What Is Happening Now
Written by Destiny   
Hello friends and supporters of our troops!!What a year it's been! I've been going to festivals with the Marine Corps League Detachment #414 all summer asking people to sign Christmas cards and thank you cards for our troops. I've also been able to help them with their fund raising efforts. It's always time well spent when I'm with my friends at the #414. A big THANK YOU goes out to them for helping me with my project, Cards From Destiny. "Semper Fi" is something that Marines say. It means "always faithful." It's not just words. It’s something you feel in your heart and soul. I know that when they say semper fi to me, they will always watch over me and be there when I need them! WOW! What a great feeling that is!On November 14th, 2009, we attended the Marine Birthday Ball in Saline, Michigan. Little did I know that they were going to honor me with a "Distinguished Citizen's Award". My parents, Mike and Shada Eadie, each received the Citizen’s Award as well! We were presented with certificates; awesome jackets with our names embroidered on them, and personalized challenge coins!  They left us speechless! Glenn Timpe of the #414 took us by surprise when he called each of us in front of the crowd. He also presented me with a wooden plaque that has the Marine emblem on it and a K-Bar with "Operation Iraqi Freedom" inscribed on the blade. To have those men and women that I look up to and admire honor me like that just blew me away! THEY are the heroes, not me. I am proud to stand beside them as an Honorary Marine of the #414 and will continue doing all that I can to support our troops and the Veteran's here at home. THANK YOU and SEMPER FI to my friends at the #414!!!!  My family and I continue going to the VVA #310 every month with donations for care packages. Sometimes I am able to collect a lot of items. Sometimes I only have a small bag or two of beanie babies or soaps and lotion. Regardless, it's a wonderful thing to be a part of. Everyone pitches in and we usually get between 30-45 big boxes packed tight full of magazines, candy, snacks, sporting good equipment, and whatever else we get donated. You can google the VVA310 and read about The Chapter of the Year and their amazing monthly award winning newspaper they call the DISPATCH. They do awesome things in the community as well as with Veterans. Their Christmas care package gets together yielded 107 boxes sent to our troops. The Collis Family held an 80th birthday party for their dad, Robert Collis, a Korean War Army Veteran. Instead of gifts for himself, he asked that donations be made to the VVA #310 and Christmas cards be signed so that our troops will know how much we care about them. A big thank you goes out to the entire Collis family for supporting my efforts and the troops!I had the great opportunity to help out OPERATION SANTA (Peoria, IL) again this year. They wanted to put a personal note/card into each home made Christmas stocking they send out to the troops. Each stocking is filled with goodies and snacks and of course a card. Last year they sent over 30,000 stockings to our heroes! I was able to send a couple thousand signed cards to help them out this year. It's another great charity led by some very wonderful people, Patti Smith being at the top of the list! The last of the Christmas cards are being sent out next weekend in care packages. I think the total card count for this year will be over 4 thousand. I hope each one of those cards make the holder feel loved and appreciated. If it does, then I accomplished my goal!While thinking of special people, I have to say another BIG THANK YOU to Sean O'Halloran and Brightwebz for updating and keeping this website going. Sean has been busy all summer with Ranger Training and now that he has a spare minute, here he is, helping me again!! You're awesome Sean! Thank you again!Destiny 
Last Updated on Friday, 11 December 2009 12:15