(05/24/2005): Have you donated gmail invites to our men and women overseas? Are you still in contact with them? Have their been any lifelong friends made during our Gmail4Troops experience? We want to hear about it!!!

Send your stories to: DrDrew@Gmail.com with the subject line "Gmail4Troops Story".

We look forward to hearing from you!!!

- Drew

(03/05/2005): As most of us are aware, Google has opened up the floodgates on Gmail Invites. I do get a few requests a day still from our men and women overseas, so this site will stay in place until Gmail is public.

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved again. Anne Mitchell at ISIPP, Wil Wheaton, Mickey Chandler, David Lawrence and Lili from "The David Lawrence Show", and all of you who have contributed.

Gmail4Troops started as a way to get large email accounts to soldiers stationed all around the world. We learned quickly that it was more than that though. It was making a connection with someone who was protecting our country and safety because they chose to do so. I have met some wonderful people in the past 9 months, and I stay in contact with them to this day. Those of you who have kept in contact with your "matched troops", I encourage you to continue to do so, even when the troops come home.

This has been a life altering experience for me, and I want to thank every man and woman who is overseas and defending our country, and those who have come home from doing the same.

Check out AnySoldier.com and MailForSoldiers.com to send care packages to the troops. Also, post any of your success stories here: Message Board

Drew Olanoff

Go over to MailForSoldiers.com for other ways that we can help our troops!

Troops, GI Family members, and Inviters:
You can use a new system donated by ISIPP and Whizardries for requests and invites here: http://www.isipp.com/gmail4troops

Read the recent Stars and Stripes article here.

Special Thanks to Wil Wheaton for spreading the good word on his great site www.WilWheaton.net, and offering his time, ideas, input, resources (and more things than I can list).

We are proud to bring you our new general support site: MailForSoldiers.com. There are other things we can do to support our troops, you'll find that information there!

Post and Request on the Gmail4Troops message board here!

Thanks to the folks over at GmailForTheTroops.com for leaping into action!

Sign up for MindSay so you can read and network with bloggers like Anissa who protect our country.

- Drew

DrDrew@Gmail.com, Drew@zapaloo.com or troops@gmail4troops.com

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