Every deployed troop gets one of these at Thanksgiving

A radio show called "The Bert Show," is collecting handwritten thank you letters from around the country. Their goal: That on Thanksgiving, every service person serving outside of the United States will get a handwritten letter of thanks.

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Lauren Ready, USA TODAY - ATLANTA — “Dear soldier, Words cannot express how thankful I am for your service to our country.”

“Dear soldier, I love you. Thank you for protecting our country.”

A nationally syndicated talk radio show out of Atlanta, called The Bert Show, is collecting handwritten thank you letters from around the country. In the weeks before Thanksgiving, dozens of volunteers will pour into the radio station to help read, sort, and pack hundreds of thousands of letters in what they call "The Big Thank You."

Their goal: That on Thanksgiving, every servicemember outside of the United States will get a handwritten letter of thanks like the ones above.

“People really connect with not only the military, but they just connect on a more basic level, that ‘I know what it’s like to be away from my family at the holidays,’” says Bert Weiss, host of The Bert Show. Weiss is proud of the "Big Thank You’s” accomplishments. The show has collected millions of letters over the past five years, even garnering phone calls from President Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama.

Spc. Matthew Brejda received a handwritten letter in 2011 while stationed in Afghanistan. “I picked one up, it turned out to be from a Vietnam veteran,” remembers Brejda. The letter said “hang in there, everything’s going to be alright.” Brejda left his letter at Bagram Airfield so that other soldiers may benefit from the veteran’s encouraging words.

"The Big Thank You" is currently accepting letters to be delivered on Thanksgiving. In order for the letters to be delivered on time, they must be submitted by Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Click here for more information about how to submit a letter to "The Big Thank You."

“It’s really great to get that thank you,” Brejda says. “It really does mean a whole lot that we’re not being forgotten.”

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