I am in a couple of Yahoo groups that make things and send to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are a lot of those kids (at my age, I call em kids) that have no families, were raised in foster homes. No one to send them even a letter. We send them care boxes of goodies or what ever.
also make and send cool ties and crocheted slippers and hats.
blankets for those wounded. I did not know that if they get their clothes blown off in battle that they have to buy new. So a blanket may be all they have at the time. :cry:
All that to say that most people in those groups are honest but ever so often you find a moocker.