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Through
the sale of Memorial Bracelets™, over $60,000
has been donated to the following charities:
The Yellow Ribbon Fund was created in early 2005 to assist our injured service members and their families while they recuperate at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. Their mission began when the father of an injured Marine introduced two of their volunteers to staff at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and they told them what needs were not met by other donors.
Because
members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and
must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher
House Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on
the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. These homes enable
family members to be close to a loved one during the hospitalization for
an unexpected illness, disease, or injury. There is at least one Fisher
House at every major military medical center to assist families
in need and to ensure that they are provided with the comforts of home
in a supportive environment.
Department
of Defense statistics indicate over 4,000 Marines have been injured in
Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Injured Marine Semper
Fi Fund was formed to provide supplemental assistance to US Marines,
sailors, and their families as they face their road to recovery.
The
Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, www.cfsrf.org,
helps support surviving U.S. Military children and spouses who have either
lost a loved one as a result of the Afghanistan or Iraq wars or have a
disabled parent or spouse who was injured during a deployment to either
war by providing them with College Grants.
The
Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund, www.freedomalliance.org,
honors the bravery and dedication of Americans in our armed forces who
have sacrificed life or limb by providing educational scholarships to
their dependent children. The Freedom Alliance has awarded over $250,000
in scholarship aid to hundreds of deserving students who have had a parent
sacrifice for this nation.
The
Twin Towers Orphan Fund, www.ttof.org,
is a charitable trust fund designed to benefit those children who were
orphaned (lost one or both parents) in the national disasters of Sept.
11, 2001. These are the children of those who lost their lives in the
explosions and collapses of the several buildings in the World Trade Center,
at the Pentagon and among the passengers and crews aboard the four hijacked
airliners.
The
purpose of the fund is to provide for long-term education, health care,
and
other primary assistance to children currently under the age of 21 (or
enrolled in accredited institutions of higher learning) orphaned in the
terrorist-caused disasters
of September 11, 2001.
The
Families of POW's and MIA's sole purpose is to obtain the release
of all prisoners, the fullest possible accounting for the missing and
repatriation of all recoverable remains of those who died serving our
nation during the Vietnam War.
1,874 Americans are still missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam
War, though over 450 were at sea/over water losses: Vietnam - 1,434 (VN
- 508;
SVN - 926); Laos 377; Cambodia - 55; Peoples Republic of China
territorial waters
- 8. The families seek the return of all US prisoners, the fullest possible
accounting
for those still missing and repatriation of all recoverable remains.
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