Maurice T. Suttles VFW Post 3413 and Auxiliary packed 82 sack lunches. Sam’s Club donated chips, bags of cookies, oranges and juice; while Laura Cook donated the bread and meat for the sandwiches. The meals were prepared for soldiers from Army National Guard Unit 4-133rd Field Artillery who were making a return trip to Fort Bliss in El Paso. The soldiers were heading to be deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Lois Stuart, Loretta Eiben, Brown and Cook prepare sack lunches for soldiers making a return trip to Fort Bliss in El Paso.
San Marcos VFW Post 3413 hosted a letter writing campaign for our local Soldiers that will deploy for 9 months. These letters by Girl Scouts Troops in the surrounding area, showed our community support and were added to the sack lunches on the day of their send off.