Newspaper Promotes Valentines for Deployed Guardsmen

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The Atlanta Constitution has made available valentines, in its newspaper and on-line for people to let Georgia’s citizen-soldiers deployed in support of Homeland Security and the Global War on Terrorism.

Sample valentines and instructions can be found in the AJC’s Feb. 2 edition or view them online at the AJC web site.

One sample valentine shows a military medal with "I Love you," while another displays an American flag with a heart replacing the blue field of stars. Yet another is a camouflaged heart. All are examples of the special military valentines program designed for Georgia school children to write to deployed Georgia National Guardsmen. The project recently printed in the "News for Kids" section of the Atlanta Constitution was designed to brighten up the Feb. 14 holiday for troops away from home. 

The special kids section that appears each month in the first Monday newspaper will be distributed to schools throughout the state. School classes can copy the sample valentines, write a short note to deployed soldiers, and then bundle them together and send to the nearest Family Assistance Centers whose addresses have been printed in the newspaper. Family Readiness committees will then forward them to our deployed units.