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Program Gives Holiday Meals To Military Families

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Hundreds of military families got a free holiday meal as part of Operation Homefront's Holiday Meals for Military program. 

On Saturday in Clarksville, 200 families walked away with non-perishables, as well as a Walmart gift card for the rest of the groceries needed for a full holiday meal.

Cracker Barrel also gave each family a $25 gift card.

The program got its start during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2009. It began as a chance encounter between a soldier, his family, and a supermarket employee in New York.

When the soldier couldn’t afford a handful of grocery items with his wife and infant, the employee picked up the $12 bill.

The program has since grown to provide more than 8,000 meal kits to military families nationally this holiday season.

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