memphiz
06-24-2004, 08:43 PM
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
A grassroots effort has exploded into a massive show of support for Canadian soldiers. Last month, CISN radio put out the call for local school kids to write letters to soldiers overseas. And the kids came through in a very big way.
"Hi, I am a young 9 year old girl in grade 4, I would like to start off by saying you make our country proud."
" I would be scared to do your job. Are you? Please be careful."
"You have a heart of gold, it must be so hard to leave your family...god bless you. Brandyn, Our Lady of the Prairies school, Edmonton Alberta. May peace be with you.”
Words of love and support from the children of our lady of the prairies school. And this morning, the students anxiously wait for their letters to be picked up to send overseas for Edmonton based peacekeepers. It's a campaign called letters from home.
All started by Chris Scheetz from CISN FM.
"It was a country song we play - all about letters to a solider and how they affected him, so we wondered if we did something like that on a grassroots level, and it's taken off from there."
World war two veterans are also along for the ride Sharing their stories with children benefiting from the sacrifices they made. The initial goal was to collect letters for the 3,800 soldiers stationed in Bosnia, Haiti, and Afghanistan. That goal has now been shattered.
"We have maybe double, triple even quadruple that number."
"It's great...it reminds us what we joined for, we joined to protect"
And for these students - It's well worth it.
"God bless our soldiers and god bless Canada! Thanks guys!!"
And with that, the road trip trucks on...to collect more letters from home...at other schools across the Edmonton Area.
If you'd like more information on the "letters from home" campaign
They sent the last letters today and there was 10,000 for the soldiers
A grassroots effort has exploded into a massive show of support for Canadian soldiers. Last month, CISN radio put out the call for local school kids to write letters to soldiers overseas. And the kids came through in a very big way.
"Hi, I am a young 9 year old girl in grade 4, I would like to start off by saying you make our country proud."
" I would be scared to do your job. Are you? Please be careful."
"You have a heart of gold, it must be so hard to leave your family...god bless you. Brandyn, Our Lady of the Prairies school, Edmonton Alberta. May peace be with you.”
Words of love and support from the children of our lady of the prairies school. And this morning, the students anxiously wait for their letters to be picked up to send overseas for Edmonton based peacekeepers. It's a campaign called letters from home.
All started by Chris Scheetz from CISN FM.
"It was a country song we play - all about letters to a solider and how they affected him, so we wondered if we did something like that on a grassroots level, and it's taken off from there."
World war two veterans are also along for the ride Sharing their stories with children benefiting from the sacrifices they made. The initial goal was to collect letters for the 3,800 soldiers stationed in Bosnia, Haiti, and Afghanistan. That goal has now been shattered.
"We have maybe double, triple even quadruple that number."
"It's great...it reminds us what we joined for, we joined to protect"
And for these students - It's well worth it.
"God bless our soldiers and god bless Canada! Thanks guys!!"
And with that, the road trip trucks on...to collect more letters from home...at other schools across the Edmonton Area.
If you'd like more information on the "letters from home" campaign
They sent the last letters today and there was 10,000 for the soldiers