We love volunteering at the USO Wounded Warrior Center!
Our next Airline Ambassador Wounded Warrior mission is right around the corner! (YEAH!) Thank you so very much for your kind donations and encouragement as I continue to support our troops overseas. The poster boards that I made and had so much assistance in getting signed look fantastic! (the signatures take away from the fact that I don’t have an artistic bone in my body! haha)
The luggage is filled with toiletries that were collected from hotel rooms .. and so very much needed at Ramstein Air Field for the transportation teams who take such good care of our Wounded Warriors. A special thank you to Charlene at Running Wild Spirit for the soap and chapstick she hand made to share with our valiant heroes.
It really is an honor to be allowed to volunteer at the USO Wounded Warrior center! This trip we will also be chaperoning Wounded Warriors on a day trip on a Rhine River Cruise (reminds me, I need to pack something warm to wear!). We are planning on volunteering at the Chaplain’s Closet .. which is where your kind donations of t-shirts, sweats, athletic shoes, and flip flops are distributed to the troops when they come from the battlefield. If you are not aware, most of the time a wounded service member will arrive at the hospital with only the clothing on their backs. The Chaplain’s Closet offers items to the Wounded free of charge, and is run by donations. That is why your donations are so greatly appreciated.
We are able to give our valiant warriors hope, and remind them they are not alone in their recovery .. and for that, I am eternally grateful. It is my strongest desire that NONE of our valiant heroes ever feel alone on the battlefield or when they return home.
Thank you so very much for your support .. and I promise to blog and share photos as I have time. The trip begins the moment I finish training in Atlanta for my job .. and volcanic ash clears so I can get on a flight .. our Wounded Warrior mission is expected to be 21-26April.
On a side note .. I was asked to go to Haiti to assist with relief efforts 27April – 1May … please pray my schedule at work enables me to do so (my work schedule comes out tomorrow). If any of my work buddies have a buddy pass you can spare, my friend Ruthie would really like to use it .. as she is the one who created the Peace Packs and paid for the shipping of them (the afternoon I spent at Fed Ex with her the other day) .. and I am going to help her distribute them. Thanks so much, you have no idea how much this would mean .. and we will get to help Eric Klein at Can-Do.Org at the same time!
Thank you to everyone for reading my blog .. I know it is hard to keep up with where I am in the world .. and I am learning the more information I share online, the less any of you worry about me! It’s just really important to me to support our troops .. and make a difference … one person, one life at a time!
Thanks again, and stay tuned for updates!
:o) Always, Robin
Robin Schmidt
PO Box 122037
Covington, KY 41012-2037
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