American Heritage Girls Troop MA3712 honor our veterans

To honor our veterans American Heritage Girls Troop MA3712 from Seekonk participated in Operation Gratitude (www.operationgratitude.com). Siera Larkin, Pioneer Scout, adopted Operation Gratitude for her service level award project this year. Siera's goal is to make and collect 100 paracords and 100 letters! Siera also enlisted the help of the 3rd and 4th graders in Faith Formation classes at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel with the letter writing campaign.

Operation Gratitude sends over 150,000 care packages a year to new recruits, deployed troops, veterans, and wounded warriors. Letters of thanks maybe the only thank yous they have received so far. Our younger scouts wrote letters while our older scouts twisted parachute cord to make 7.5 ft long paracord survival bracelets to be donated to current servicemen and women. The cords are worn as bracelets and can hold up to 550 pounds. When unraveled in an emergency they can be used as a sling, splint, sewing thread for wounds, tripwire, nets, traps and more!