DU Help please.

[corporatemedia]

My Mom passed away yesterday.

Does anyone know a good charity that is working to help the returning Iraq vets? Rather than flowers, we would our family to donate to a cause that she believed in.

Although firmly against the war, she was (like all of us) very concerned about the damage being done to our troops.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Rosemary2205]

1. Here is a list to choose from.

http://www.iava.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=37


This is one I support

http://www.bobwoodrufffamilyfund.org/

[Lost4words]

2. Very sorry for your loss!

[Connonym]

3. I'm sorry for the loss of your mother.

Your idea to honor her memory is beautiful.

[salin]

4. Deepest Condolences. The link on Rosemary2205's post

is a really good starting point. Beautiful of you to honor her in this way.

[Lars39]

5. My condolances, corporatemedia.

What a lovely way to honor her beliefs. :hug:

[havocmom]

6. So sorry for your loss.

Sending good wishes as you and yours deal with this.

And THANK YOU so much for honoring her by finding charities to help vets. That must make her soul very happy and proud.

[Emit]

7. Operation Truth

Founded in June 2004, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the civilian supporters of those Troops and Veterans.

http://www.optruth.org/


I'm very sorry for your loss.

[windbreeze]

8. Sorry for your loss...

and Thank You for thinking of our vets...
wb

[corporatemedia]

9. Thank you all for your sugestions and words of comfort ....

We went with the Bob Woodruff group.

We all lost someone good. She was 85, still active, sharp as a tack, a registered democrat, and a super voter - would never even miss a primary.

She was run over by a car driven by an 82 year old woman. My heart goes out to that poor woman. One senior woman's life was ended while another's life was doomed to mental anguish.

When I was a kid, Mom was an Eisenhower Republican. Nothing to be ashamed of there because if today's Republican party was still the party of the 1950s we would be a better country. It was the Republican party that left her. And once they did, her eyes opened further and she became more liberal as her awareness and her age increased.

I got her first computer for her 85th birthday in late February.

I never even got a chance to show her how to email; that was next week's lesson...


Thanks again.