**First off ... We want to welcome Jen West to our Tag Team! She will be one of our photographers for local events, and we are happy to have her. Jen is a professional photographer, an Army veteran ... and Gold Star Mother. She and her son, Duane Longstreth, joined the Army together after 9/11.
Please enjoy her work ... We do! All of the photos on this entry are courtesy of time and effort. Thank you Jen, and welcome aboard!
Packout Photos by "Jennifer L. West, 2007"
Thank you to everyone who answered the call for our troops! This was the biggest request, and I won't kid you, I was afraid we wouldn't reach our goal ... but we DID!
7,000 shirts to our troops for this year ... Dannnnnnnng!
We took lots of pictures, but you need to bear with us, as we still have to ship several hundred boxes tomorrow. We're still pretty exhausted from all the hard work, but we'll finish up, and get all the photos gathered and loaded for you.
There are so many people to thank, but one agency comes to mind right away ...
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much to Bruce at Lincoln Moving and Storage, in Lakewood. Talk about angels shining down on us. Just a few days prior to the PackOut, we found out that our box contact for the past 2 years was no longer available. You can only imagine that excitement! Here we were with thousands of shirts waiting to go to their new owners in the desert, and we had nothing to put them in to get them there. Sigh.
We made a few calls that got us nowhere, and were feeling more than worried. Someone told us to go talk to the folks at Lincoln Moving and Storage, so I crossed my fingers and headed on over. Meeting Bruce was a stroke of luck we couldn't have asked for. He immediately jumped on it, and stepped up! The day before the PackOut we picked up all the boxes we needed. So a huge salute and thanks to our new friends.
We'll be back with more. And we'll share all that happened ... And, we will reveal which units were adopted this year!
Stay tuned! Also, if you have any photos from the event, please get them to us asap. Especially if you have pictured of that phenomenal extrication done in tandem with the amzing Pileup in Puyallup team from the Puyallup Fire Department & the Godzilla crew of Fort Lewis. So far, this is the area for which I can not locate photos. Looks like eveyone was so involved in watching that no one thought to get pictures. Please prove me wrong!
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