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    Founders of Full Circle program on how you can help

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The right here on Mother's Day can be very difficult especially if you -- -- deployed soldier but one organization called full circle holes.

Is letting very big helping hand.

The organization's founders -- and their feet and Lisa Miller here now with the slide to explain how it all works welcome happy Mother's Day and I know that sooner you both have daughters.

Let's talk a little about how this program works -- it's hard enough for a guy like me to go to -- and her Mother's Day.

In a city like this I can imagine how difficult that is if you're deployed in a place like Afghanistan not a lot of forced shops and -- you wanted to set a couple poppies -- Now a lot of shopping opportunities.

-- -- giving -- guys and women who were serving over there.

A chance to touch -- -- it's an easy nothing to do I suppose if you're talking about 11 failure to families but you guys have expanded isn't how many people involved enough.

This Mother's Day we sent out 2000 boxes.

And a total of 6000 over fighters and expectations of increasing.

Absolutely.

Tell us how it works -- how how people get involved.

Well.

What we do is we take -- requests from those -- are deployed in hand we.

Then.

Set up boxes for -- Mother's Day are Christmas and we send it to the woman home that supporting them.

And to us apart at the box of course is that in the box is a handwritten note from the soldier to his mom or his -- spouse.

And the minute the minute that -- comes out of the box these women tennis.

Now.

I imagine that you got to you got one of the -- we do have a -- you and you bring up on the table here and I take a look at that probably -- -- hold it up like this will be a nice tight shot but.

It's a standard a FedEx box but.

-- what's inside is what counts.

So it's just filled with camping things so she remembers to take care for south.

-- she spends all her time sending things overseas.

Income for gets out.

She's important you you must have heard some great stories.

Of moms who have received one of these packages.

Problem -- overseas and what it means to them.

We get phone calls -- -- had to to announce this morning saying.

How much it means to them that that -- that one woman thought that the post office had returned something that she had sent to her solitaire and was astounded when she saw her name on it.

And just how how much it -- mean because -- women.

Really hold -- family together they work so hard and they just sort of don't don't take characters in south but also think that people don't remember and and.

You know it's so tough by I have an older so my oldest son is a stationed overseas in the navy and and he tells me how he often -- with his wife and his and his little toddler son.

But over the over the weeks and months the toddler son has begun to lose interest because -- -- on a TV screen it's not daddy.

In person but this kind of thing.

Yes and it really makes -- for.

And in the the -- have to be strong for that there's soldiers are there Marines and down.

And this just -- you know they're numbered.

How can people get involved and got a website we do -- it's come full circle home dot or.

And -- These have.

Rack -- events.

And we also need some donations to make this all happened all right and like us on FaceBook OK we'll look.

Thanks very much that the European Lisa Miller thank you so much -- at you all the great work you're doing really appreciate it.

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