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Operation shoe box is there to pack items they need. the troops love it. mary harper started this organization ten years ago, and all of these volunteers come kwrefrp monday to the come every monday to the villages to pack these wonderful care packages. it is such a heartwarming story for veterans day and mary harper is here and lieutenant colonel ricksby. mary, let s talk about how this get started ten years ago. my kids were deployed in iraq and there was a need to get stuff over to them. i went and got shoe boxes and the people in the community to help us and that s where it all began in my living room. today we re here with amazing million packages. we re going to pack the millionth care package today. we ve got 8,000 of these boxes to get through. we re going to do it. lieutenant colonel rixy, tell us what operation shoe box means to you? firsthand i ve received packages in three different ....
He paced this room for nearly an hour. finally shrieking i got it and slumping down in a chair. wiped tears from his eyes and said, wendell, this was a decision so complex, so far reaching from so many pitfalls, and still filled with so much good, if it was right. i had to work it out in this room and with you, and i had to ask god about it. reporter: to protect ricky s privacy, the pastor told only his wife who wrote a five-page essay we recently found in an archive. the pastor s wife said she wrote the essay which appeared in the church bulletin with little notice an ricky s death in 1965 so that robinson would know how much ricky struggled with it. but robinson died young in 1972. and his widow rachel told us the story never made it to her family until now. and she praised rixy s courage. he needed all the strength he ....