Medford Community Packs Buses With Hundreds Of Care Packages For U.S. Troops Overseas

By Eva Andersen, CBS Philadelphia

April 8, 2024

MEDFORD, N.J. (CBS) -- Operation Yellow Ribbon's annual fundraising event, Operation: One Nation 2024, took place Sunday, April 7 at A Rose in December, a flower shop in Medford, New Jersey.. Now in its fifth year, the initiative aims to collect donations to provide comfort and essential items to military personnel serving abroad.

The day of the fundraiser, the flower shop's parking lot was filled with school buses, fire trucks, and trailers full of items like Girl Scout Cookies, feminine hygiene products, and toothbrushes to be packed up, carefully loaded and shipped overseas.

"Based on the mindset of a first responder and helping, we help people on a smaller scale here in Medford, but when you think about what they are doing overseas, it's a larger scale and to me it makes a lot of sense to be involved," said Lieutenant James Daverso with the Medford Township Police Department.

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