Operation Shoebox was founded in 2003 by Mary Harper after her 3 sons, daughter and son in law were deployed to Iraq at the same time. In an effort to get much needed support over to the troops Mary, her mom and friend Debbee placed boxes around the city to collect items needed by the troops. OSB is currently working towards our 2 millionth care package. We have volunteers working all over the state of Florida and across the country to get our care packages over to the troops! Our veterans here in the US are getting a lot of support through charities which is wonderful but we still have thousands of deployed troops that need us and thats why what we do is so important.