This is one of the greatest things I have even seen the USO do. Its a program where a soldier reads a childerns book and its filmed during the process. The USO then sends the book and the video to the his or her kids so they have dad or mom reading them a story. Unfortunatly for many of these kids it will be the last thing they ever get from that parent and it will be something to keep for the rest of thier life.

A local kid is making his project to become an Eagle Scout to get 1800 books for this project. Help me help him blow away his goal.

http://bensarmy.org/Home.html

 

Done thanks for the link- Great scout project

 

thanks !!its a great cause that I highly encourage everyone to get involved with it.

 

I'm having trouble with the links to "recommended books" but I'll keep trying.

Thanks for posting this Richard. A simple way to make a difference in childrens lives. John

 

Awesome project.
My son is currently a life scout and will be getting into his project next year.
Scouting is a great program.

 

Awsome. I am an Eagle Scout and I worked for the BSA for a time. It is definitely a good program.

 

I have added it to my company Facebook account.

http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Goff...7581758?ref=ts

 

My Daughter just made her Gold Award, ( same as an eagle scout for Girl Scouts LOL)

truly some excellent people associated with scouting, and what a very worthwhile project!! Thank you Richard for pointing us to it!