Salute to American Heroes 7 was terrific! Special thanks to all our Sponsors, Benefactors, Donors and Supporters! View the SHORT (1.5 min) VIDEO This year’s Esteemed Honoree is Liberty Subaru of Emerson, NJ. Thanks to the DeSilva Family, Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon has been the beneficiary of Subaru of America’s “Share the Love” event every […]
We had a special pack on Tuesday, July 16. We didn’t have enough people to finish the pack on Tuesday so we asked folks to come on Wednesday and we did finish! (Above) – Every carton we packed contained a copy of Scott LoBaido’s “Liberty” prints (along with a special message he enscribed). We’re pretty […]
A special NJ Pack was held on 25 June. Freshmen and Senior students of teacher Brendan O’Neill at Bergenfield (NJ) High School collected over three skids of healthy snacks, candy, gum, beef jerky, slim jims, soup and scores of boxes of personal care items for our NJ ARNG currently deployed overseas. Brendan’s students do this […]
—>> ABC-NY Video on this pack released Monday, July 8 <<—click on this sentence. On Friday, June 7, a team from Deloitte’s NY/NJ offices came to the Unilever Warehouse to pack Girl Scout Cookies from the Nassau County (NY) Girl Scouts and DHL Express out of its Kennedy Airport Gateway. For the last several years, […]
On May 21, volunteers gathered at the Unilever warehouse by 9am and prepared over 200 cartons to be sent to our Adoptee units overseas. We called it a “fun pack” because it consisted of really neat plastic tumblers from our Benefactors at Just Born Confections in Bethlehem, PA. Also included were: Just Born Easter Peeps […]
The Girl Scouts of Nassau County, NY, and DHL Express at Kennedy Airport in NYC, both combine their resources to get donated boxes of Girl Scout cookies to our Troops overseas. The event started at Girl Scout Headquarters In Garden City, NY, there was quite a crowd by 10am on 17 April. Soon, Bagpipers began […]
March 28/29, Fair Lawn, NJ —- Scott LoBaido, renowned American Patriot Artist, has painted the American Flag on rooftops and American Legion and VFW Posts in all 50 states. His passion for America is well documented. Now he has created a traveling art exhibit – “22-13” – in each of the 13 original colonies (states) […]
Our main “all-adoptee” packs are a lot of work. The first part includes preparation, collecting all our adoptee names from all our sources (including follow-ups with our units to make sure they’re still in country). We have to request donations from our fabulous Benefactors like Inserra Shop-Rite Supermarkets of North Jersey, Just Born candy from […]
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 […]
