We’re so sorry to email you on a holiday, but ensuring our heroes in uniform don’t feel forgotten is just too important.

Because the truth is, for hundreds of thousands of deployed service members, today is not a relaxing holiday; it’s yet another day of waking up at the crack of dawn in a lonely barracks, eating flavorless MREs, reporting for duty and missing their families.

It’s our duty to make sure they at least know that their sacrifices are noticed and appreciated by the American people they’re working so hard to protect.

So please, before Labor Day ends at midnight, will you be one of the 20,000 grateful Americans we need to thank our heroes in uniform for their brave service and countless sacrifices?

Thank you, today and always, for being someone our service members can count on.

—The USO