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In This Issue

Deployment Learning Center
SgtMaj Barrett Attends PHFS Dinner
Marine Corps Museum: The Virtual Experience
Need Deployment Information?
From & About Our Marines
Team Marine Parents Participant Spotlight
Wear Red on Fridays!

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Support for You:
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Honor Gold Star Mothers & Families

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and light a luminary on the evening of Gold Star Mother's Day, which takes place
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to sign the pledge of support for our country's Gold Star mothers and families.
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Learning Center:

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Security. Please respect YOUR Marine's privacy!
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Tip: While in our EGA store, check in your Marine's unit store for more homecoming
shirts!
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Unit Chat Nights

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Monday:3/4

Tuesday: 13th MEU
Wednesday: 1/5, 2/8

Friday: 3/6

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Local Support Groups in Your Area

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If you are interested in starting a local support group in your area, please visit
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Support Our Marines!

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August 24, 2011
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Greetings Marine Families!

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In This Newsletter
Read about our recent Purple Heart Family Support dinner for wounded warriors and
their families, where the 17th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt Maj Barrett
was in attendence!
Also, learn how you can find deployment information using our Unit Information Page
Database.

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As always, thank you for continuing to support Marine Parents and our troops!
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PHFS Dinner Hosts Special Guest

Sgt Maj Barrett Visits Wounded Warriors

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Sergeant Major Barrett poses with PHFS West Coast volunteers at their August 18th
dinner for Wounded Warriors and their families.

Written by PHFS volunteer Buck Ramsey

The 17th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sergeant Major Micheal Barrett, attended
our Wounded Warrior dinner Thursday night [August 18th]. The Sergeant Major was
formerly the Sergeant Major of the 1st Marine Division stationed at Camp Pendleton.

Because of this former posting and his long, distinguished service in the Marine
Corps, many of those present at our dinner last night had previously met or been
stationed with the Sergeant Major. Every Marine who could make it to the Liberty
Center at Balboa Hosptital (approximately 250!) came to dinner to greet the Sergeant
Major. Or, more accurately, he left the Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington
DC to visit them.

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to keep reading and view more photos...
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Experience the Marine Corps...

Marine Corps Museum Virtual Experience

The National Museum of the Marine Corps recently released an online "Virtual Experience"
that allows web users to explore the sights and sounds of the museum right from
their personal computer.

Visitors can take a virtual walk through each gallery in the museum through the
use of high-definition 360-degree panoramic photos.

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to learn more and visit the site.
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Need Deployment Information?

Use Our Unit Information Page(TM) Database

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you know you can access specific information on your Marine's unit by searching
our UIP Database?

You'll find an abundance of useful information such as unit history, the website
for that unit, links to Marine Parents groups and discussion forums designated
for the unit, and more.

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to visit the UIP Database.
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Thank You from Deployed Marines

Attention on Deck: From & About Our Marines

We received the following three "Thank You" postcards from Marines who received
care packages from our July 23rd shipment. Click on the image to enlarge.
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Team Marine Parents

Participant Spotlight: Jim Reikowsky

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As the Marine Corps Marathon approaches on October 29th this year, we'd like to
highlight Team Marine Parents participant Jim, who is running the marathon on behalf
of Marine Parents to raise money for one of our outreach programs, The Care Package
Project.

Jim says:

"My son enlisted in August 2010 and as a new Marine Parent I felt it was important
to do whatever I could for him and the rest of our troops. So I am running the 2011
Marine Corp Marathon in honor of my Marine and all others that are serving our country
around the world. My son is currently stationed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat
Center, Twentynine Palms, California.

The outreach program I decided to help fundraise for is the Care Package Project.
Help me exceed my goal of $300!"

Jim has already raised $125 towards The Care Package Project. Let's help him reach
his goal of $300!

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Wear Red on Fridays!

EGA Store Supporter Spotlight

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Vickie says:

"Aglaee and myself were on our way to watch a documentary about the Patriot Guard
at Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas. Aglaee's son is a Major stationed at Camp LeJeune
and my son is a Lance Corporal station[ed] in Okinawa, Japan."

Thank you for sharing this photo Vickie! We love to get photos from our supporters.
If you have a photo you'd like to share, send it to store@marineparents.com. To
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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 an August 2011 USMC Photo by Cpl.
Garry J. Welchof a Marine with the Force Reconnaissance Platoon, 31st Marine Expeditionary
Unit, engaging multiple targets during an eight-week live-fire training course,
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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 400,000 Marine and recruit
families during bootcamp, training, active duty and deployments. We've shipped over
30,000 care packages overseas to our Marines in Iraq Afghanistan, sent 60,000 of
prayers and letters to injured Marines and served thousands of meals to Wounded
Warriors and their families on both the East and West coasts. You've found a Place
to Connect & Share(TM).

God Bless and Semper Fidelis,

Tracy Della Vecchia

Founder and Executive Director
MarineParents.com, Inc.

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