Send A Soldier A Digital Photo Frame Loaded With Family, Friends, Home, and Memories
Yesterday was the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month: Veteran’s Day. Whatever your opinion might be about the military, I think it only proper to honor those men and women who put themselves in harm’s way in order to make the world safe for us all.
Many people are wondering what to send a serviceman or woman who is stationed on the other side of the planet. I have a suggestion.
Send them a digital picture frame, fully loaded with pictures of friends, family, hometown sights, and mp3’s with sentimental associations. Let others help you load it; ask your soldier’s friends, significant other, teachers, pastors, employers. . . others will have insight into your soldier that nobody else will have. Put it all into the digital frame, along with voice messages from loved ones.
Wrap it well and send it soon. It takes a long time for mail to get to the other side of the world.
A wireless/digital photo frame is always going to be the gift of choice for most people. Why not send a wireless/digital photo frame to a soldier, so he/she can see AND hear the people and sights from back home?
Wireless/digital photo frames, especially the smaller ones, are lightweight and easy to pack, wrap, and ship. Just be sure to surround the box with LOTS of padding. You might also choose a frame that can run on batteries, as well as AC. And send lots of batteries. Soldiers can always use batteries!
Many soldiers have a Facebook account, remember, and if you have FrameChannel, you can load that account up with pictures, too.
Opening a box of friendly faces and familiar places and music that brings back memories might be the best of all possible Christmas presents for a soldier stationed far, far away from all three of those things.
It’s the best of all possible Christmas presents for anybody, in fact.
Watch the ads! Wireless/digital photo frames are THE HOLIDAY GIFT of the season, and they’re on sale in most stores now. But get yours while you can; they’re still flying off the shelves.
Send one to a soldier. Seriously, it would be the greatest gift EVER.
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Heather K. wrote at December 17th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Jane,
This is a great idea. I never even thought of these frames for soldiers, which is dropping the ball on my part as I am married to one. Lol.
Anyhow, I just wanted to let people know that they can order frames from my store, I just started to put them up, so be patient and I will add as many as I can per day. I donate 10% of my proceeds to the Disabled American Veterans Fund (DAV). The site is http://www.Stars-Over-Ireland.com.