Trees For Troops Program~
Schedule for 2011
Article in the news about the T4T loading! (click!)
This year, the National Christmas Tree Association, The Christmas Spirit Foundation, FedEx, and other sponsors, with our help, are going to arrange the donation of over 17,000 real, fresh, Christmas trees to our military and their families at over 50 bases! This year we will cross the cumulative contributions of over 100,000 Christmas trees! Many of you have placed notes with your contributions, and have had meaningful responses from grateful families!
Jack has arranged for Channel 5 to cover the loading, like he has done in the past, and Larry Chambers, Publisher of The Declaration, a Landmark Communication, Inc. newspaper, has always been supportive of our effort to say "Thank You" to our military personnel and their families in this campaign!
Many of you have served our nation in the military, or someone in your family, so you know how important this celebration of Christmas is, sometimes with their soldiers and sailors at home, and especially, when they are deployed!
Thank you for what you are doing to bring Christmas cheer to those who serve our nation and all of us! God bless them!
God bless you!
~ John Rosser
MEDIA COVERAGE!
The Trees for Troops program has received a lot of press! Please follow these links to see how this program has impacted our servicefolks.
Independence, VA Declaration newspaper article:
click here for pdf file.
News coverage on the web, WBYC, Bristol, VA:
click here for WBYC web page.
News coverage on the web for the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC:
click here for WITN web page.
click here for WNCT web page.
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Globe newspaper article:
click here for the Globe webpage.
Here's hoping these are some of many opportunities that you will have for international fame for your good deed in making the Christmas Season more meaningful for our military families! You helped to deliver 627 fresh Christmas trees, locally grown, to our two designated bases out of a total goal of 17,000 this year. You got to experience how heavy they were!
Photo courtesy of U.S. Marine Corps, Camp LeJeune
Photo Credit: Sgt. Bryan A. Peterson