Operation Valentine
The OC Register
January 14, 2010
Sending Off Some Love for Marines
Moms and daughters spend Sunday preparing care packages for troops in Afghanistan.
by Britney Barnes
Miniature bottles of soap, toothbrushes in neon green blue and red, toys, white-cotton socks and candy were heaped in rows and tossed into cardboard boses as teenage girls went through the twisting, never-ending lines preparing care packages for the 1st Marines division troops in Afghanistan.

Inside each care package, a red or pink hand-written card with cutout hearts and sticker Cupids decorating the front wished a Marine a Happy Valentine's Day. National Charity League Inc. put together more than 2,000 care packages for the Marines on Sunday for its third annual Operation Valentine.
"Mail call is the best thing in the world, and it isn't so much what is inside, but that someone is thinking about you," said Col. Willard Buhl, the commanding officer of the 5th Marine Regiment.
Nearly 800 teenage girls and their mothers from all over Orange County, including Huntington Beach's chapter, descended on Camp Pendleton to assemble the packages and learn a little about the Marines.
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