Operation Christmas Stocking Spreads Cheer to Deployed Troops

A little piece of Christmas has started to arrive in Iraq and Afghanistan for troops away from home during the holidays.

“Even in hard times, if we can find a way to help support our troops, we do,” Paul Holton, founder and president of Operation Give, said. “Something as simple as a Christmas stocking is easy for people to handle. They stuff these stockings, knowing their little act of kindness is going to improve troop morale.”

Operation Give, a Salt Lake City-based troop-support group, has had a “steady stream” of Christmas stockings coming in from all over the nation since they announced the event in the media and on their Web site earlier this year, Holton said.

FedEx has provided free shipping of stockings to the group’s warehouse. This is the fourth year the group has sponsored the stocking drive.

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