Denim Day for Soldiers Organized Services (SOS) - Veteran's Day each Year
Students from JWMS help raise awareness for the SOS Foundation through selling bracelets, lanyards and drawstring backpacks during lunch for one week during Veteran's Day and Memorial Day.
Denim Day for Soldiers Organized Services (SOS)
Students from JWMS helped raise awareness for the SOS Foundation through a change drive during our lunches for Memorial Day 2014. Students also received the opportunity to meet and talk to the founder of the SOS Foundation, Erica Stone.
Erica Stone explained how she started the SOS Foundation....
One evening in 2007, Erica Stone, founder of Soldiers Organized Services (S.O.S.), was at the Palm Springs International Airport where she met a young Marine. He was hobbling on crutches, with a waist high cast, and wrestling with two large duffel bags.
The Marine had been shot, then fell off a roof during combat operations in Afghanistan, and was returning to base after a long deployment.
Erica agonized over having to tell the wounded warrior that he’d missed the last bus, and that a cab ride up to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) in Twenty Nine Palms would cost him between $150 and $200. His only other option was to spend the night in the airport lobby and wait for the next day’s bus.
The desperation in his face and his exhausted eyes were unbearable to see, so Erica insisted that he allow her to drive him to the Marine Corps base. Thus was the beginning of S.O.S.
After collecting change and donations from staff, we are pleased to announce that we made almost a $400 donation to the SOS Foundation.
Erica Stone explained how she started the SOS Foundation....
One evening in 2007, Erica Stone, founder of Soldiers Organized Services (S.O.S.), was at the Palm Springs International Airport where she met a young Marine. He was hobbling on crutches, with a waist high cast, and wrestling with two large duffel bags.
The Marine had been shot, then fell off a roof during combat operations in Afghanistan, and was returning to base after a long deployment.
Erica agonized over having to tell the wounded warrior that he’d missed the last bus, and that a cab ride up to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) in Twenty Nine Palms would cost him between $150 and $200. His only other option was to spend the night in the airport lobby and wait for the next day’s bus.
The desperation in his face and his exhausted eyes were unbearable to see, so Erica insisted that he allow her to drive him to the Marine Corps base. Thus was the beginning of S.O.S.
After collecting change and donations from staff, we are pleased to announce that we made almost a $400 donation to the SOS Foundation.