June 19, 2009
Gary Volunteers at Operation Gratitude
On June 10th Gary joined the Operation Gratitude volunteers at the National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to assemble care packages and send greetings of love and respect to U.S. service members deployed overseas.
Operation Gratitude is the California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages of snacks, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan and on Naval ships at sea. Its mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member’s face and to express the appreciation and support of the American people. Since its inception in March 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 450,000 packages to American military deployed overseas.
Below are a few photographs of Gary with volunteers and service members taken during his visit (click on photos to enlarge).
To see all the photographs of Gary’s visit and to learn more about the efforts of Operation Gratitude, please visit their website: click here,
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