Category: H4H Updates

H4H Report 11-4-2017

H4H REPORT November 4, 2017 The Heinlein for Heroes program continues shipping SF books to deployed soldiers, veterans, military families and VA centers all over the world.  In October we shipped 180 fanzines to the 5 VA centers in the Chicago area in addition to our regular shipments.  H4H has become one of our most…
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H4H THANK YOU EMAILS 5-7-2017

H4H Report May 7, 2017 H4H is right on target so far this fiscal year having already completed 200 shipments.  The new total is 10,000.    Do you have extra books that you can send us?  Please ship them to: Heinlein 4 Heroes,  c/o John Seltzer,  2906 Alvarado Dr,  Bellingham,  WA,  98229.   We take cash donations…
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H4H THANK YOU EMAILS (9-5-2015)

  HELLO AGAIN FROM THE H4H SHIPPING CENTER Shipping to our military veterans continues; we have been fully funded for FY2016.  Thanks to everyone who donated money and books to the H4H program.  Please continue to help us as the program continues to grow.  We have now sent over 8,000 books to our troops all…
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LATEST TOTAL SHIPPED AS OF 2-9-2015

The Heinlein 4 Heroes program has shipped a grand total of 6,459 books.  The program has now hit it’s stride and we know we can sustain shipping 3,000 books and 300 shipments per year. Got any old science fiction books?  Ship them to us and we’ll ship them to people from the military who are…
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THANK YOU from the MARINES

This thank you came to Heinlein for Heroes today.  Thanks to everyone that is supporting our H4H program. November 28

LATEST TOTAL SHIPPED as of 11-18-14

The total keeps growing.  We now have shipped 5,419 books.  Special thanks to Geo Rule, Vice-President of The Heinlein Society; he has donated 195 Heinlein books. You can donate too; H4H needs science fiction books and takes audio books.  Even if well worn or slightly damaged we’ll take them.

NUMBER OF BOOKS SENT TO DATE – 10-28-2014

Since the first shipment in November 2013 we have shipped 4,767 science fiction books to the military.  This includes 1,420 mostly hard cover books shipped by The Heinlein Prize Trust.  The Heinlein Society is also pleased to announce the Trust is donating the cost of shipping for the H4H program.  The program is a huge…
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THANK YOU LETTERS.

These thank you notes came recently (10-20-2014) as a result of recent mailings of hard covers from THE HEINLEIN TRUST and THE HEINLEIN SOCIETY.

THANKS TO THE HEINLEIN TRUST

With the shipment of books going to the VA Hospitals today, the trust has shipped 1,420 H4H books, almost all of them hardbacks, to the the men and women of the armed services.   The books including postage were donated by the TRUST and sent out on behalf of THE HEINLEIN FOR HEROES program.

ANOTHER THANK YOU

August 6, 2014 To the Heinlein Society: >             I am writing this letter as an expression of my thanks, for the books you sent to us, the 108th Sustainment Brigade. In the moments of waiting, as are common in military service, the books you sent us provided many hours of entertainment. I specifically enjoyed Heinlein’s…
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H4H Updates

This thank you card came on 6-24-2014.  We shipped her another box of books today.  This is what the H4H program is all about.  RAH would’ve approved. img934

Thanks To the H4H Program

Dear H4H Volunteers and Operation Paperback We have reached another port call during our deployment and waiting for us pier-side was another 3 boxes of books from your organization. Once mail was sorted and we had the chance to open them, several of the crew were pleased and surprised at what was sent. We have…
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The Long Way Around To Pay It Forward by Betsey Wilcox, Lt Col, USAF, NC (Ret)

The Long Way Around To Pay It Forward How a war connected me to Virginia Heinlein and then to other veterans through Heinlein For Heroes. I am a retired Air Force officer who has been reading Robert A. Heinlein books since I was 11 years old. It is safe to say that his writings were…
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H4H Updates

April 18 – H4H has not been shipping recently while we’re building our inventory.  You can help by sending us books.  This thank you came in yesterday. Good afternoon,  I just wanted to send out a huge thank you to all of the people that sent my family books. We are in the middle of…
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