ARLINGTON, Va. — President Joe Biden and first girl Jill Biden helped pack presents for youngsters and inspired vacation cheer because the White Home marked the seventy fifth anniversary of Toys for Tots at an occasion hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
The occasion at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Corridor in northern Virginia is a part of Jill Biden’s Becoming a member of Forces initiative, which presents help and sources to households of navy members and veterans, in addition to their caregivers and survivors. Serving to the primary couple type via presents had been spouses of Pentagon leaders and native youngsters of servicemembers.
“Army children such as you give our nation a lot,” Jill Biden stated, after a younger little one learn a passage from the Dr. Seuss basic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
She added: “You help your dad and mom via strikes and deployments and also you typically assist maintain the members of the family who got here house with possibly diseases or accidents. And also you assist out neighbors after they want it, similar to you’re going to do immediately.”
Via the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, Marines and volunteers have despatched out 627 million toys to greater than 281 million youngsters since 1947, based on the White Home. Joe Biden famous that final 12 months, the initiative collected 22 million toys for 8 million youngsters, “giving Santa a run for his cash.”
“However not like Santa, you do not put on huge pink fits, you do not journey the world in only one evening. As an alternative, you put on costume blues and military greens,” the president continued. “You stand watch world wide each single evening.”
He then had a message for servicemembers and their households: “You are not simply the guts and soul of our nation, you are the very backbone of our nation. And we owe you.”
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