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(If you surfed to this page, came through a link on a different Web site, or from a Web Ring, please be sure to check out the photo album and its linked pages for a visual overview of how the Fan Mail campaign functions. Two JROTC-related Web Rings are at the bottom of this page.)
Participation in Military Mail can
help!
"Military Mail" has been adopted all across the U.S.
as an outstanding and important activity for students at all levels--kindergarten
through college (see "Top Friends"
of Our Troops for a listing of the leading schools).
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Or, it can be just a "fun" project for students, classrooms and campus groups!
After mail from all over the country is put through a double-mixing process in the Military Mail office, packages of letters are mailed in December to 1,000+ places all across the U.S. and around the world. Some schools prominently post maps and pinpoint the locations in the U.S. and overseas from which the students receive responses (see bottom photo). This can be an exciting way to add fun to the study of geography (the students can think they're just having fun!).
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The students of Miss Rita Novak's Grade 4-203 of St. Stephen Campus (Perth Amboy, NJ), in the top half-dozen elementary schools nationally (in the combined Christmas 1997/Valentine 1998 campaigns), enjoy a "cookie and card party" while working on the hundreds of cards and letters they prepared for our military men and women. Miss Novak sent copies of two newspaper items with photos of a Marine officer pen pal who visited the class (see links to the newspaper articles below). "It was a wonderful experience for the kids and 'Lt. Mac', so much so that he intends to keep up the correspondence with next year's class." |
 PTA photo by Sherry Hutchinson |
Special Education students who wrote letters to our service men and women. Copies of some of the thousands of responses received by the students are posted on the bulletin board around the map. Locations from which responses arrived were pinpointed on the map with maptacks. |
(See links to student organizations and suppliers of educational materials at the bottom of the page.)
Information on how to join the Fan Mail campaign is not sent by email. Please click here.
Also, the Friends of Our Troops office is not able to locate individuals.
In real life, Sarge would have received a package stuffed with fan mail (cards and letters)
to share with his buddies--and even with Beetle!
See the news
article about the visit of a Coast Guardsman to a Texas middle
school.
And [two different]
[news articles]
about the visit of a Marine to a New Jersey elementary school.
This Army JROTC Webring site is maintained by Military Mail / Friends of Our Troops.
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Articles of interest:
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Student Organizations: Business Professionals of America DECA Future Business Leaders of America FCCLA (formerly FHA) Interact JROTC Key Club National Beta Club |
Services / Materials / Supplies: Bender-Burkot Education World Homeroom Hungry Minds Kagan Cooperative Learning Lakeshore Basics Library Video Company Steck-Vaughn Stossel in the Classroom |
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