This Thanksgiving giant greeting cards featuring the cartoon "Blondie" and signatures of University students will try to brighten the lives of deployed American troops overseas.
To show appreciation to the country's armed forces, the White House Commission on Remembrance has organized Operation Grateful Nation, a pilot program in which 100 greeting cards will be sent overseas.
"We hope that this token of appreciation and touch of home will show them that they are remembered and will boost their morale," Carmella LaSpada, the commission's executive director, said in a statement.
Various groups held card signings for the effort. The House of Representatives and the Senate each contributed a card signed by their members. The Senate's card includes Vice President Cheney's signature.
University students held a card signing in October, coordinated by the Air Force ROTC and the Organization of Women Leaders.
Megan Wernke '03, who led the campus effort, worked with LaSpada during a summer internship to establish Operation Grateful Nation.
After reading letters that soldiers had sent home in response to elementary school kids' letters, Wernke said she noticed how lonely the soldiers were.
"Many of these soldiers are the same age as me and they need to receive letters from people their own age," she said.
Wernke contacted OWL representative Kate Reilly '05 to help organize the card signings.
"I encouraged OWL members to staff tables, sign cards and get involved," said Reilly, who is also a Daily Princetonian columnist.
Wernke organized card signings at the Frist Campus Center, where, during three days in mid-October, approximately 600 students signed the greeting cards.
"Blondie" cartoonists Dean Young and Denis Lebrun created a special holiday cartoon for the greeting cards, which will be sent to tens of thousands of troops in countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in addition to ships operating in the Arabian Gulf and northern Indian Ocean.
Students at Boston College, Penn State University and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington also held card signings on their campuses.
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