***update: use this address***

Col. Wade F. Dennis
JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360

Bruce Kesler e-mails:

Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a sometime blogger here at Democracy Project and a personal friend. Gordon writes frequently and passionately about American forces serving around the world, and the email below, sent from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tells of a neglected band of brothers who receive fewer Christmas cards from the American people than those stationed at other locales: the guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Worse, they receive more abuse from the press, in spite of the documented fact that they are subject to constant abuse from the terrorists they guard.

As if that isn’t enough, last Christmas the terrorists held there received no fewer than 14,000 pieces of mail at Christmas, and they’re expected to receive 16,000 this year. All while our troops there are, for the most part, overlooked even by those of us here at home who support their mission.

Gordon gives the address to which you may send cards at the end of his essay, but here it is again:

“Any Trooper, JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360″

Col. Wade F. Dennis
JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360

Writes Gordon:

Never in human history have enemy combatants been kept in conditions of safe, humane care and custody as are found here. Detainees receive quality of food, medical treatment, legal assistance, and due process better than they have ever been exposed to in their terrorist lives. They not tortured or abused, but are treated with far more kindness than any prisoner who has ever been unfortunate enough to be in their cruel clutches.

But still our gallant troopers are maligned, slandered, insulted, and spit upon. And not only by the terrorists here, but also–shamefully–by many of those at home.

Let’s turn this sad situation around. If the detainees are going to receive 16,000 pieces of holiday mail from misguided Americans let’s make sure that our troops get ten times that from loyal, patriotic Americans! America, you’ve been asking to do something positive in this war and here is an easy opportunity to do something to make the lonely holiday season bright for our men and women in Guantanamo.