OOIDA’s Truckers for Troops® joins Wreaths Across America’s Truckloads of Remembrance

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OOIDA’s Truckers for Troops® joins Wreaths Across America’s Truckloads of Remembrance

OOIDA’s participation will honor and remember our nation’s veterans who were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery while providing resources for Truckers for Troops

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s Truckers for Troops®  announces its participation in the nationwide Truckload of Remembrance in partnership with the non-profit Wreaths Across America (WAA).

With this new partnership, Truckers for Troops is registered as a WAA payback Sponsorship Group supporting the efforts for wreath placement at Arlington National Cemetery. Truckload of Remembrance seeks to fill one trailer load of sponsored veterans’ wreaths to send to the cemetery this December. One trailer load is approximately 5,000 wreaths, which will be laid at the final resting place of service members as part of National Wreaths Across America Day.

Wreath sponsorships are $17 each and Truckers for Troops will receive back $5 per sponsorship, which will go to care packages and veterans services.

Each year, WAA partners with more than 300 transportation companies who help move the mission. These companies donate equipment, fuel, staffing and time to deliver loads of sponsored veterans’ wreaths to their final resting places on the headstones of our nation’s servicemembers laid to rest at more than 4,200 participating cemeteries.

Wreath sponsorships and more info here: Truckers for Troops website

TRUCKERS FOR TROOPS – Over the past 17 years, OOIDA has raised more than $800,000 dollars, sent more than 3,273 care packages, serving more than 39, 276 members of the military. We’ve also sent aid packages to 65 different facilities caring for wounded, disabled and homeless veterans, including the Veterans Community Project.

Donations only and more info found here: Truckers for Troops website. Individual tax-deductible contributions to the Truckers for Troops fund are also welcome and can be paid to the OOIDA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

CARE PACKAGE ADDRESSES

Anyone who has a family member or friend serving with the U.S. military, and who would like for them to get a care package, can send the name and complete address to troops@ooida.com and be sure to include projected stateside return date.

CARDS AND LETTERS SHOWING APPRECIATION

Send to: Attention: Truckers for Troops, P.O. Box 1000, Grain Valley, MO 64029. Towns or school names can be included, but please do not include last names or other personal information.

About Wreaths Across America

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery began in 1992. The organization’s yearling mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington and thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

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