Summary
For more than 50 years, the Toys for Tots program has played Santa Claus for thousands of children who otherwise might not have had the chance to unwrap a gift on Christmas morning.
Toys for Tots began in 1947 when Maj. Bill Hendricks and a group of Marine Corps reservists in Los Angeles collected and distributed 5,000 toys to needy children.See the full content of this document
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Toys for Tots has Lasting Impact
The idea came from Hendricks' wife, Diane. In the fall of 1947, she handcrafted a Raggedy Ann doll and asked her husband to deliver the doll to an organizatio...
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