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DELAWARE VETERANS INC. MISSION STATEMENT
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To devote our efforts to the maintenance and
furtherance of the Constitution of the United
Sates of America, and the support of our
American form of government, in order that our
American way of life shall not be lost.
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To work toward a better community, a stronger
state, a finer nation, and a more understanding
world in order to preserve a just and lasting
peace.
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FLAG RETIREMENT DROP BOX
Looking for a place to retire those torn and
tattered U.S. flags, that are no longer usable?
Bring them to
our Post and drop them into our flag drop box
and we will retire them in a dignified matter
during our annual Flag Retirement Ceremony.
Click Here to read
about our Flag Drop Box |
Delaware Veterans Post #2,
Inc.
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- THANK YOU TO ALL THE RUNNERS AND THOSE THAT WORK BEHIND THE SCENES TO MAKE OUR RACE THE SUCCESS IT IS!!
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The 15th Annual Delaware Veterans Post #1
- 5K Run/Walk
- In Memory of James "Daddy Wags" Wagner and Tom Pitts
- Sunday, November 3, 2013
- On-Site Registration Opens @ 8:00 am
Featuring a fast flat course
Where: Delaware Veterans Post #1
2535 Veterans Dr., Wilmington DE 19810
3/4 of a mile west of Foulk Rd. off Naamans Rd.
Parking at Concord Soccer fields
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Tons of Awards... Long Sleeve T's and we must mention Beer after the run
Awards: Overall Male & Female winners,
Top two finishers in each age groups,
Top ten female and top mal walkers,
Top three Veteran Finishers. Top Veterans Team,
Police/Fireman Challenge. 9-11 Trophy awarded to top team,
Many, Many Many More as well as Door Prizes.
Refreshments/food to all participants.
BEST AFTER PARTY IN THE AREA
Make checks payable/mail entry form to:
Toys For Tots
2535 Veterans Dr.
Wilmington, DE 19810
Pre registration closes October 31, 2013
FOR ON SITE ENTRY FORM
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A Veteran
- whether active duty, retired, national guard
or reserve--
is someone who, at one point in his or her life,
wrote a blank check made payable to "The
United States of America",
for an amount of "up
to and including their life".
That is Honor, and it seems there are way too many people in
this country who no longer understand that
simple fact.
Author unknown
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In Memoriam
- to our deceased members since
this website was created
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PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United
States of America, and to the Republic, for which it
stands; one nation, under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. |
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10th
Annual
 Stockings
for Soldiers
Please Help Send Some Holiday Cheer
to Our Troops
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Stockings For Soldiers-Delaware,
Inc.
(A Delaware Corporation)
TIN: 27-0604668
501 (c)(3)
Non-Profit Organization
Click
Here To Make A Donation
Visit Our Website
www.StockingsForSoldiers.org
For much more information
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Welcome . . . Welcome . . .
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- To the official new website
for the 2013
Stockings For
Soldiers community project.
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- This year marks the
10th
consecutive year of our
community effort to send
personalized Holiday greetings
to our brave young men and women
in uniform serving their Country
half-way around the world.
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- Thanks to the great
generosity of Louis Capano &
Sons, the owners of the Branmar
Plaza shopping center, our
"Stocking Store" we hope, will
be located again at the same
Branmar Plaza location that we
have used for the past seven
years. We hope to announce and
confirm in the next few months
that our "Stocking Store" will
be in the empty office space
that housed the
Patterson-Schwartz Real Estate
office, to the left of Walgreens
at Silverside and Marsh Roads in
Wilmington, Delaware. We would
also like to thank the wonderful
folks at Patterson-Schwartz Real
Estate Company for allowing us
to use their vacant office for
five years.
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- Our official kick-off date
for dropping off donations will
be the week of Monday,
October 14th, 2013.
We’ll be trying something
different this year: We will
ask for
Deliveries Only for
the first week of the project.
Volunteer hours will start
the following week on Oct. 21st
, 2013. Our doors
will open from 6:30 P.M. to 9:00
P.M. from Mondays through
Thursdays in the
evenings only.
Over the next seven weeks, we
will be personalizing each
stocking with the recipient's
name, collecting the needed
Goodies, sorting all the
donations, stuffing the
stockings with goodies, boxing
them and shipping them to troops
in the remotest regions of
Afghanistan.
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- Last year, almost
1000
great volunteers helped
us to mail out 1,325
boxes packed with over 10,000
homemade, personalized
Christmas Stockings that
were filled with over 40,000
pounds of Goodies. We also
made and shipped 2,500
polar fleece blankets and 500
knitted hats for our troops.
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- How you can help:
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- Here are some of the many
ways that you can personally
contribute to the success of
this year's
Stockings For Soldiers Project:
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- Start sewing stockings now .
. . many of our volunteers have
been sewing and stockpiling
stockings since January. The
stocking pattern is available by
clicking on the "Stocking
Pattern" link under the
“Items Needed” menu. Be
sure to use only colorful,
cotton fabric and plain white,
red or green felt for the cuff.
We request that all the
stockings be the same size, so
please be sure to measure the
finished stockings to be 15"
high by 9" wide. For easy sewing
tips, please see our video link
to our great new YouTube
“How-To-Sew a stocking for our
project. We have some special
instructions for our sewing
volunteers. Please read them at
our “Sewing Instructions” lf the
donated stockings are too large,
they do not fit into our two
gallon ziplock bags. Please
help us by being sure to measure
your stockings to be 15” x 9”.
Thank you.
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- Knit wool caps. . . These
are valued by our soldiers as
warm winter helmet liners in the
frigid mountainous regions of
Afghanistan. Knitting
Instructions are available by
clicking on the "Knitting
Instructions" link under
the “Items Needed” menu.
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- Purchase and donate fabric
for stockings and polar fleece
for our small blankets. Even if
you do not sew, your
contribution of fabric and polar
fleece is much appreciated and
will be used by those who do sew
but don't have the funds to buy
additional material. You can
also cut out the stockings with
our pattern.
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- Collect "gently used" music
CD's, paperback books (no
romance novels, please) and
gently used DVD movies. (no VHS
video tapes please).
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- Please make packets of "Snowman
Soup" for our troops.
(Hot cocoa (packet must be
unopened)
in a ziplock bag.) See our link
for the "Recipe" under the
“Items Needed” menu. This
is a great project for young
volunteers to do with their
families.
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- Ask your dentist to
contribute toothbrushes,
toothpaste and floss. You can
expedite this by volunteering to
bring the donated items to the
Stocking Store any time after
October 14th, 2013.
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- Arrange for your school,
church, synagogue, scout troop,
service club and workplace to
sponsor a collection campaign
for items that we put into the
stockings. A flyer with all the
details about the project and a
list of supplies we need donated
is available by clicking on "Project
Flyer" link under the “Items
Needed” menu.
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- Arrange for your school,
church, synagogue, scout troop,
service club and workplace to
sponsor a contest to see who can
collect the MOST crew
socks or disposable razors or
toothbrushes or Ramen Soup,
etc.,.
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- Arrange for your school,
church, synagogue, scout troop,
service club and workplace to
write greeting cards and letters
of support to our troops. Please
limit the cards written to no
more than 100 per person.
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- Finally, join us (and
tell your friends to join us) by
coming to the Stocking Store any
evening during our working
hours. Click on the "Hours"
and "Location"
links under the “About Us”
menu to help us to make the
Holidays brighter for our
deployed troops.
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- We will be OPEN for
Deliveries
Only starting the
week of Oct. 14th
through Oct. 17th.
We will start to work in the
Stocking Store
at Branmar Plaza, the
week of Monday, October 21st:
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Monday through
Thursday, Evenings Only, from
6:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
- Stop by once, stop by twice
or as often as you want . . .
and stay as long as you want.
But be forewarned: the joy and
satisfaction you'll receive from
being a
Stockings for Soldiers
"Elf" is addictive . . .
We know and hope that you'll
keep coming back to help us
again!
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- Please HOLD on
delivery of any donations until
we open the week of October
14th.
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- THANK YOU, Everyone. See You
All in October.
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- Judy Travis
- Project Founder &
Coordinator,
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- Stockings for Soldiers –
Delaware, Inc.
- 1911 Foulk Road
- Wilmington, DE 19810
- Tel # 302-475-2526
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- 501.c.3 Tax ID # 27-0604668
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Warrior Weekend
Providing Weekends of Rest for America's Wounded
Veterans
Co-Founded By Del Vet's Post Member Steve Udovich
Warrior
Weekend provides weekends of rest and relaxation for
Soldiers and Marines who have been wounded in combat in
both Iraq and Afghanistan.
They are undergoing recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center in Washington, DC.. The missions are funded by
both individuals and organizations
and
are provided at no cost to the soldiers and marines who
participate. More
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For our
soldiers
"Lord,
hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the selfless
acts they perform
for us in our time of need.
I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and
Savior.
Amen
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soldier, not the poet, who has given us the
freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not
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who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the
flag, and whose coffin is draped by the
flag, who allows the protester to burn the
flag."
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Elsmere Veterans Hospital
Volunteer Services is looking for individuals to
ADOPT-A-VETERAN. The VA nursing home care unit
has several individuals that could use a special
visitor. After many decades of marriage, spouses
have passed away and immediate family live a
distance away. These individuals could use
someone interested in being matched with them
for our ADOPT-A-VETERAN Project.
VA Volunteer Services is also looking for
volunteers interested in driving the parking lot
shuttle van. Hours needed: 8:30AM to 3:00PM. Contact:
Karen Cavanaugh at the Volunteer Services
office.
Monday thru
Friday 7:00AM - 2:30 PM.
Call 302-994-2511 ext. 4061.
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