Tweets for the troops: These robots are saluting servicemembers

With our heads in our phones, laptops and TVs, some of us rarely send handwritten letters anymore, let alone to thank servicemen and women around the world. Two companies are partnering for Military Appreciation Month with our technology-centered lifestyle top of mind and a goal to help our troops feel appreciated.

KIND Snacks is teaming up with technology company Bond to create handwritten notes of thanks for servicemembers. Bond is home to almost 50 robots that hold pens and have the ability to write letters in more than 1,000 different handwriting styles. "We know the personal touch really means a lot to people," says Bond founder and CEO, Sonny Caberwal.

During May, the Bond robots will be turning tweets with the special hashtag #thankskindly, into notes that will be hand delivered to veterans and military personnel around the world.

"We think about Bond in many ways as the opposite of Snapchat," Caberwal says. "Whereas Snapchat and services like email let you send messages in seconds to someone and it disappears forever, we let you do the same thing, but it comes to life and it lasts forever."

We followed three #thankskindly tweets from their creation in Atlanta, turned into letters in New York and hand delivered to veterans in Seattle.

Watch the video above to see the journey of these three tweets and what they mean to the Seattle-based veterans who received them.

"It's overwhelming to read these cards from individuals we don't even know, and they're saying some very sincere things about how we did in the military and it's pretty awesome," said Antonio Robinson, U.S. Army, Retired.

For every tweet with the #thankskindly hashtag during the month of May, KIND will donate $1 to Cell Phones For Soldiers, up to $10,000. CPFS provides calling cards to active military who want to keep in touch with their loved ones but can't afford the cost of calling from so far away. The company was created in 2004 by Robbie and Brittany Bergquist, who at just 12 and 13 years old, wanted to help servicemembers keep in touch with their loved ones.

So in the remaining weeks of May, do something great on Twitter, and say thanks to those who serve our country.

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