NY Firefighters Travel for NC Wounded Warriors
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NY Firefighters Travel for NC Wounded Warriors
By Arthur Mondale
Reporter
Published: December 5, 2008
It’s something many of us will be doing, to support our troops this holiday season: sending care packages.
But what’s better than sending a simple package?
How about hand- delivering tens of thousands of dollars worth of supplies in person.
It seems Santa and his helpers got a new mode of transportation in the form of a flat bed U-Haul truck…the elves, firefighters…but instead of coming from the North Pole, they came from the big apple.
“You can’t put a monetary price on this, said Daniel O’Keefe, a member of NY Nassau County Fire. “People stop working for days to get this done…raised $22,000 in about 4 hours in one night, we raised over $100,000 this year alone.“
Men and women representing all 71 fire stations in New York’s Nassau County brought a truck load of care packages to members of Camp Lejeine’s Wounded Warriors Battalion East.
From the basics like tee’s, and physical-training gear, to the pricier items like lap tops and I-pods, no marine left empty handed.
After all these first responders say these marine’s sacrifices are why they’re here.
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