MADISON, Miss. (WJTV) – The 10th Annual Christmas for the Troops Care Package Drive was hosted by Cub Scout Troop 164 in Madison on Saturday.
The tradition is near and dear to the hearts of everyone involved. For Kayla Applewhite and her brother, it started because of their own experience of deployments during the holidays.
“Our dad was deployed, two deployments in Vietnam and a deployment in Desert Storm. So, that’s what really inspired this a decade ago. We’ve experienced our father being deployed during the holidays, and so we know what that’s like,” Applewhite said…