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Senior citizens of the Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program (RSVP) in Washington expected nothing in return when they sent handmade greeting cards last March to servicemen on board a destroyer in Beirut Harbor. What they received, however, was a personal letter of thanks from the ship’s commanding officer and several gifts, each a token of the crew’s appreciation.
The senior citizens had been encouraged by Jeaide McNear, volunteer coordinator for RSVP, tomake the greeting cards. Whenthey did, each added his or her own personal touch. Some wrote notes or prayers; others sketched designs or drawings. The cards were mailed just before Easter.
“Some of the cards and personal notes were really dear,” McNear offered. “(This type of thing) helps them get outside of themselves, to think of others.”
The idea was to let servicemen in Beirut know that others were thinking of them—that they had not been forgotten. According to McNear and Carolyn Seabed, director of RSVP for Planning District 9, sending greeting cards was an extentkui of “Operation Shoestring,” begun last year by Bill and Nancy Lancaster of Boston.
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