Since the program began in 1996, Operation Uplink has provided more than 7.5 million minutes of free long-distance calling cards to hospitalized veterans and active-duty military personnel and their families.

Today, there are more than two million American heroes, soldiers on active military duty and hospitalized veterans who, as a result of their willingness to serve, now find themselves separated from loved ones. These brave individuals struggle daily with the loneliness that comes from being far from home.

Anxious to help ease the pain of separation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Ladies Auxiliary resolved to bring home a little closer to the men and women who have sacrificed so much for it, by providing courtesy calling cards to hospitalized veterans and active duty troops overseas. Practical and personal, these prepaid phone cards ease the financial strain of long distance telephone calls from around the nation or around the world.

With your donation to OPERATION UPLINK, you give a valuable gift of time ... precious minutes for those all-important, personal calls. Donations can be sent to:

Operation Uplink
VFW National Headquarters
406 W 34th Street, Suite 219
Kansas City, MO 64111