Marine Parents Care Package Project
In This Issue
Total Packages Sent
Ways to Help
Get Fit, Support Troops
2012 Packing Dates
Package for Your Loved One
We Don't Go Door-to-Door
Cookie Pack Day a Huge Success
Help Us Fill Warehouse with Pack Day Items
Wish the Marine Corps Happy Birthday
The Folks Behind the Scenes
Thank you from a Marine
National Day of Prayer

 Total Packages Sent Since 2005:

 

33,184
  
2012 CPP Pack Dates Poster
2012 Care Package Project Pack Day posters are still available! Call (573) 449-2003 or click here to order!












   

 

 

Want to contribute to the Care Package Project?

 

There are endless ways you can show your support:

  • Hand writing "Thank You" cards and letters
  • Donating needed care package items
  • Holding an item drive
  • Holding a fundraiser
  • Donating shipping funds
  • Volunteering before pack day to prepare
  • Volunteering on pack day

Click here to learn more about how you can help... 

 

Get Fit and Support Our Troops with Team Marine Parents!

 

Four more great events 

are coming up this year: 

 

Marine Corps Historic Half:

Sunday, May 20, 2012 

Fredericksburg, Virginia

 

Semper 5k:

Sunday, May 20, 2012 

Fredericksburg, Virginia

 

Gender Defender:
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Marine Corps Base Quantico

 

Marine Corps Marathon 10k:

Sunday, October 28, 2012 

Arlington, Virginia

Click here to learn more about TMP and register for more events!  

 


2012 Saturday

Packing Dates    

  • July 28
  • October 20

 A Care Package for Your Loved One
Pack Day 8-25-10 
If you have a friend or loved one deployed to Afghanistan, we want to send them a care package!
 
Use the link below to request a care package from the program. Please sign your Marine up at least 10 days before the packing day. You only need to enter your Marine's name once per deployment.
 

Additional Information

If you have questions or need additional information, call our Outreach Programs Coordinator, Babs Blackmon, at (573) 449-2003 ext. 305, or email her at [email protected]


MarineParents.com doesn't go door-to-door

If someone comes to your door asking for donations for MarineParents.com, Inc., it is a scam. MarineParent.com never solicits donations by going door-to-door -- ever. We only ask for donations via our websites or through fliers included in shipping products from the EGA Store.

 

Recently we heard from a Marine parent who had a person come to her door looking for donations supposedly to help MarineParents.com. The parent made a donation, but after checking with our office, the scammed parent had to cancel the donation and change her account numbers.

  

Don't fall victim to door-to-door solicitations purporting to be from MarineParents.com. Protect yourself, and be secure in the knowledge that when you donate your time, money or goods to MarineParents.com, it's going to help our Marines overseas.

 

Leon Deraps Memorial Walk on May 5

 

The Leon Deraps Memorial Scholarship Walk is in honor of Marine LCpl. Leon B. Deraps, a Jamestown, Missouri, native who was killed May 6, 2006, in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Race-day registration is $30. 

   

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Jamestown, Missouri

 

Click here to read more ...
May 3, 2012
Greetings!

We're so glad you joined us for this issue of The Care Package Project News!

Our last pack day, Saturday, April 21, 2012, was a huge success. With the help of 88 volunteers, we shipped 752 Girl Scout Cookie care packages to our Marines serving in Afghanistan war zones. We've received our first card of thanks from the 1/8 Marines. Scroll below to view the card.

Also in this issue, we're asking for your help to replenish our warehouse with care package items for our next pack day, July 28, especially with summer items. And you'll learn a little about the folks behind the scenes who helped make our April 21 pack day go off smoothly.

Today is the National Day of Prayer, so we encourage you to say a prayer for our Marines serving in Afghanistan and around the world.

Thank you for joining us for this issue and for your continued support of our brave men and women.

 

Semper Fi, Marine Families!
 
 
 
 

 

Babs Blackmon, Program Coordinator
The Care Package Project
MarineParents.com, Inc.
Cookie pack day a huge success
Volunteers help us send 752 care packages to Marines

The thermometer lied.

 

The day dawned cool and crisp, a bright spring

morning - but at

MarineParents.com, Inc., it was as warm as Grandma's kitchen. The warmth had nothing to do with the temperature from without and everything to do with the feelings from within. The Girl Scout Cookie� pack day was open for business, and the warmth, the love, the sense of camaraderie was unmistakable. 

 

Marine Parents photo
Volunteers pack Girl Scout Cookies and other items into care packages on April 21, 2012, at MarineParents.com in Columbia, Missouri. In two hours, 752 care packages were filled and shipped to Marines in Afghanistan.

Eighty-eight volunteers strong, on April 21, 2012, we filled 752 care packages for Marines serving in Afghanistan combat zones. Working for a common purpose, old friendships were renewed, and new friendships were made.

We need your help to fill 'er up
MarineParents.com warehouse needs items for next pack day

Here at MarineParents.com, we're finally getting back to normal after our April 21 pack day that sent 752 care packages - Girl Scout Cookies� included - to Marines serving in Afghanistan's combat zones. But now the warehouse here in Columbia, Missouri, is nearly bare.

 

And that's where you come in.

 

Our next pack day is July 28, less than three months away, and we need to restock our warehouse. According to the Maps of World website, summertime temperatures in Afghanistan can reach higher than 110 degrees Fahrenheit in Jalalabad. We're always in need of all kinds of items, but for this pack day we're looking especially for things our Marines can use in summer: sun block, sunglasses, socks and foot care items, baby wipes, drink mixes and other items for use in hot, dry climate.

 

You can donate needed items, money for shipping costs, send cards and letters or organize a Care Package Project™ drive in your community. Click here to learn how you can help.

 

Additionally, if you have a Marine family member or friend who could use a care package, sign them up and we'll make sure they get one from our July pack day.  

Click here to learn more about signing up your Marine.

Send birthday wishes to the Corps
We need Marine Corps birthday cards for October pack day

They were conceived in revolution and born into conflict. And on November, 10, 2012, the United States Marine Corps turns 237 years old.

 

A little less than seven months after the battles at Lexington and Concord kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, a Continental Congress committee met on November 10, 1775, at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They drafted a resolution calling for the formation of two Marine battalions to fight on land and at sea for the revolution - and the Marine Corps was born.

 

Some 228 years later, MarineParents.com, Inc., was born.

 

We're asking you to start sending birthday cards to the Marines now so we can ship them out during our October 20 pack day. Handmade cards, especially from children, are always appreciated, but if you'd like to buy cards to personalize and send, we have those for sale in our EGA Shop. Click here or on the card to view details and how to order.

 

Either way, we hope you'll take time to wish the Marines, and the Corps, happy birthday.

 

The tradition runs from the first Commandant, Maj. Samuel Nicholas, to today's Commandant, Gen. James F. Amos, the 35th commander of the Marine Corps.

 

Semper Fi!

 

Unsung heroes playing our song
These folks behind the scenes made our pack day a breeze
urbanspoon.com photo
Lonnie Rays of Harrisburg, Missouri, provided the food for our pack day feast.

MarineParents.com extends many thanks to people behind the scenes who made our April, 21, 2012 pack day such a success:

  • The Girl Scouts of Connecticut. For the eighth consecutive year, the Girl Scouts donated cookies to send to our Marines overseas. This year, they sent us 800 cases -- that's 9,600 boxes -- of Thin Mints and Samoas.
  • Joe Guffey of the United States Postal Service. Joe pre-stamps all the customs forms we need to be able to send our care packages oversees, and he lines up the mail trucks that we fill during pack day.
  • Lonnie Rays Smoked Meats and Barbecue. Our pack day lunch of brisket, pulled pork, coleslaw and potato salad was catered by the Harrisburg, Missouri, institution. Our 88 volunteers, along with assorted staff members, devoured nearly all the meat and fixings of the excellent lunch.
  • City of Columbia Recycling. They made a special trip on pack day to pick up all the Girl Scout Cookie� case boxes and other cardboard accumulated in the warehouse.

MarineParents.com also thanks all the volunteers who donated money, items or their time to help us fulfill our mission of supporting Marines and their families. We couldn't do what we do without all of you. Thank you!

 
Thank you from a Marine
From our April 21 Pack Day, Thanks from 1/8 Marines!

Say a prayer for Marines today
National Day of Prayer a time to reflect, support our troops

Today, the first Thursday of May, is the 61st National Day of Prayer.

 

With tens of thousands of Marines serving in Afghanistan, MarineParents.com encourages people of all faiths to say a prayer today for the safe return of our service members. You can post your prayer to our Facebook page, but please remember: "We DO NOT address or allow political issues. We DO allow freedom of spiritual proclamations, support and prayer. We DO believe in God, family, country and the United States Marine Corps."

 

According to the National Day of Prayer website: "In 1952, a joint resolution by Congress, signed by President Harry S Truman, declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, the law was amended and signed by President Ronald Reagan, permanently setting the day as the first Thursday of every May. Each year, the president signs a proclamation, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day. Last year, all 50 state governors plus the governors of several U.S. territories signed similar proclamations."

 

Semper Fi, and God Bless.


 

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