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Upcoming Events:
Lunch, Bethesda Naval Hospital
Upcoming dates for lunches at Bethesda are handled on a week to week basis. We're providing lunches or dinner twice monthly to the wounded Marines and their families. As of March, 2009, we've provided over 3000 meals for families at Bethesda with their Marines or Sailors.
Dinner, Wounded Warriors Barracks, Balboa
We provide dinner for wounded warriors at Balboa each month. The barracks are for all branches of the service, and our dinners include between 100 to 150+ men and women at any one time.
If you would like to make a donation to help support the cost of our monthly lunches at Bethesda or Balboa, use the "Chip In" link above, or click here to donate in our MarineParents.com Interface.
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Purple Heart Family Support Meal, September 15,2007
Another Successful Lunch for Families and Marines at Bethesda Hospital
Purple Heart Family Support™ an outreach service of MarineParents.com.Inc., provided lunch to the family members of ill and injured Marines and Corpsmen at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD on Saturday, September 15th.
Staffed with five volunteers from MarineParents.com Outreach Services, patients and families at the hospital were able to eat a variety of burritos, salad, chips and salsa, and lots of soda. The food was greeted with much appreciation, particularly by some hungry patients, and at the end of the lunch almost all of the 100 hundred burritos were gone. The volunteers left the few extra with the Marines that work at the hospital, and who, in typical Marine fashion, would not eat until they made sure every family member and Marine patient got their food first.
One family member of a patient that enjoyed the meal even asked if he could donate some money to cover the cost of his meal, because he was so appreciative to have food brought in (they told him no!). Some of our volunteers who are Marine moms got the chance to play surrogate mom for some new Marine patients for the day by insisting that they eat some of the salad!
The cafeteria at Bethesda Naval Hospital is closed on the weekend. This is a necessary service and a fantastic way for you to support our troops and their families. If you would like to help Purple Heart Family Support™, please consider making a donation. 100% of donations go directly toward the cost of funding a lunch at the hospital.
