thedrifter
07-06-08, 06:14 AM
Extra grateful for the simplest things
07/05/2008 03:49 PM
By: Bryn Hough
DENVER, N.C. -- This holiday weekend, one local group is saluting the nation’s Marines by helping to rebuild a damaged platoon's supplies hundreds of miles away in Afghanistan.
"Our troops are fighting a war for our country for us right now and they need our full support,” said Giovanni Gambino, who is collecting supplies for troops along with the Sons of Italy lodge. They are working with a local Wal-Mart to get the contributions to the Marines of Unit 3/6 Lima Company which suffered supply loses due to an electrical fire.
The group is seeking donations of medical supplies, basic toiletry items and other everyday necessities “because these Marines lost everything they have,” explained Gambino.
Greeters at the Denver, N.C. Wal-Mart are passing out the list of items the Marines need with the hopes that shoppers will drop off items like band-aids, deodorant, razors and chapstick.
"We all have Marines that are either family members or friends overseas and the opportunity to help them out as well as to get our business out in the community was really great," said Wal-Mart representative Alexis McKinney.
As a former Marine, Gambino knows how essential the items they are collecting can be. "The Marine Corps motto is Semper Fi, we're always faithful and there for a brother Marine has fallen down, you stop right there to pick him up and help get going again."
Gambino says he’ll collect supplies at the Denver Wal-Mart on Monday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. He and other Marines will then airlift the donated supplies from the Air Force base in Charleston, S.C. directly to the Marines on Monday.
Ellie
07/05/2008 03:49 PM
By: Bryn Hough
DENVER, N.C. -- This holiday weekend, one local group is saluting the nation’s Marines by helping to rebuild a damaged platoon's supplies hundreds of miles away in Afghanistan.
"Our troops are fighting a war for our country for us right now and they need our full support,” said Giovanni Gambino, who is collecting supplies for troops along with the Sons of Italy lodge. They are working with a local Wal-Mart to get the contributions to the Marines of Unit 3/6 Lima Company which suffered supply loses due to an electrical fire.
The group is seeking donations of medical supplies, basic toiletry items and other everyday necessities “because these Marines lost everything they have,” explained Gambino.
Greeters at the Denver, N.C. Wal-Mart are passing out the list of items the Marines need with the hopes that shoppers will drop off items like band-aids, deodorant, razors and chapstick.
"We all have Marines that are either family members or friends overseas and the opportunity to help them out as well as to get our business out in the community was really great," said Wal-Mart representative Alexis McKinney.
As a former Marine, Gambino knows how essential the items they are collecting can be. "The Marine Corps motto is Semper Fi, we're always faithful and there for a brother Marine has fallen down, you stop right there to pick him up and help get going again."
Gambino says he’ll collect supplies at the Denver Wal-Mart on Monday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. He and other Marines will then airlift the donated supplies from the Air Force base in Charleston, S.C. directly to the Marines on Monday.
Ellie