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 The partners listed below will be in the Military Family Care Village during the Freedom Festival. Be sure to stop by and visit with each to see how you can best support and thank our active duty military men and women.
While the military family partners differ for each Fredom Festival, here is a list of the partners from the June 2005 Freedom Festival. San Antonio can expect local San Antonio orgnaiztions to be on site. Alpha Company 133rd Signal Battalion
www.a133frg.com
We Do Care has set a goal to adopt this unit during their deployment. From the Family Readiness Group Leader – “A little background on us...A Company, 133d Signal Battalion is based in Crestwood, Illinois, but our troops come from all over the state. We have approximately 150 soldiers, with about half based in Crestwood and half based in Carbondale and Sparta in southern Illinois. Their mission is to be a communications unit, supporting voice and computer networks in the battlefield. They were deployed to Iraq until July 2006, for a total of at least 18 months away from home.
Our soldiers are really from all walks of life and have left behind many different families. They reflect the great racial and ethnic diversity of America. They are mothers and fathers, teenagers and grandparents, single and married. Their civilian professions cover a wide range – human resources professional, fork lift operator, police officer, engineer – and we also have many young men and women who are attending college. But they share a common dedication to this country and to each other to do the best job they possibly can and to come home proud!”
The Heart Of A Marine Foundation
The Heart Of A Marine Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Roy and Georgette Frank after they lost their son LCpl Phil Frank in Iraq in 2004. The foundation provides comfort, support, financial assistance, and educational resources to improve the quality of life of military personnel, in all branches of the United States Armed Forces, and their families.
Comfort - The Foundation will offer recruits and deployed military personnel comfort, moral support and friendship
Support - The Foundation will provide Care Packages for deployed military personnel, Comfort Packages for injured military personnel; other special needs will be provided as identified.
Assistance - The Foundation will provide financial assistance for active duty military personnel, and/or their families, where specific unmet needs have been demonstrated. The Foundation will provide financial assistance for military personnel who have been physically or emotionally injured, and/or their families, where specific unmet needs have been demonstrated.
Resources - - The foundation will host a web site enabling military personnel and/or their families access to available resources from other organizations. The foundation will fund and award scholarships in an effort to encourage youth who exemplify the spirit of The Heart Of A Marine ideal, which is honor, patriotism, loyalty, respect, and concern for others.
Georgette was featured May 29th on ABC News show This Week in a segment titled What Is The Real Meaning Of Memorial Day? Click the link to the left to read what Georgette shared, including an essay on the real meaning of Memorial Day.
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