{"id":3341,"date":"2013-09-07T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/?page_id=3341"},"modified":"2025-05-24T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:41:44","slug":"h4h","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/h4h\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinlein For Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5979\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/donate-to-the-heinlein-society\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5979\" class=\"wp-image-5979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/donate-graphic-h4h.jpg\" alt=\"Donate to Heinlein Society Heinlein For Heroes\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/donate-graphic-h4h.jpg 500w, https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/donate-graphic-h4h-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please donate to The Heinlein Society Heinlein For Heroes cause.<br \/>Choose Heinlein For Heroes and 100% of your donation goes to the H4H program!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3481\" src=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/H4H-logo-web1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heinlein For Heroes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/H4H-logo-web1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/H4H-logo-web1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/H4H-logo-web1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/H4H-logo-web1.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Founded in November 2013, Heinlein For Heroes &#8211; H4H &#8211; is a&nbsp; program for placing science fiction books, especially Heinlein books, into the hands of active military personnel\u2014particularly those deployed\u2014their families, and into the hands of veterans in veterans\u2019 hospitals.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Results:<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">2025: For the 2025 fiscal year (8 months so far) 4,831 books were shipped<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">Total books shipped to date 4\/30\/25:&nbsp;56,777<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Organizations already exist who identify military commands and hospitals with a declared desire for various kinds of reading material. Science fiction is one category always in high demand.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What H4H does:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Acquire copies of Heinlein novels and other science fiction novels<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate the sending of boxes of books to appropriate locations. They are sent only to places that have asked for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>WE NEED BOOKS!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you have new or almost-new copies of Heinlein books you would like to donate, we can take care of the rest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The need for Heinlein paperbacks to send to our troops now for the holidays is urgent!<\/strong> Send your good condition Heinlein paperbacks to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heinlein For Heroes<br \/>\n2906 Alvarado Dr.<br \/>\nBellingham, WA 98229<\/p>\n<p>If you have some other SF titles in the mix, that is okay; we can send those, too, though our focus is on our namesake. We will also take cash, of course.<\/p>\n<p>To contact John Seltzer and other H4H coordinators email:<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:h4h@heinleinsociety.org?Subject=H4H%20Donations\">h4h@heinleinsociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To send money: mail a check to<br \/>\nThe Heinlein Society<br \/>\n3553 Atlantic Avenue, #341<br \/>\nLong Beach, CA 90807-5606<\/p>\n<p>with a note that it is for books, or you can send money directly from your bank account or credit card using the PayPal link on our website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">John Seltzer<br \/>\nHeinlein For Heroes Coordinator<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3358\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/H4HGinny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3358\" class=\"wp-image-3358 size-full\" title=\"H4HGinny\" src=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/H4HGinny.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Heinlein, World War II Naval Officer\" width=\"300\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/H4HGinny.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/H4HGinny-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Heinlein, World War II Naval Officer<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">Thank yous for books received from Heinlein For Heroes:<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in November 2013, Heinlein For Heroes &#8211; H4H &#8211; is a&nbsp; program for placing science fiction books, especially Heinlein books, into the hands of active military personnel\u2014particularly those deployed\u2014their families, and into the hands of veterans in veterans\u2019 hospitals. Results: 2025: For the 2025 fiscal year (8 months so far) 4,831 books were shipped&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/h4h\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":5537,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/page-with-left-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3341","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18659,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3341\/revisions\/18659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}