01 Write a letter
The cheapest thing on this site, and the one they keep.
Gear gets used up. Letters get folded into a pocket and carried around for months. A letter costs a stamp, takes ten minutes, and is the one thing here that money can’t do.
Why it matters more now
In 2023 a letter was a morale boost in a tent. In a rehabilitation ward in 2026 it is something else entirely: evidence that somebody who owes you nothing, eight thousand miles away, still knows your name.
We need children’s letters and adult letters. Handwritten, in any language, from anyone. Drawings count — from children they’re often better than words.
Please send these letters to
Agent Ivan6723 Hyacinth Lane
Dallas, Texas 75252
Ideas for what to write — suggestions only, there are no rules:
- Say who you are and where you’re writing from
- Thank them by name if you know the unit
- Let children draw — drawings travel just as well as words
- Keep it short; these get read standing up, or from a hospital bed
02 Challenges
Take a letter challenge
These started in Dallas kitchens and classrooms. Print this page, fill in the blank, and pass it to another family or school.
Family letter challenge
Our family will make and write 18 letters each week for 4 weeks.
72 letters from one kitchen table — enough for most of a unit.
School letter challenge
Our school __________ of Dallas challenges any other school to write 200 letters this week.
Name the school you’re challenging when you send yours in.
03 Where they end up
Letters that were written, and the people who got them
Every photograph here came back from Israel. These are letters this community actually sent.
A letter is free. The recovery isn’t.
Write one — then, if you can, cover part of what it costs to keep a soldier in treatment.