Operation Shoebox

Seventeen members of the Veterans and Servicemembers Association and their friends and family joined over 100 other Operation Shoebox volunteers as they packed boxes of food and personal hygiene items for troops overseas. The event was held at the Walter Kavanaugh Veterans of Foreign Wars building in February. It was the 13th anniversary of the first Operation Shoebox program; since its first packing event in 2005, tens of thousands of volunteers have helped assemble and ship 136,000 care packages overseas. Shown here is Eun Lee, Marine Corps veteran and the MCC Veterans Association president.