Please Honor America's True Heroes, Our Servicemen and Women deployed all around the world

Sponsored By: Senator Jane Clare Orie, Majority Whip

The Reach Out and Touch a Hero Program was launched in 2003 by having local citizens bring "care packages" and cards to be sent to our deployed members of all military branches. Through the years the program as expanded to the web. The Reach Out and Touch a Hero Website offers the opportunity to school students and their families, as well as other members of the community, to send messages to our servicemen and women who are currently deployed all around the globe. Since the beginning of the program it has been a pleasure connecting our communities young people with our Nations True Heroes!

Senator Orie with representatives of the Armed Forces and local students at the 2006 Reach Out and Touch a Hero Press Conference.

If you would like to send a Holiday message to a soldier, please click on the Send a Message link on the left. In doing so, your message will be randomly assigned to one of the more than 700 soldiers currently deployed from Southwestern Pennsylvania for whom we have acquired e-mail addresses.

You may view soldier replies by clicking on the Forum link on the left.

Please check back often to see if a soldier has replied to your message. Responses are posted as soon as they are received.