The Troop Greeters are not the only ones with good ideas, and the willingness to put their resources - and their time and efforts - behind their ideas, as Blackfive reminds us:

A chance meeting between a soldier on leave and a fishing guide has blossomed into a community effort to send off troops and welcome them home with gusto.

On Sunday, U.S. Army Spc. Travis Downes, on a two-week leave from Iraq, met Pine Island fishing guide Capt. John "GiddyUp" Bunch. Bunch and Downes' mother are friends. Downes mentioned how much he'd love to go fishing. So Bunch took him on a free chartered fishing trip, worth $495.

The excursion sparked an idea . . . .

A not-so-wild guess on my part is that there is something each one of us can do, in our communities from coast to coast, to say thanks in our own way to these returning heroes.

Send me your ideas.

I'll share them here.

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