The Last Word: Sharing with soldiers

April 1, 2009
The national highway safety program Share the Road, in partnership with Operation Interdependence (OI), recently delivered leftover non-perishable items to make care packages for U.S. soldiers serving overseas. The donated items were transported by Share the Road drivers from a convention in Myrtle Beach, SC, to the OI distribution center in Houston. Volunteers from Houston, including members of the

The national highway safety program Share the Road, in partnership with Operation Interdependence (OI), recently delivered leftover non-perishable items to make care packages for U.S. soldiers serving overseas.

The donated items were transported by Share the Road drivers from a convention in Myrtle Beach, SC, to the OI distribution center in Houston. Volunteers from Houston, including members of the Navy, Marines and Air Force, were onsite on a Sunday morning to unload the tractor-trailer's worth of items so they could be arranged into the care packages.

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