SLIDELL -- Mary "Dookie" Jackley of Slidell is scared.
At times she has no idea where her soldier son in Iraq, lays his head.

Sometimes, deep down, she questions if he's even alive.
"It's scary," Jackley said. "I tell you what -- you pray a lot. I'm lucky though because my son's a captain."
Occasionally, her son's rank allows him to call her, she said. But many of his fellow soldier's have no one to talk to.

They lay huddled together at night, she said. And have nothing but each other.

Jackley, her daughter and many more are urging people to adopt a soldier through www.soldiersangels.com.

Soldier's Angels is a volunteer run, non-profit organization started in June of 2003. The mission is to provide aid and comfort to any of the Armed Forces and their families.

To date, the organization has sent more than 2,000 packages to deployed soldiers, helped the wounded at three major military hospitals and aided many military families.

But it's not enough, said Jackley.

"There's no place to buy anything there," she said. "Things that we take for granted like snacks or popcorn, they don't have."

Anybody can adopt a soldier and send them packages. Sponsors' information is never released to an outside source and no minimum donation is required, according to the website.

"If people realized how little our soldier's have, they would be horrified," said Jackley.

Her son said he and his soldier's shirts rot on their backs.

"There are a lot of things going on that you don't know about," her son told her in an e-mail.

Jackley urges families to send sponsored packages with little description of inside contents. Valuable items have been stolen out of them, she said.

And although sponsors don't have to send a lot, anything is appreciated, she said.

"You just have to have a lot of faith and pray. That's all you can do," she said.

Well that, and sponsor a soldier, she said, adding that soldier could be your child.