer the plan for a <a href="http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm">"Pax Americana"</a> which underlies the US action in Iraq. No, they were pulled away from their families and their jobs, and lack basic necessities: such as <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/mar03/123228.asp. ">SPF-30 sunscreen</a>, and chapstick. Send them a <a href="http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:LcIA9AhY36YC:www.uso.org/pubs/93_325_1391.cfm+U.S+troops,+sunscreen,+Iraq&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">care package</a>. And while you are at it, why not donate to the <a href="http://www.globalissues.net/article/718">UN Refugee Fund</a> set up to cope with an expected 1 millon or so refugees, and a possible <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20303725">humanitarian disaster</a>, in Iraq? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24487 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:39:06 -0800 AdoptASoldier brokenlink CarePackages charity donations Iraq iraqwar pagans soldiers USA troutfishing