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SPAMERICAN Tour Serves Up Gratitude Across America
Have you heard about the SPAMERICAN!™ Tour? Our friends at SPAM® Brand have partnered with Operation Gratitude as their awesome food truck travels cross-country thanking SPAM® fans and honoring those who so bravely serve our country! Continue reading
Meet Our 800,000th Care Package Recipient…
CAMP DEHDADI II — Surrounded by cheering and clapping comrades, Spc. Samuel Mancilla, a motor transport operator assigned to the 1072nd Transportation Company, 378th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade received Operation Gratitude’s milestone 800,000th care package on August 15, … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, California, care packages, charity, combat, custom-built motorcycle, deployed, donate, donations, gifts, Heroes, letters, Marine Corps, Marines, Military care packages, military families, Military support, morale, Navy, non-profit organization, OC Choppers, Operation GRatitude, Orange County Choppers, Sailors, service members, Simi Valley, SJO Foundation for Hope, soldiers, Torque Sports and Performance, U.S. military, USAF, USMC, volunteer, war
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Operation Gratitude Celebrates Its 800,000th Care Package Milestone
The crowd was electric and in a celebratory mood on June 16 when more than 500 volunteers descended on the California National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to assemble the 800,000th Operation Gratitude Care Package. The Milestone package, which will … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, care packages, charity, combat, community service, corporate sponsors, crafts, crochet, custom-built motorcycle, deployed, donate, donations, gifts, Heroes, knit, letters, March to a Million, Marine Corps, Marines, Middle East, military, Military care packages, Military support, morale, National Guard, Navy, non-profit organization, Orange County Choppers, Sailors, SJO Foundation for Hope, soldiers, Torque Sports and Performance, troops, U.S. military, USAF, USMC, video, volunteer, volunteers, war, YouTube
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It’s a Craft Party in Support of the Troops!
Here’s a guest blog post from a longtime volunteer, tireless supporter and one of our Scarves for Troops Project coordinators, Lorene Van Ark-Miller: A group of ladies meet at a friend’s home to support our troops. It’s like a party, meeting old … Continue reading
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Tagged care packages, charity, cool-ties, craft party, crafts, crochet, deployed, deployment, donate, handmade cards, hats, knit, letters, military, Military support, non-profit organization, Operation GRatitude, patriotic, scarves, Scarves for Troops Project, sew, volunteer
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Summer 2012: Scarves for Troops Update
***NOTE: Please review our most up-to-date Scarves for Troops info here.*** A new guest-post from our Scarves for Troops Project coordinators: Busy Hands, Happy Heart! We wish you all a wonderful and restful summer! Hot as it may become outside, we urge you to “Think … Continue reading
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Tagged care packages, charity, crafts, crochet, deployed, donate, donations, Eisenberg Village, gifts, hand-made, handmade hats, handmade scarves, knit, letters, Los Angeles Jewish Home, Military support, non-profit organization, Operation GRatitude, scarves, Scarves for Troops Project, U.S. military
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We Can Never Out-Thank the Troops
As our care packages continue to reach their destinations, we receive wonderful letters, email and photos in reply. We post them in the “Mail Call“ and “Photo Gallery” of our website and on our Facebook page, too, but also wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Army, care packages, charity, combat, deployed, donate, donations, Heroes, kids' letters, letters, Marine Corps, Marines, military, Military care packages, Navy, non-profit organization, Operation GRatitude, Sailors, service members, soldiers, troops, U.S. military, USAF, USMC
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Great Ideas…A Few More Ways to Support the Troops!
If you’ve ever visited our Vendors with Great Ideas page on the Operation Gratitude website, you’ve seen the wonderfully creative initiatives our corporate partners have designed to raise funds and collect items critically needed to send care packages to our … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, care packages, charity, combat, computer products, deployed, donate, donations, Facebook, Heroes, Hold On Another Day, Iraq, letters, Liberty Creek Vineyards, Marine Corps, Marines, Military care packages, military families, Military support, music, Navy, Operation GRatitude, Pinterest, Postagram, Sailors, Sincerely, Songs for Soldiers, Sovereign Brand Tees, t-shirts, troops, U.S. military, USAF, USMC, veterans, volunteer
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“My men and I still need every bit of your support.”
A guest post from deployed First Lietuenant John A., who is serving in the United States Marine Corps: As American service members continue ten more years of commitment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, we cannot help but think: … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, care packages, charity, combat, deployed, donate, donations, letters, Marine Corps, Marines, Middle East, Military support, morale, Navy, non-profit organization, Operation GRatitude, service members, soldiers, troops, U.S. military, USAF, USMC, war
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Spring 2012: Scarves for Troops Update!
A guest blog post by Scarves for Troops coordinator, Elaine Campbell: “…When the Treasure becomes a Memory, the Memory becomes a Treasure…” It is with warm memories and a heavy heart that I tell you Joan Mazzarelli has passed away. … Continue reading
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Tagged care packages, charity, community service, cool-ties, crafts, crochet, donate, donations, gifts, handmade, hats, holidays, knit, letters, military, Military care packages, Military support, non-profit organization, Operation GRatitude, scarves, U.S. military, veterans, volunteer
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“The pain went away, and all I felt was joy…”
Please take a few moments to read this heartwarming and inspiring story from Operation Gratitude volunteer Kelly South: Just before Christmas of 2010, I had been looking for a way to volunteer my time. A friend told me about Operation … Continue reading
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Tagged care packages, charity, community service, crafts, crochet, deployed, donate, donations, gifts, handmade, hats, knit, letters, Operation GRatitude, Sailors, scarves, service members, troops, volunteer, war, yarn
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