Packing Boxes for Troops
Mick Borges tosses a puzzle book into a box that will be sent to troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
by Brooke Andrus/Bigfork Eagle
Muffin Vallely has organized the mailing of care packages to United States troops for the last eight years, and as she and a crowd of volunteers prepared to make the first shipment of 2011, Vallely showed no signs of slowing down.
“You read too often of somebody having lost someone in war, and we want them to know we are always thinking about them and praying for them,” Vallely said.
Vallely and her husband Paul, a retired major general with the U.S. Army, started the box-packing effort in 2003 when their son, Army Pfc. Scott P. Vallely, was in boot camp.
