Lancaster supports active-duty military with letters

  • 2018-08-27
Coming from a military family, Lancaster native Carla Schorr is familiar with the difficulties faced by deployed service personnel. She wanted to let the troops know they weren't forgotten, so she devised “Operation: Letters to Soldiers.”

Schorr has said she is grateful that Lancaster strongly supports its military personnel, displaying their faces on Banners of “Hometown Heroes,” and frequently going to Veterans Square to have lunch. However, she wanted to do something to make people outside the community aware that many troops feel lonely and forgotten, and that's when she came up with “Operation: Letters to Soldiers,” and placed a “mailbox”--not a real post box—in Veterans Square, and invited people to write to service members.

The mailbox was set up in April, and Schorr anticipated she might collect a few hundred letters over the period of several months, if anyone wrote anything. However, after Schorr posted about the project on social media, people throughout the area responded. Schorr also decided the box should be moved to local schools so students could write letters as well. In four months, more than 1,600 letters were written and placed in the box.

Operation: Letters to Soldiers has teamed up with Rise Realty Company, a non-profit organization called Key to Giving, and the USO, which Stamps the letters and sends them to U.S. military members overseas. Initiatives such as this appeal to many people, so organizers like this frequently use poster printing to advertise their efforts.
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