DOT'S
CHRISTMAS STORE
Imagine
being in the hospital at Christmas time with no gifts to give to your family or others
who might drop by with a gift for you. An already stressful situation becomes
more depressing.
Now,
imagine the happiness when "Dot's Christmas Store" comes in to your room
to help you do your Christmas shopping...at no charge to you!
OAVN is a supporter Dot's Christmas Store which collects gifts so that EVERY
Veteran in the Jack C. Montgomery
VA Hospital
has a gift to give a loved one.
Hospitalized
Veterans at the Jack C. Montgomery
Hospital, in Muskogee, OK,
who
can’t get out of bed to shop for loved ones are given gifts from “Dot’s
Christmas
Store”. The purpose is to remove some of the holiday stress from these
deserving
men and women when they know they have a gift to give. This
is a really fun
project because no one participating is asked to go out
and
purchase gifts, yet
many people are surprised to find they can easily
help with this
project. We
ask for something from your "gift closet" (you know....where
you put the gifts
from your co-workers or your aunt that are nice but
just not your taste...yes,
the ones you plan to re-gift to someone
else). We'd like to keep it in the
$10-$15 range, that a Vet
might give to his wife or daughter, or a young lady
Vet might give to
her son or Dad.
It is the least we can do for these
deserving men and women.
UPDATED: December 22, 2011 Another great day at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Hospital
in Muskogee.
One of the nurses did tell us that a welcome gift would be a stocking type cap for the Veterans
as some of the older Vets are very frail and are so cold. (After Christmas sales would be a good
place to find them, if you would like to participate.)
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Tulsa World Story December 8, 2009 by Jason Ashley Wright
Letter from Greg Sorenson, after the event.
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