Northwest, Pan-Am, and Southwest.
This is a really great cause. For those who fly more than a little,
especially those who fly often for work and rack up frequent flyer miles
like crazy, yes, saving up miles for the all-inclusive trip to Tahiti for
you and a loved one IS a worthy cause, but I submit that this may very well
be even more worthy. A chance to donate your miles to a soldier who is
thousands of miles away from his family, who fights for and defends
freedom, who dodges and returns bullets facing forces of evil squarely in the eye, reigning down freedom and liberty upon oppressed people. These soldiers, who may have not been home for close to a year, who have never held their brand new babies, whose children and spouses miss terribly, whose mom and dads pray for incessantly, whose brothers and sisters proudly speak of . . . they can be benefitted by donating your miles to them. In the little time that they may be granted leave from overseas, some of them cannot afford to fly home because of the cost incurred. I think DOD will be paying, now, for their full trip home, but I am not sure if it is in the works yet, and as I understand it, it is a reimbursement program. So, if the soldiers don't have the money or miles in the first place, they can't fly home. Hostile fire zone pay or whatever it is called simply does not pay enough for all of this. If any of you have more than a few miles racked up in your account, it is a gesture worthy of consideration. Send a soldier home to be with his family.


http://www.heromiles.org/