- The VFW Post 7721 Auxiliary is continuing a Christmas card mission started by a late Air Force veteran.
- The project, “Mission: Operation Christmas Cards for Veterans,” sends thousands of cards to veterans in hospitals and nursing homes.
- The mission was founded by Renee Whisner, who was inspired after noticing fellow veterans received no cards while she was hospitalized.
Members of the VFW Post 7721 Auxiliary are keeping a late veteran’s mission intact of bringing Christmas cheer to veterans across Florida and beyond.
Hours upon hours are spent in a back room at the VFW Post in Golden Gate putting a handwritten note, often penned by local students, into individual Christmas cards.
The cards are bundled with festive ribbon and boxed for shipping to more than 200 veterans’ hospitals, nursing homes and the like in ten states…