| DHL Xmas Trees Event 2010
Dee's Nursery and JFK Int'l Airport
7 December 2010
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For the eighth year in a row, DHL Express has teamed up with Dee's Nursery and Adelis Int'l Security and the local VFW to ship live Christmas trees, lights and ornaments -- along with Menorahs -- to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's a fantastic program and one which has benefitted Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon and our units serving in harm's way in those countries.
For videos from various local NYC media, please CLICK HERE for all the links.
This year, we are proud that we are sending live trees to GEN David H. Petraeus, Commanding General NATO International Security Assistance Force. Thank you General and thank you DHL! More info later this week after the event... (thanks Cain M., Cathy O' and team!)
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DHL Trees for Troops Event
December 7, 2009
Pix and Video Below:
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| A-Btry, 2/218th FA, OR ARNG, decorate their MRAP with lights and Christmas trees from DHL and Dees' Nursery. |
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DHL Express Xmas Trees Shipment 2009
JFK Int'l Airport Gateway and Dees' Nursery, Oceanside, NY
December 7 and 8, 2009
JFK Int'l Airport -- Since 2004, DHL has been shipping Xmas Trees to our troops in the Middle East. What started with a customer at Dees' Nursery in Oceanside, NY, grew with Jim Adelis at Adelis Int'l Security (whose son was deployed to Iraq at the time) and the willingness, generosity, compassion and patriotism from DHL Express and its employees.
This is the fourth year that Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon has worked with DHL to put Xmas trees into their units in Iraq and Afghanistan. These trees bring holiday spirit and a taste of home to our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen in the war zone in the Middle East. They are a welcome sight indeed!
Thanks to the team at DHL, Dees' Nursery, Adelis Int'l Security, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Port Authority, State, County and local police and fire department units and all the civic groups who participate in this valient effort! See the pictures below to get a sense of the event and also some of our soldiers who received the trees in IRQ and AFG. Special thanks for our Special Angel Cathy O'!
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| AaSP Adoptee 1LT Brett Robertson and 2-113th INF FRG Director Lorrayne Mercier-Robertson at the DHL event at Dees' Nursery on Dec 7. LT Robertson was at Camp Bucca last year when trees arrived for the unit from DHL. |
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