Salute to American Heroes 7 is coming! Thursday night, October 17, 2019. Same venue – The Royal Manor in Garfield, NJ. Last year, everyone had such a great time and this year will be no exception (we hope even better!) So please mark your calendar and get ready to buy tickets, be a sponsor, donate […]
On December 5, 2018, our volunteers, our Trustee Lara Spina, members of American Legion Post 21 of Cresskill, NJ, and folks from United Eventures helped pack up wrapped Christmas presents for our Troops. Lara and her friends had bought gifts for all our Adoptee units still in Theater and the wrapped gifts were picked up […]
Early December 2018 — It started at Dee’s Nursery in Oceanside, NY. Over 500 live Xmas trees were brought down from the Dee’s tree farm in Maine to their Nursery, where children from local schools, Veterans, Police officers, local Troop organizations and employees from DHL Express gathered to give them a great send-off to DHL’s […]
On November 14, 2018, AaSP packed over 350 boxes for our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen. The Unilever Veterans Business Resource Group, Menasha Corporation, some MPs from the Teaneck, NJ, Armory, and Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon supporters made boxes and worked the assembly line. Volunteers staged goodies on tables, put letters and flyers into the boxes, worked […]
We Got Your Six is the theme for most of what we do, but it was especially appropriate for our 6th annual Salute to American Heroes gala. Salute is our primary fund raiser for our Operation Wounded Care – 100% of the net proceeds go to these programs. 100%. The Salute gala was a night […]
On Wednesday, 29 August, 2018, we packed over 260 boxes for the Troops. We dedicated the pack as a Memorial Pack to ‘The Hustler 6’ who were killed in Afghanistan on 21 December, 2015. Christine Lemm, the wife of one of those killed, TSgt and NYPD Detective Joseph G Lemm, attended the pack. She brought […]
On Friday, June 8, 2018, we packed 250 cartons of Girl Scout cookies from the Nassau County (NY) Girl Scouts and DHL Express. Every year, DHL sends tens of thousands of boxes of cookies to our Troops, many to AaSP units. They also provide AaSP with skids of cookies we send to ALL our Adoptee […]
On March 15, AaSP volunteers packed 300 boxes for our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coasties. Thanks to our Benefactors and Supporters, it was probably the best carton to date. Every box contained a “plethora” of goodies – including Peeps, Mike and Ike‘s and Hot Tamales; Unilever’s Suave, AXE and Dove products; fruit cups, 4Imprint coffee […]
Salute to American Heroes has been described by attendees as one of the best nights out they ever had. It is a gala filled with military pageantry, symbolism and patriots who love our Troops and wounded Veterans. Salute is a night of dinner, dancing, auctions and entertainment. Over 100 military attend, including brave men […]
AaSP schedules a Holiday pack by the middle of December each year. This year we started early – November 16 – to make sure all our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen received their goodies in time! Festive and holiday-like snacks and personal care items are packed in each box. Additionally, for last five or more […]
For over a decade, DHL has been shipping live Xmas trees to our brave men and women downrange in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and other areas. AaSP provides contacts in those areas for DHL and, in turn, our units get live trees! It’s a great win-win-win for all concerned. Thanks to DHL for their generosity […]
Every year, Captain John “Woody” Woodall leads a team of charities and volunteers to bring Christmas to our wounded and recovering Veterans at Walter Reed Nat’l Mil. Medical Center at Bethesda, MD. For years, Woody and his Firefighters Assisting Armed Forces Families (FFAAFF), the FDNY (Fire Dept. of NYC), the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders, Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon […]
