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Have you received an email stating:
Nice idea!
When you are making out your Christmas cards this year, please include the
following:
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001If you approve, pass it on.
Well according to Snopes – it’s false.
Mail to Wounded and Recovering Soldiers
Walter Reed Army Medical Center officials want to remind those individuals who want to show their appreciation through mail to include packages and letters, addressed to “Any Wounded Soldier” that Walter Reed will not be accepting these packages in support of the decision by then Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Transportation Policy in 2001. This decision was made to ensure the safety and well being of patients and staff at medical centers throughout the Department of Defense.
In addition, the U.S. Postal Service is no longer accepting “Any Service Member” or “Any Wounded Service Member” letters or packages. Mail to “Any Service Member” that is deposited into a collection box will not be delivered.
Instead of sending an “Any Wounded Soldier” letter or package to Walter Reed, please consider making a donation to one of the more than
Other organizations that offer means of showing your support for our troops or assist wounded servicemembers and their families include:
http://www.usocares.org/
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers/
http://www.redcross.org
For individuals without computer access, your local military installation, the local National Guard or military reserve unit in your area may offer the best alternative to show your support to our returning troops and their families. Walter Reed Army Medical Center will continue to receive process and deliver all mail that is addressed to a specific individual.
As Walter Reed continues to enhance the medical care and processes for our returning service members, it must also must keep our patients and staff members safe while following Department of Defense policy. The outpouring of encouragement from the general public, corporate America and civic groups throughout the past year has been incredible. Our Warriors in Transition are amazed at the thanks and support they receive from their countrymen.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Hi Father Dan,
These holes in the universe cannot indicate the existence of more universes. The prefix “uni” means ONE. So, the most that can be said is that scientific definition of the universe will be modified, perhaps considerably.
However, by definition, there can only be one universe. Perhaps we would call these places new realms, or new worlds.
Thank you,
Sairaj
November 27th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Although you intended to comment on this post . .
. . It’s actually Middle English, from Latin universum, from neuter of universus entire, whole, from uni- + versus turned toward, from past participle of vertere to turn
The term has obviously evolved since it was coined. No-one ever expected or could image there were multiverses – now that science has progressed we just go with “multiple universes” or the multiverse, our universe being one of them.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I am sorry for commenting on the wrong post.
OK, but this messes up the metaphysical principle of materialism–not to be confused with economic, psychological materialism. If the universe is not the whole, then a spiritual universe, or spiritual planes of existence, will once again seem credible. (Just look at how Ceepak Dopra and his guru ga-ga kind have profited from quantum theory.)