We are looking for businesses to fill up our booth spaces for our event. $65 for non-TNT-Members, $50 for TNT-Members. $10 of the booth space will be for the shipping of care packages to our platoons we will be adopting for Christmas and will be a tax-deductible donation. For more information and an application, please email us at trilakesnetworkingteam@gmail.com
If you are a business that would like to sponsor our event, we would love the help. Your donation will go towards advertising this event and will help get our care packages to the soldiers. For more information on becoming a sponsor, please email us at trilakesnetworkingteam@gmail.com
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Adopt-a-Platoon
How AdoptaPlatoon Started
Ida Hagg founded AdoptaPlatoon while her son, Chauncey, was an Army Soldier deployed to the Balkans. After sending him letters and packages from her Texas home, he asked her to “adopt” nine of his fellow battle buddies who "never received mail from home". These soldiers were young...18 and 19-year-olds who needed to know that they were not forgotten by a grateful Nation.
Later, her son’s commanding officer wrote to tell her how much the mail had lifted not only the spirits of those 9 young soldiers, but also the morale of the entire platoon and he asked she would “adopt” his entire platoon.
From that humble start in 1998, AAP has grown so that now we can say, "Over 200,000 U.S. Service Members have been served". In 2009, $2,180,299.00 was spent on Troops Services to meet our mission. This has only been possible because of the kindness, generosity, gratitude and love of the American people!
Ida Hagg founded AdoptaPlatoon while her son, Chauncey, was an Army Soldier deployed to the Balkans. After sending him letters and packages from her Texas home, he asked her to “adopt” nine of his fellow battle buddies who "never received mail from home". These soldiers were young...18 and 19-year-olds who needed to know that they were not forgotten by a grateful Nation.
Later, her son’s commanding officer wrote to tell her how much the mail had lifted not only the spirits of those 9 young soldiers, but also the morale of the entire platoon and he asked she would “adopt” his entire platoon.
From that humble start in 1998, AAP has grown so that now we can say, "Over 200,000 U.S. Service Members have been served". In 2009, $2,180,299.00 was spent on Troops Services to meet our mission. This has only been possible because of the kindness, generosity, gratitude and love of the American people!
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