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    DHL at JFK Delivers Holiday Cheer to U.S. Troops Overseas

    DHL Operation Holiday Cheer is delivering hundreds of Christmas trees, holiday decorations and messages to U.S. troops stationed overseas.
    Metropolitan Airport NewsBy Metropolitan Airport NewsDecember 3, 2018No Comments2 Mins Read
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    JFK DHL Operation Holiday Cheer 2018

    Hundreds of fresh-cut Christmas trees, together with thousands of holiday letters, menorahs, decorations and gifts, will be on their way to members of the U.S. military stationed far from home, courtesy of DHL Express. They will be landing in U.S. bases in Afghanistan, Bahrain and Kuwait just in time to make it feel like the holidays back home—down to the fragrance of the trees that soldiers will be able to trim. Operation Holiday Cheer, one of many charitable programs that DHL runs, is now in its fourteenth year, with DHL Express once again teaming up with the New York community to deliver this welcome bit of home at holiday time.

    “Operation Holiday Cheer is one of the ways that DHL can say thank you to our servicemen and women for all they do,” said Greg Hewitt, CEO of DHL Express U.S. “The New York community is a great partner with us, and we are only too happy to put our expertise in global shipping to work for this great cause. Of the thousands of holiday deliveries that DHL makes this time of year, Operation Holiday Cheer is among the most rewarding—both for our company and for me, personally.”

    DHL JFK Operation Holiday Cheer

    Operation Holiday Cheer launches at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, December 3, when DHL Express picks up trees, letters, menorahs, gifts and decorations the company has packed from Long Island-based Dees’ Nursery. Local community and veterans groups, schools and Nassau County dignitaries will be on hand—although the most important personage will undoubtedly be Santa, who will come bearing gifts from DHL. Local schoolchildren and the Girl Scouts of Nassau County will read aloud letters they wrote to soldiers. The USO Show Troupe will also make an appearance, performing a variety of holiday and patriotic songs.

    From Dees’, the trees and trimmings will proceed via official police motorcade to the DHL Gateway facility at JFK International Airport, where they will fly to the DHL Americas Hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG). There they will be loaded onto a DHL 777 aircraft that travels nonstop to the Middle East.

    Local businesses and community organizations generously donated the holiday trees and gifts, including a donation from the Lt. Dennis W Zilinski Memorial Fund.

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