Jill Biden stuffed care packages along with military families and National Guard members to send to Florida military families. The United Service Organization has sent more than 2 million care packages to service members, but had never made care packages for their families until now.
“The items in these packages will make life just a little bit easier for them,” Biden told the crowd Wednesday in a pep speech before the stuffing began.
“The Florida Air National Guard Troop, whose families will receive these packages … will spend the next year trying to create normalcy while missing a key member of their family. And I certainly know how that feels,” Biden said. Her son, Beau Biden, recently returned from a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
The USO completed 3,000 care packages at the event, which included greeting cards, disposable cameras and journals. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., and Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., also appeared.
