Posted on 06/14/2006 10:04:45 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
During the Father's Day weekend of June 17-18, 2006 hundreds of volunteers will join together at the California Army National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to continue the Patriotic Drive and assemble Operation Gratitude’s 150,000th Care Package for shipment to a U.S. Service Member deployed overseas. Operation Gratitude Director of Operations, Charlie Othold, expects to hit this milestone moment approximately 1:00p.m. on Saturday, June 17th.
In addition to regular Wish List items provided by more than 50 Corporate Sponsors and Friends, and by tens of thousands of individual donors across the country, the 150,000th Care Package will feature a DVD Player and a special collection of DVDs. The 150,000th Care Package will also include a 2-Night Stay at the El Cortez Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
New and returning volunteers will gather at the National Guard Armory between 10am-5 pm on June 17th & 18th to assemble an additional 12-14,000 Patriotic Care Packages. By the end of the weekend, Operation Gratitude will have assembled over 45,000 packages during this 2006 Patriotic Drive, which started over the Armed Forces and Memorial Day Weekends in May.
Tens of thousands of deployed troops have received the surprise Care Packages since Operation Gratitude sent its first shipment in March, 2003, and they express their appreciation through a constant flow of letters, emails and pictures, as seen in the Mail Call and Photo Gallery sections of the www.operationgratitude.com website.
Thanks lady -- and congrats to you too. You guys (& gals) ROCK!! It's fun, isn't it?
Thank You for all your hard work.
Thank you for doing this, Dita.
I've had the pleasure of sending a few boxes and it definitely is an uplifting experience.
God Bless and Protect our Awecome Military.
Land of the Free Because of the Brave.
Operation Gratitude is a great organization.
And, as they say, many hands make light work.
A package, even a card, means a lot to a soldier far from home.
Operation Gratitude is the subject of a Pentagon News Channel report!
http://pentagonchannel.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=93215
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