SIOUX CITY, IA) - The Siouxland Chapter of the American Red Cross needs your help to make sure service men and women receive their holiday cards this Christmas.

2,000 Christmas cards have arrived at Sioux City's Red Cross. Every card needs to be sorted for veterans, families, wounded soldiers and active-duty soldiers.

Red Cross staff hope volunteers will spare an hour or so on Tuesday, December 22nd to come to their office off War Eagle Drive in Sioux City and sort cards.

"Pre 9/11 you could send a card to any military member anywhere anonymously and since then obviously the rules have changed and you're not allowed to do that. So Walter Reed made sure that we get that opportunity to send those cards out to the soldiers, and to those service men and women you want to say Happy Holidays to, so it's a great way to do that," said Tammie Pech with the American Red Cross. 

All cards will stay local. Some will go to area clinics and the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City.