Blue Star Moms say the locals are so giving, but after so many years at war it's harder to fill boxes for carepackages for the troops.
The Bartlesville Blue Star moms are packing boxes tonight to send to the troops from oklahoma.
Fox 23's Jamie Oberg shows us the blood, sweat and tears that go into these moms mission.
Bartlesville Blue Star moms are filling up these boxes, even simple hygiene items can mean so much if they come from home, but lately it's been harder to fill these boxes, moms do what they can so every local soldier gets at least something."
“They’ll walk in from a long day and they have a box on their cot with their name on it, from their hometown, it means the world to them,” mom Angel Barrows said.
Blue Star mom Angel Barrows tries her best to hold it together but it's hard when her son will set out his third deployment in just two weeks.
"It doesn't get any easier," Barrow said.
To stay busy these military moms from Bartlesville pack boxes to send to Oklahoma troops.
"You never know who you're going to touch,” she said.
This former marine knows, it means a lot.
"For them, I know it’s going to make them feel a lot more at home a lot more at ease," William Ely said.
All soldiers mean the world to these moms, but it really hits home when they don't have enough for everyone.
"We've had months where we haven't had anything to send, because it's not here," Barrows said.
Letters from local schools help...and they pack them up with love and they don't complain, this warehouse where they collect soap, toothpaste, books and magazines, doesn't have air conditioning.
"Our troops have to endure a lot worse, in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, if we can boost morale with these packages and give them something they don't have," Barrows said. "Knowing there community is behind them is everything."
You can drop donations off at Tallgrass Motors here in Bartlesville.
Right now we have about 3 thousand Oklahoma National Guard soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.
