The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Wal-Mart are helping deployed service members connect with
loved ones back home during the holiday season. Thanks to Wal-Mart and SAM’S CLUB
Foundation’s “Christmas” gift, 900,000 deployed military members will be receiving a Military
Assistance Communications Kit, otherwise known as a “MACK Pack,” according to the VFW. Each
kit includes a phone card, writing paper, note cards, envelopes, a 2005 calendar and a VFW
support letter. FedEx was expected to begin shipping the products overseas Veteran’s Day.
This is not the first time Wal-Mart has partnered with the VFW Foundation to help service
members and veterans. Over the past 24 months, the retail store and its foundation have
contributed more than 2.3 million phone cards to Operation Uplink, the VFW’s free phone card
program for active-duty members and hospitalized veterans.