An Ignoble Experiment: A Glimpse of "Semper Family" in Joplin, Missouri

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Deployment Learning Center
Semper Family in Joplin
Meet Us at Marine Week!
The Dollar Campaign Needs YOU
Get Ready for Vote Purple
From & About Our Marines
Get Your Semper Gumby
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Unit Chat Nights

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Greetings Marine Families!

If this is the first edition of the MarineParents.com Newsletter you have received,
WELCOME! If you are a returning reader we are glad you have joined us.
In This Newsletter
Read about the tremendous show of support we received for last month's Operation
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We have photos, videos and personal accounts written by staff members after they
traveled to Joplin with a trailer full of donated items for the Joplin recruiter's
family.
Also, learn where we'll be at Marine Week and how you can meet up with us and Semper
Gumby!
Get Connected
Below you will learn how you can get involved in our outreach programs that provide
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You will also find information about helping support our wounded warriors and their
families by voting for us in the Pepsi Refresh Project.
As always, thank you for continuing to support Marine Parents and our troops!
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Always Family, Always Faithful

Marine Families Unite to Support Joplin Family

"It is friendship, and something beyond friendship, that binds the Marine Corps
together."
- Donald T. Regan, WWII Veteran

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On May 22, 2011, the tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, destroyed cars,
flattened buildings and in some cases took nearly everything that made a family's
house a home.

A Joplin Marine recruiter and his family of five were blessed to have survived the
disaster when so many of the town's residents had lost loved ones and friends, but
when the storm finally subsided the family was left with nothing but their kitchen
table, washer, dryer and a few family photos.

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to keep reading, view a video and read personal accounts from staff members' experiences
in Joplin.
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Marine Parents is at Marine Week!

Come Look for Us Friday and Saturday!

Marine Week 2011 is finally here, and we hope you can meet us under the arch in
St. Louis!

We attended the opening ceremony Monday morning, and we will be setting up a tent
near the Gateway Arch on Friday and Saturday to pass out bottled water and "The
Marines Have Your Back" koozies and to visit with Marine families.

Semper Gumby is with us in his camo cape, and he is having a blast posing on all
the equipment and hanging out with the Marines.

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to view a video of the opening ceremony.
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Don't Forget Your Dollar...

The Dollar Campaign is in Need of Your Bills!

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The Dollar Campaign has raised $2,588 so far, but with only a month to go before
our July 23rd pack day, we are running behind! Have you sent in your dollar? It's
easy; just send a dollar bill in an envelope to:

MarineParents.com, Inc.

Attn: Dollar Campaign

PO Box 1115

Columbia, MO 65205

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If you can spare more than $1, we'd appreciate that too!

These dollars are what fund our care package shipping in the summer, and it's crucial
we raise the full $12,500 needed to ship 1,200 boxes to our deployed Marines. Please
encourage your friends and co-workers to contribute to the campaign as well. The
troops appreciate your support, and so do we. Thank you!

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Vote Purple Month is Approaching

How You Can Help....

Yellow Caps

As you may have heard, we recently applied to participate in Pepsi's Refresh Project,
a grant program that awards money to good causes based on votes.

We applied on behalf of Purple Heart Family Support in hopes of winning a $25,000
grant that would help fund the dinners we serve and the support we provide to wounded
Marines and their families.

Beginning July 1st, you will be able to vote for Purple Heart Family Support through
the Pepsi Refresh Project website. We'll give you voting details beginning July
1st, but until then you can start helping by collecting the yellow caps on Pepsi
bottles.

There are "power votes" under the yellow caps that allow you to cast up to 100 votes
per day, whereas you typically are limited to one vote per day. You can also find
power votes in boxes of Pepsi cans.

Promotional Materials

We'd love for you to help spread the word to your friends, family and co-workers
so that we can get the most votes possible. Beginning in July, you can visit VotePurple.com
to learn how to vote and how you can help promote Vote Purple.

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order we send out, and the kits will also be available for purchase at a very low
price. The kits will include a Vote Purple wristband, button, flyer and coaster.
Vote Purple T-shirts will also be available for purchase (see above image).

We'll give you more information once July 1st approaches. Stay tuned for an announcement
that our application was accepted!
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Parris Island's 1st Female General

Attenion on Deck: From & About Our Marines

According to FoxNews.com, the Marine Corps recruit training depot at South Carolina's
Parris Island will be led by a female general for the first time in its 96-year
history.

Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds will assume charge of the recruit depot this Friday,
June 24th. She has been a Marine for 24 years and has been a communications officer
and commanded Marines from platoon to battalion levels.

Congratulations to Brig. Gen. Reynolds!

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Get Your Own Semper Gumby!

Available from the Marine Parents EGA Store

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This bendable doll is 6" tall and ready for you to pose him around your home, office
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We hope this week's edition of our email newsletter has been useful for you and
your family. If there are topics you would like us to address, or if you have other
suggestions for the newsletter, please contact us.

The banner used at the top of this newsletter is a June 2011 USMC photo by Sgt.
Elyssa Quesada of Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/1 working together to fit
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MarineParents.com, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity. MarineParents.com, Inc. was
founded in January, 2003 in response to parents' needs to find information and to
have a Place to Connect & Share(TM) with one another during deployments. Our free
online services and connections have expanded to support and educate Marine moms
& dads, spouses, families and friends. We've helped over 130,000 Marine and recruit
families during bootcamp, training, active duty and deployments. We've shipped thousands
of care packages overseas to our Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, sent thousands
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Warriors and their families on both the East and West coasts. You've found a Place
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God Bless and Semper Fidelis,

Tracy Della Vecchia

Founder and Executive Director
MarineParents.com, Inc.

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