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Quilt donated to us to present an injured Marine. Thank you, Martha!
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Operation GOT YOU COVERED was a success!
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2009 Dayton VA Christmas Party
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Another pic of our “traveling” banner
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A pic of our “traveling” banner
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Heroes holding our Christmas camo stockings
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The Dayton USO presenting us with a check. THANK YOU, USO!
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Thank You pic from our Heroes in the Navy
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Blue Star Memorial Dedication Ceremony
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3,616 pairs of socks donated! THANK YOU, Fairborn!
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THANK YOU, Springboro JROTC!
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One of our Heroes in Iraq
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Thank you, Innomark employees!
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’09 Dayton VA Picnic
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Shipment of weekly care packages
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Volunteers holding up our camo pillowcases
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Hundreds of goodie bags for our Heroes
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Our care packages always get a thumbs up!
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Posing with Governor Strickland and Rep. Hobson
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Paula and Penny with Antonio Fasano, WWII fighter pilot
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It’s May and we are already making Christmas stockings for our holiday care packages!!!
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A great big THANK YOU to our volunteers at the Beavercreek Senior Citizens Center
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We had 700 years of fabric donated to us, so we’re busy sewing for our Heroes!!!
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Memorial Day Parade in Miamisburg
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Gracie and Leigh sending boxes with donations from local church and fire department
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Van stuffed with care packages
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Over 1,000 Christmas stockings we shipped stuffed with goodies
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One of our Super Heroes!
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Thanking the Superintendent of Mad River Schools for a successful donation drive
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Welcome Home 371st National Guard event
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Donation of pillow cases from the Beavercreek Senior Citizens
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SGM Shepherd awaiting Bev Peyton with the Army National Guard’s Victory Medal
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The “Distinguished Center of Influence” award from the Army National Guard
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Memory Quilt presented to Bev Peyton as the outgoing President of our chapter
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Donations from the office of Dr. Buerschen, D.D.S.
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At the USO telling one of our Blue Star Dads goodbye before his deployment.
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Radio interview with WHIO
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Pinning one of our mothers at a meeting.
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Our first parade!!! Kettering Holiday at Home
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Even the Dayton Dragon’s Mascot came to help us welcome our heroes home at WPAFB
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Presenting a special award to General Metcalf (Retired).
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Our mothers being honored at a SOVA event.
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Margaret K. in her replica of the first designated US Sanitation Commission nursing uniform.
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Trying out to sing the National Anthem at the Dayton Dragon’s game.
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Springfield deployment ceremony
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Carol Apking of Lebanon, Ohio, made this quilt and donated it to us.
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700 pairs of donated flip-flops!!!
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Our Blue Star Mother flag being raised at the Dayton VA Center on Memorial Day, 2008