Operation Thank You--Update!
January 26, 2012
Remember our service project coordinated with Operation: Thank You during band camp last August? We sent 76 "care packages" filled with donated goodies and letters written by band members to three military units in Iraq and Afghanistan! We also were honored to have two local military veterans, Adam Clark and Tim Campbell, talk with students during our packing event.
We DID hear back from the troops that our boxes arrived at their destinations! The Band even received a "mission flag" as a thank you, and it is now hanging in the Band Room! Below is the email from SSgt Boling who sent the flag:
The boxes I did receive from Mason High School. I got a total of 26 boxes and I gifted them out to all the soldiers I work with. In thanks I had a flag flown on a combat mission and sent back to the person's name on the return receipt. I hope that the flag made it thru the mail. I sent it about a month or so ago. There would be a certificate with a picture that has my name, a CW5 French and a Captain Stockton on it. I will say that it totally made everyone's day. All the packages were awesome, and everyone had a blast opening them, there was a xmas atmosphere around here for a few days :P I even posted some of the letters up around the office, and they are a hit with everyone.
If you can find out if the flag made it back, then I'd really appreciate it. If they want a speaker, I would be more than happy to visit the school and thank all the kids in person when I return.
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SSgt Heather Boling
and from Operation Thank You:
I am amazed by the report of all you donated to be sent to the troops. I hope y'all realize just how much support such as yours means to our troops. Many get the idea that the American people do not know or what is worse, care about them and the sacrifices they are making daily. Care packages from groups such as yours really blows that idea out of the water and really shows them we DO know and that we DO care about them and appreciate their sacrifices. When these boxes arrive YOU will have brightened the day of so many and help to give their life purpose.
I appreciate you choosing Operation: Thank You to be the organization to work with and the support you have given to our troops. We do appreciate seeing the young people of today sharing and giving of themselves.
Operation: Thank You, Inc.
Our Mason Marching Band can be proud of not only achieving amazing performance results, but also showing our appreciation to some Military men and women deployed overseas!
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