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"With Veterans Day coming up, Dixie decided it's the perfect time to learn all about Operation Interdependence.
If you're a bit confused as to what OI is all about, boomer Karon Carley, unpaid CEO and national president and area manager of this civilian-to-military delivery program tells us how it touches the lives of our troops all over the world.
"We send boxes every-single month to the troops," she explained. "Every one of our boxes has fifty quart bags, and inside every quart bag there must be a note from home."
The bags contain a variety of factory-sealed items, for example, beef jerky, eye drops, candy, gum, anything that will fit inside a quart bag.
Carley's passion for helping troops started at a very young age and continues today.
"When I was about eighteen and newly out of high school, I had a friend who was stationed in Germany," she recalled. "And he wrote to me and he said, "It is so dreary over here." He said, "I'm not getting any notes from home besides you.""
Started right after 9/11, this all-volunteer organization depends on donations, grants, and community generosity to keep it going, and has no intention of stopping...."
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