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I’m a liberal. Most of my friends are liberals. One friend saw me putting together care packages last week. I pointed her towards anysoldier.com the other day and suggested that she might like to write to someone, too. She said that she wanted to, but didn’t know how to do it without being a hypocrite. Here’s how:

Dear soldier —

[blah, blah, opening paragraph about how someone put your unit up on anysoldier and why I decided to write to this unit instead of some other one.]

I just wanted to remind you that folks back here haven’t fogotten about you. We appreciate all that you’re giving up to serve your country. At the very least, you’re putting your life on hold to do what your country has asked of you. We won’t forget that you volunteered to be there when your country needed you and we won’t forget what you’re giving now.

Please thank your family for us. Your deployment has to be tough on them, too. Tell them that other Americans are keeping them in our prayers and that we’re ready to help out if we can.

May God bless and keep you,

J.T.

Nothing there about the rightness or wrongness of the war. Nothing about defending freedom, since I didn’t think our freedom was threatened by Saddam. Nothing about anything political. Just a heartfelt thanks for the willingness to do a job, even at great personal sacrifice. Surely we can get over our political differences at least that much.