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Operation Veronica

Wading River woman’s simple idea becomes 20-year mission of support for troops overseas

by Dec 2, 2025
Every Friday, local volunteers pack care boxes for deployed troops. This holiday season, they’re asking neighbors to help by sponsoring a box. Here’s how.

For the past 10 years, locals send weekly care packages to troops overseas

by Dec 28, 2015
What began in 2005 as an afternoon of sewing neck scarves for troops in Afghanistan has snowballed into weekly shipments of hundreds of care packages that are delivered to more than 1,500 men and women currently serving overseas.