America Supports You: Groups’ Gathering at Pentagon Shows America’s Support

The groups represented at the Pentagon today are just 38 of the nearly 400 that support America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad. [snip]

“It’s wonderful to have these organizations here today, to have people get exposure and show the goodness coming out,” said Kelly Meyer, project coordinator for Operation Iraqi Children. “A lot of it isn’t shown on the news. This is one way, one day, that we get that chance to show the goodness.” [snip]

“They need to know that America’s behind them, ... Having been there myself, you don’t realize that until you see the Motomails coming and you see the care packages coming from the support groups.”

The knowledge that someone is helping take care of things on the home front provides deployed servicemembers with peace of mind, said Torres, who served in Al Asad Air Base in Iraq in 2006.

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