Collected up over 500 toys for the needy kids in the comunity and donated them to the caring center. Been doing it every year since the second year I was in the Corps. I use to put the dress Blues on and escort Santa to all the official small town gigs. The kids loved it! Santa would tell them that the Marines protect santa! I use to love that! Even when I was a kid believing in Santa, Dad would take me out to the store and we would buy a few toys for the firemans Christmas toy drive. I always felt good after doing that.
One year a kid told me he never went outside to play for weeks after Christmas because he didnt want to tell the other kids he didnt get anything. Another kid thought you got cans of soup, because thats all he ever got.
The frustrating part is the whole time these kids are telling you this, their parents are puffing on their 6th pack of cigarets that day.
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2000 2500 Red Sport quad cab, 4x4, K&N, DDI's, straight piped, boost, pyro and fuel pressure gages, Hot Power Edge, mean looking set of 33. 5" tires, Snap On diamond tool box, Marine Corps window sticker, Semper Fi!
1972 340 Cuda'. Original tripple Black, 340 car w/air. Good clean car, super stock springs, Weld Prostars, shaker hood, strong 340 with a 727/4000 stahl, 4. 56... . Bombs away!
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