OPERATION GRATEFUL GIVING
Every year we coordinate the creation and distribution of Holiday Gift Bags for the veterans who are in-patient at Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee,
the veterans in-residence at Vets Place Central and Boudicca House,
and the families in residence at Fisher House.
We fill over 500 gift bags with lots of fun goodies - playing cards from Potawatomi Casino, mini-bags of Jelly Bellys, puzzle books, pens, pencils, pads of paper, candy canes, chocolate and other edibles, plus free mp3s from Warrior Songs and Liquid Mind, and other items donated by caring civilians and organizations. Volunteers can help solicit items for the bags, help fill the bags in early December and then distribute the bags on Christmas Eve morning.​
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Scroll further down this page to volunteer to fill bags or deliver bags.
For Operation Grateful Giving 2024 we were once again able to personally deliver bags on Christmas Eve. We distributed 300 bags to the veterans and nurses stations at the VA. The rest of the bags were delivered to Boudicca House and Vets Place Central and Fisher House. We recorded this video after we stuffed the bags. We included it here so you can see our personal holiday greeting and thank you to our veterans.
Many thank you's to the organizations that support this event:
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American Legion Auxiliary Unit 18, Milwaukee
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American Legion Auxiliary Unit 416, Greendale
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Potawatomi
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Rogers Behavioral Health
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Chuck Wild - LiquidMindMusic.com
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Jason Moon - WarriorSongs.org
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WI Veterans Community Foundation
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and all of the individual donors of goodies, time and love!!!
2025 Operation Grateful Giving
We will be stuffing bags on 12/21/2025.
If you are interested in participating in the bag stuffing or delivery,
please fill out the form below and we will contact you.