Operation Homefront helps with life's basics
By Miguel Saucedo, November 2009
World News Editor
Operation Homefront assists veterans and military families during a family member’s service deployment with such things as: auto repair, food, moving and urgent financial assistance. The 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization with more than 4,500 volunteers and 30 chapters around the country and overseas also provides assistance to active and activated Guard and Reserve families and primarily serves the rank of E-6 and below families.
According to Margy Bons, Arizona Chapter president, Operation Homefront helps on the average of three families per week here in the Phoenix Metro area.
She says the organization is divided into three different categories: families of those deployed, wounded warriors and active military.
Bons says they are a publicly supported organization and are always looking for financial donations.
“It takes money to turn on the electricity or buy groceries,” she says. “We recently had a mother with a child whose electricity was turned off on a Tuesday, and she waited for a few days to contact us. We had their lights back on Friday only because of the cash donations.”
Bons says she is continuing her son’s service, a Marine sergeant killed in an ambush by a suicide borne vehicle filled with improvised explosive devices while serving his country in Iraq. She writes that her son, Michael Marzano now lives in heaven and his angel date is May 7, 2005.
For more information or to make a donation in Margy Bons son’s name, go to www.operationhomefront.net
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