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Wish I'd heard about this when I was in Baghdad:
Operation Happy Note sends free musical instruments to deployed servicemembers wherever they’re stationed.I wouldn't have had to wait til I got home to actually record... (but then again, I didn't have much time to write even without a guitar to distract me.)Baker and her husband, Steve, owners of Fergus Music in Fergus, Minn., unwittingly started Operation Happy Note in March 2005 when they sent her son a guitar for his birthday. He was serving overseas with 134th Signal Battalion at the time.
“He had a buddy who saw it and wanted one, and then another buddy,” Baker said. “It was decided [we would] hold a fundraiser so we could send more guitars to his unit, and we just never quit.”
The organization kept right on growing and garnered national attention with mentions in national news programs and periodicals. To date, the organization has sent more than 2,500 instruments to servicemembers, including guitars, mandolins, banjos, violins, horns and harmonicas. Anything that makes music is fair game; Steve Baker even wrote a lesson program that includes a CD for those who don’t know how to play an instrument.

But what an awesome project! Here's their home page.