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Description

The Hugs Project needs volunteers who can sew and would like to make head and neck coolers for our troops. All you need to get started is a sewing machine, some 100% cotton fabric in desert colors (tan, beige, camel, sand, etc.), polymer crystals like Watersorb and a big, caring heart for some of America's finest young men and women who are serving us in harm's way.

Temperatures in the Middle East top 130 degrees in summer and drop to below freezing in the winter. "Hugs" can cool them off by as much as 5 degrees and save them from dying of heat stroke. they can also be used in winter for warmth. Won't you please help?

In the winter months, we also knit, crochet and machine knit items of warmth like hats, neckwarmers, ski masks and fingerless gloves.

Skills

Sewing, knitting, crocheting, machine embroidery skills can all be used to benefit our troops. Contact TheHugsProject@cox.net for all the info/instructions you need to get started. Check us out at www.TheHugsProject.com .

One remarkable story we heard last year - - -

A Navy medic wrote to tell us he felt our cool ties had saved the life of a young Marine.

He said that we had overestimated the size of his group and so they had 2 each. They always wore one and kept the others in an ice chest so that they could change out for a "cold one".

They came up on a group of Marines huddled around someone lying on the ground. He said the Marines didn't have (couldn't wear?) "hugs" and the A/C in their vehicle was broken. As they approached, someone yelled out "heat stroke". One of the medics grabbed "them things" out of the cooler and they piled them on the chest of the distressed Marine. The medic telling the story said, "we watched his eyes come back".

He's convinced the guy would have died under normal circumstances.

How powerful is that!?!

Please join us in our efforts to let them know that they are NOT forgotten.