District 205 Students Create Holiday Cards For Soldiers

ELMHURST, IL — Jackson Elementary School students created over 500 holiday cards that will be mailed to U.S. soldiers who are stationed overseas and can’t be home for the holiday season. The district said some of the cards will be sent to the 10,000 For the Troops campaign, a joint effort between local radio station US*99 and the USO of Illinois Great Lakes Naval Base.

Additional cards will go to Illinois First Lady Diana Rauner’s Cards for Heroes program, a partnership between the United Service Organizations (USO) of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs, and the Illinois Executive Mansion Association.

According to the district, the cards were written by students in all grade levels, thanking the soldiers for their service and letting them know that someone is thinking of them back home. The Jackson Student Council helped collect and count the cards before mailing them.

Photos provided by District 205.