We Are Thankful For Your Help!

Dear Friends of the American Legion Children's Home,

We are so grateful for your support! Thank you for the letters, emails and Facebook postings. Thank you for the inspired media coverage, news stories and letters to Editors. Thank you for all the red bows and signs around our community. Thank you for standing in the cold at American Legion District Meetings and decorating your cars in support of our children. Thank you for designing, writing, copying, collating, addressing and mailing hundreds of documents and fielding thousands of phone calls. Most especially we thank you for your prayers. We could not enter this season of Thanksgiving and Advent without letting you know how much we appreciate you and how much hope you have given us. We know we are not in this cause alone! We thought you would like to know the results of your many efforts:

· Children's Home Angels has garnered more than 2,300 members from all across the nation, in less than three weeks.
· Over 400 letters of support have been forwarded to the American Legion Oklahoma Department Executive Committee.
· Two law firms have stepped forward to assist us, pro bono.
· On Tuesday, November 23rd, the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office filed and Kay County Judge D.W. Boyd granted a Temporary Restraining Order on any disposition of Children's Home property or assets.
· Legionnaires and Auxiliary members from many states are expressing their concern and support to their leaders.
· Direct descendents of our original benefactor, E.W. Marland, are standing with us! They become the heirs of the ALCH property should it cease to exist as a childcare facility. They were moved by your letters and show of support and by the letters of three of our kids who wrote to them, asking them to save the only safe and loving home they have ever known. The Marland heirs wish to see the campus continue as a public charitable home for neglected and abused children.

And, here's what you can continue to do to stay in the fight,

· If you haven't seen a news account in your local paper or on your TV station, send letters to your editors with your concerns. We have fact sheets and other documents to help you craft your comments, should you wish.
· Send copies of your letters to editors to the savethechildrenshomeangels@yahoo.com.
· Expand our network by recruiting your friends and neighbors to our Facebook cause page Save the Children’s Home Angels.
· Visit our website www.savethelegionkids.com

In other words, keep those posts, emails and letters coming, folks! We appreciate you more than words can express and hope you and your family enjoy a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,

Diane Beekman - Becky Davis - Amanda Doran - Tina Clonts
Children's Home Angels Founders