ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 11, 1996 TAG: 9602130087
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A11 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
SOURCE: THE BOSTON GLOBE
A national campaign is being launched to send valentines to troops serving in the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, and a Massachusetts paper company is sending them stationery so they can write back.
Rep. James Longley, R-Maine, called on Americans to participate in ``Operation Valentine,'' a campaign run by No Greater Love, a humanitarian organization, to send morale-boosting valentines to military personnel in the Balkans.
Rep. John Olver, D-Mass., announced that Crane & Co. of Dalton, Mass. is donating 80,000 pieces of stationery to U.S. troops in Bosnia.
Crane sent stationery to troops during Operation Desert Storm in 1990.
Longley, a Marine Corps reservist who served in the Gulf War, said the valentines should be addressed generically and posted with first-class stamps.
The address for Army, Air Force and Marine land forces is:
No Greater Love
c/o Operation Joint Endeavor
APO AE 09391
For Navy and Marine mobile forces the address is:
No Greater Love
c/o Operation Joint Endeavor
FPO AE 09392
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