got into dress blue uniforms and went out and distributed those toys, books, dolls diane had made to less fortunate children in l.a. literally overnight and it spread like wildfire and by 1948 all reserve units have a program similar to this but it got the attention of general cates who decided to make an official mission of the marine corps reserve so the rest is history and as of this day 1947 we have reached 281 million children. the one general cook and cates picking up the torch and 75 years later, general, why do you do this? we do it to bring hope to children and let me say also. we used to be known principally as christmas time charity. over the last couple of years, especially with the pandemic, we