Posted: November 9, 2008 - 9:34am

Along the general lines of you don't have to support the war to support the troops, I have long been impressed with the work of a group in the Bay Area called Blue Star Moms (http://www.bluestarmoms.org/), which seems to have affiliates all over. What they do is collect stuff for care packages and send it to service folks overseas. In their case, it's mostly stuff like socks, toiletries, and other fairly practical items.

So I've been having a conversation in a back channel with GOGD, our fellow Head who's currently serving in Iraq, as to whether we could do something of the sort for our fellow Heads and/or their family members in the service.

I haven't thought this through, of course. Clearly we can't do the Blue Star Moms thing of having collection boxes for donations all over town, being in cyberspace, and we're probably best suited to something small scale.

So this topic is for brainstorming and seeing if anything comes of it.