What began in Manhattan Beach, CA, on Saturday morning, January 17, 2009, with a single shopping bag loaded with socks grew into a MOUNTAIN of socks ...and tee shirts, underwear, PJ bottoms, sweatpants, hoodies, blankets, & beautiful letters and cards to our wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Facility (LRMC) in Germany. Our collection event for the Soldiers' Angels Germany/LRMC Project
www.soldiersangelsgermany.com) included eight additional drop off locations from Venice, CA, to San Pedro, CA, and continued throughout the following week.
Our final sorting/packing took place this past Saturday with these results:
Nearly 2,000 items topping 850 lbs....over 5,000 prepaid phone minutes...and approximately 200 wonderful cards, letters and drawings from our local schools and communities. Our "ask" even reached a wonderful woman in Illinois who donated 75 beautiful handmade pillows loaded with "healing hugs" for our wounded soldiers. The artist, Rita Whaley, was born in Germany in 1940 and as a child of war knows only too well the importance of compassion and how far reaching a stranger's concern can be.
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