1,000 Military Kids To Receive Free Backpacks

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Operation Homefront will hold a Back-to-School Brigade event on Saturday in Manassas, where free backpacks full of school supplies will be given to military kids. The event will offer families information and resource booths, activities for kids, raffle prizes for gift cards and laptop computers, and an opportunity for children to meet and greet their favorite superhero characters.

The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Manassas Mall, at 8300 Sudley Road (Route 234) in Manassas.

“Military families deal not only with deployments and the other stresses of military life, but also the economic difficulties shared by all Americans,” said Vivian Dietrich, regional director of Operation Homefront. “These donated school supplies ease the financial burden back-to-school supplies cause while allowing the community to give back to military families who serve and sacrifice for our well-being.”

The school supplies were donated by people from the Washington, D.C., metro area and collected at local Dollar Tree stores as part of Operation Homefront’s nationwide Back-to-School Brigade program.