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It makes me feel
like Superman.

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I think when you're a
young Marine and you join

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up and you sign, enlist,
you want to fight for a

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good cause and a great
cause and what other cause

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better than being
able to help kids?

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So I'm Captain Smith, United States Marine Corps

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Reserves and I'm the Toys
for Tots coordinator for

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this region.

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This program has been in
existence since 1947, when

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a Marine Corps major and
his wife found that there

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was, they felt like they
should be doing more

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within their community,
and since that date, for

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the last 70 years almost,
we've been donating toys

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and that's the history
of this program and since

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then we have accumulated
millions of toys that have

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been contributed
throughout the program.

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We have dozens of
volunteers who come in

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each and every day who
help sort toys, they stuff

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bags, they count stuff for
us and we just couldn't do

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it without the community
partnership and that's

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probably the biggest piece
that allows, or enables

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this program to
be successful.

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As a service member I
think all of us when we

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sign up, we take an oath
to protect the nation and

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I think the greatest thing
that we as service members

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do and give is that
we make sacrifices.

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The Marine Corps is an
organization that has

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fought many, many battles,
many wars and I think, its

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something that I'm proud
of that we take pride in

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being able to give back
in our local communities.

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When we're not serving in
war, when we're at peace,

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we're able to
still give back.