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Knit & Crochet This Summer to Keep Deployed Troops Warm This Winter!
Do you love to knit or crochet? Have you been looking for a project to use up your piles of leftover yarn? Do you want to help thank and support deployed U.S. Service Members? If so, you’ve come to the … Continue reading
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Tagged care packages, crochet, crochet club, handmade hats, handmade scarves, knit, knitting club, Military support, Operation GRatitude, yarn
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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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Great Video of 98-Year-Old Knitter Joan!
Casey Stegall of Fox News Channel did a heartwarming story on our fabulous knitter-volunteer: Joan Mazzarelli, who has knit almost 500 scarves and hats for us this year. If you missed the story on TV, catch it here: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4456330/knitting-a-patriotic-duty/
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Tagged Afghanistan, Army, beanies, care packages, charity, community service, crafts, crochet, donate, donations, gifts, hats, holidays, Iraq, Joan Mazzarelli, knit, Marines, military, Military support, morale, Operation GRatitude, scarves, volunteer, yarn
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