Mail STARS to our Heroes:
Currently serving military, veterans, and First Responders.
You supply us with names and addresses of our armed forces, veterans and first responders, and we mail them Stars.
100 Stars are sent to all currently serving in the military with APO and FPO or USA Military Base addresses for FREE.
We are now requesting $4 per bag to cover the cost of supplies and postage for all Stars being mailed.
Send a special greeting card created from your words to let them know why they are receiving these Stars. Include your name and address and we will send you 2 Stars and a copy of the card sent.
BECOME A STAR MAKER:
Want to participate by creating Stars in your neighborhood so you will be able to share the love of our country with those serving and those that served? Have a Star Party!!
This is a project for all ages and all abilities. Instructions are only available through e-mail. The instructions will include your zip code on the Note for contact purposes. A Star Maker STARter Kit is also available, consisting of 5 business cards, a packet of 10 Stars, 2 cantons and the pouches that the Stars go into with the emailed note, all for a donation of $13. Only one kit per Star Maker. It is just a way to get you STARted.
ORGANIZATIONS and SERVICE GROUPS:
We create Special Message Notes with Thank You's from your organization's name on them. We request all organizations that wish Stars to share either become Star Makers or contact Stars for our Troops for additional information about availability and cost of Stars. We can e-mail the instructions and you can order one kit only. Many organizations sending packages overseas are adding Stars to the packages. It becomes a relaxing event during meetings and can also be used as a Thank You for donations. Go to the index on the left and click on Star Maker Organization.
Stars For Our Troops Inc.
A 501c3 Charitable Organization
All donations are tax-deductible per IRS rules.
Welcomes you to find out more about how You and We
can show support to
those that have Served and
those that Are Serving -
our Military, our Veterans
and our First Responders.
"White Star"
Listen to what a Veteran felt when he entered into a discussion
about Stars for our Troops.
Thank you Bill Notro.
He wrote this song BEFORE
he received his Star.
This page was last updated: October 18, 2017
Stars for our Troops is only funded by YOUR donations.
We are a 501(c)(3) Charity Organization.
There are no corporate sponsors. Volunteers cut the cantons from the useable flags, wash the cantons, cut and pouch the Stars, but supplies and postage are purchased.
100% of donations are used to continue this great project.
Thank you for your encouragement and donation.
Your USA made old, retired flags with EMBROIDERED Stars are needed today to continue this project. We recommend 3' x 5' flags.
Please do not send printed flags or large Flags. Flags must be made in the USA.
Please write on front of package the number of embroidered flags enclosed.
Susanw/Stars for our Troops Inc.
c/o G F W
715 Columbia Turnpike
East Greenbush, NY 12061
Receive 2 Stars for your flag(s) donation.
Casket Flags or any large flag should be donated to your local national cemetery. They will acknowledge receipt of the flag and it will be used to honor our fallen heroes. They can also be donated to your local funeral home.
THANK YOU,
THANK YOU!!
The response to the 2013 Memorial Day article by Reuters has been beyond expectation. Please read and share.
Susan
Thank You - count as of 5/24/13 was 2753 hits.
In 2014, Gettysburg Flag Works about 875 shipments were received and donated 5766 flags for the Stars project.
Of those flags, 3795 were useable, 66% of the flags that were received.
It is easier to get to work on the Stars when people are aware of the size of the Stars they are sending, and it takes less time separating the ones that are not usable.
We take any casket flags to the Saratoga National Cemetery to be used when the roads are lined with flying flags. It is a beautiful sight.
The cantons are used to create the pouched Stars and distributed in Star Maker Kits.
In 2013 Gettysburg Flag Works received 3807 flags for the program. Of those flags 2305 were of a usable size which works out to 61% of the flags. With the usable flags we were then able to make 115,250 pouched stars to thank that many soldiers or veterans!
THANK YOU ALL THAT ARE SERVING
AND THOSE THAT SERVED!!
THANK YOU!!
Susan
The other day, 32 packages of flags were sent to Stars for our Troops.
There were a total of 258 flags.
108 of them are usable for this project.
150 were not usable. They were printed, Star bigger than 2 inch, not USA made, flags too large and many casket flags.
58% of the items received must be bagged up and disposed of before I can work on the flags that are usable.
It took me 4 hours just to log each package, count and separate flags into usable and unusable.
We are all volunteers.
We appreciate your donation of flags. We need your help to help us manage our time.
There is a big expense for you to send flags that cannot be used. The extra $30 spent on postage could have been used for postage or supplies. Postage to mail Stars and supplies for the pouches and mailing envelopes keep going up. Please help.
Communication is often after 9 PM EST or very early in the morning.
To ensure a return response, please make sure your e-mail address, full name and city and state is included in all correspondence.
Phone calls may be returned when time is available, with full information as to the reason for the call, your name and organizations name.
We are a group of volunteers that are continuing what was started by a group of ladies in Florida called the Star Project about 2005. See "Star Project Begins"
Old tattered and faded US Flags are retired from service and we pass the legacy of their embroidered Stars to those that defended them.
We are cutting the fields of blue, known as the canton, from these old flags, then scissor off the embroidered stars.
Into a plastic bag go a star and an explanation:
"I am part of our American flag that has flown over the U.S.A.
I can no longer fly. The sun and winds have caused me
to become tattered and torn.
Please carry me as a reminder that
You are not forgotten."
The embroidered stars need to be smaller than the size of a business or credit card.
Collectors of flags in the Albany, NY area include: Gettysburg Flag Works, East Greenbush; Saratoga Flag, Gansevoort; your local Kiwanis Club. Remnants of flags are being used to create lap quilts for veterans in nursing homes and hospice, and as flag covers for motorcycles and those that carry the US flag on a collapsible pole for flag lines.
Stars for our Troops Inc.
PO Box 301
Troy, NY 12182-0301
For communication only, no packages.
Susan E Wells
518-235-1558
518-235-1558Stars4ourTroops@aol.com
2015 - 97,034 Stars were distributed from the Albany NY area. We mailed 240 bags to the Military and 445 Veterans. Organizations also shared Stars with the Military, veterans and first responders.
Blank e-Messages are being received. If you do not receive a response in 24 hours, please re-send
a message to
with all pertinent information.
Shared with permission:
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting one of these Stars to a dear family friend that served in the Vietnam War. Sergeant Fish.
The Star was actually given to me by a friend/co-worker who had told me how he and his wife are involved with helping our Veteran's and about the Stars. I told him about our friend and he gave me the Star for him.
Sergeant Fish wants Mike to know how much this means to him..... he said to me tearfully "I knew about these groups saving The Stars.. but I never thought I would receive one."
Sergeant Fish also stated the this Star was more meaningful to him then The Purple Heart and other medals he had been given by The United States......
This is why we do the STARS!!
Any PayPal entry that does not match a name and e-address from any form on this website will be considered a donation.
"I am part of our American flag that has flown over the USA. I can no longer fly. The sun and winds caused me to become tattered and torn.
Please carry me as a
reminder that
You are not forgotten.”
The mailing of Stars to anyone is at the discretion of Stars for our Troops Inc.
Webmaster needed - send message with examples of work to Stars4ourTroops@aol.com
Thank you to all of the Star Makers and organizations that
participated, encouraged and shared Stars in 2016.
There are currently over 210 Stars Makers that are creating Stars throughout the United States of America and one Star Maker in Belgium. Over 90,000 Stars were shared in 2016 by these Stars Makers.
The local chapter of Stars for our Troops Inc. which is in the Albany NY area shared over 122,000 Stars.
Stars have made a difference to over 212,000 people in 2016. Double that number for those that created and shared them.
This is over 4300 flags were used last year. Thank You for the flags!
Stars For Our Troops Inc.
A 501c3 Charitable Organization
All donations are tax-deductible per IRS rules.
