It's a lonely job; a dangerous one. Put yourself in the scene. It's 120-degrees and you're loaded down with heavy gear. You're 7,000 miles away from home and family. Danger lurks around every bend in the road. You're birthday has come and gone, and Christmas and Easter and Mother's Day and Father's Day too. You carry a rifle, drive a jeep or fly a plane. You're a tank jockey, a mine sweeper, or flight line mechanic. You're a patriot, a soldier, a warrior. You're one of the 200,000 plus troops of the U.S. military deployed in Iraq and/or Afganistan. It's a dirty job. Chances are you didn't ask to be there. In some ways it is a thankless job. Often times you are under equipment and certainly outnumbered. And in spite of your military fire power and high-tech arsenal, you and your buddies are shot at, targeted by bombers and terrorists and civilian police radicals most every day. Now imagine this: A truck arrives outside your barracks or encampment. It's loaded down with small cardboard boxes. Inside are "care" packages from home. Not from family, mind you, but from strangers, from Americans who understand and support your unselfish effort to serve your country. In the little boxes, inside the care packages, are various items like personal care products, CDs, DVDs, snack foods, magazines, handmade posters and cards each with a message from caring people back home. Imagine how much this would mean to you to know that someone cares. That's what Operation Interdependence is all about, a civilian-to-military delivery system that serves as a program for Americans to demonstrate their support for our deployed military. And the time is now. Operation Interdependence (OI) is currently collecting civilian care packages for distribution to deployed U.S. troops with collection points set up nationwide. Needed donated items include personal letters and cards that express your sentiment and support for the soldiers efforts. Cash donations can be substituted and will be used to pay for postage to send the boxes, or care packages, to the field. For more information about Operation Interdependence and how you can become a part of this remarkable program, visit the OI Web site at oidelivers.com.