Being a single parent is hard. Being the child of a single parent, can even be harder. Many children face extremely emotional situations when a parent is deployed to combat and shares the risk of never returning home again.
In order to alleviate some of the child’s emotions, the Dog Tags for Kids Project (DTFK) is dedicated to helping US Service men and women who are sent abroad on high risk projects connect with their children at home. Specially engraved dog tags in their appropriate service color are sent to the child of the parent serving, FREE of charge. As of September 2010, DTFK has delivered approximately 572,879 tags into the hands of hopeful children!
While the tags can have some personalization, all are engraved with “Mom” or “Dad” and display their military branch and the location of where they are serving. While the DTFK Project cannot completely alleviate the trauma from a child facing separation issues from its parent, it serves to re-connect the parent with the child to demonstrate that home is only where the heart is. Please bring our troops home safely! Have YOU helped save the world today?
For more information, visit: www.dogtagsforkids.org
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