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Trees for Troops You Can Help

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The 2009 Trees for Troops program -- a joint project of the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation and FedEx Freight -- will touch more than 15,000 military families at 53 bases around the world by giving them a free, farm-grown Christmas tree for the holidays. You can help and say thanks to military families this year. Here's how.

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Trees for Troops

You Can Help

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Trees for Troops is…

• A program of the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation with support of U.S. tree growers & retailers & FedEx Freight

• Provides free, farm-grown Christmas trees to military families … all branches of service

• In four years, Trees for Troops has touched lives of 50,082 families around the world

• www.ChristmasSPIRITFoundation.org

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Five Ways To

• Get Cool Stuff • Have Fun• Help the Program• Say “Thank you for your

service”

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T4T Ornaments

• Buy an ornament for yourself $30• Buy two: one for you; one for a military family

$50•  http://bit.ly/1xqThk

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T4T Apparel

• Order Apparel … $5 donation to Trees for Troops for each item purchased

• Products for Good: http://bit.ly/3ZXqGp

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Trees for Troops Weekend

• Buy a tree and put it on FedEx Trailer• At participating farms and lots http://

www.treesfortroops.org/ • Not near a participating lot? Contact them

to pre-order your donated tree

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Donate

• Donate on line: www.treesfortroops.org

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• Locally hosted events (mostly) during week of Veterans Day (Nov 7-14, 2009)

• Honor veterans, support Trees for Troops, have fun

• Examples:– Buffalo Wild Wings, Creve Coeur, MO Nov.

11– UT Federal Credit Union

Host or Attend a Fundraising Event

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Trees for Troops Videos

• Thanks from families http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTlo8zNPXM

• T4T Weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189WYFlmwAQ• T4T Summit Award:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2S_EXBmWMU • TweetUp4Troops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86avbhbEPuk• TweetUp4Troops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=oRLTkdTgxBs • T4T 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddkvf6Kj9HE • T4T 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bvkhxk1r-I • T4T: Nellis AFB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHPIfL3bho • T4T: Ft. Lewis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbk9azqCS-M

Christmas SPIRIT Foundation636/449-5060www.ChristmasSPIRITFoundation.org