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APPEARANCES IN ORDER:
VINCENT J. RUSSO, ESQ. Russo Law Group, P. C.
VICTORIA ROBERTS-DROGIN Russ O Law Group. P. C.
EMILY GORDON-SPENCER, Founder Heartillery Group
SUSAN RUSSO, Executive Director Theresa Academy for Performing Arts (TAPA)
( – TODD BELISLE, President
> Center for Special Needs Trust Administration
- ANTHONY STANGANIELILI
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- RUSSO : Welcome, everyone, to
Family Comes First. I’m Vincent J.
RUSSO.
- ROBERTS – DIRIOGIN : AC I’m
Victoria Roberts-Drogin. Thank you for
joining us.
Today, we will be talking about an
inspiring Organization founded by a
beautiful young Soul in her dining room
to help those who serve Our Country.
- RUSSO: We should never forget
that Our military is protecting Our
freedom every day, and we need to support
Our troops.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Absolutely.
So, today we will be talking about
messages from the heart right here on
Family Comes First.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: The
Heartillery Group’s mission is to show
Support, love and gratitude to Our troops
Overseas in very simple but very powerful
ways.
- RUSSO: Absolutely. Let’s
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welcome Emily Gordon-Spencer, the founder of
The Heartillery Group.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN : Wel COme .
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- RUSSO: And we know Emily for
a long time.
MS . ROBERTS-DROGIN: YeS .
- RUSSO: And Who el Se do We
have?
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Well, we are
very fortunate to have today the
executive director of the Theresa Academy
for Performing Arts , TAPA, and if I may
say, Vincent, your better half, Susan
RUSS O .
- RUSSO: I will agree with
that.
- RUSSO: Thank you.
- RUSSO: It’s On the record.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: It S. On the
record. Welcome to both of you. Thank
you for being here.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Now, your
families have a long history together. I
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understand from when you were a little girl;
is that right?
- RUSSO: Yes. Her dad Harley
Gordon and I were involved as founders
of the National Academy of Elder Law
Attorneys.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Oh, okay.
- RUSSO: And so we go way back
when there was no field of elder law, and
we were colleagues at the time and we
became very good friends. And, we’re
able to share Our families over the
years.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Right.
- RUSSO: And so this is just
absolutely awesome .
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you so
Imuch.
- RUSSO: And you look so great.
You turned Out So well.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- RUSSO: Your parents did a
wonderful job.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you so
Imuch. It’s such an honor to be here.
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Thank you for inviting me.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Now, at One
point even, I think you met Theresa.
- RUSSO: We were in Boston,
probably for a National Academy of Elder
Law Attorneys meeting.
- RUSSO: No, no. Well, maybe.
We were visiting.
- RUSSO: We were visiting – – –
all four kids and we went over to your
house, and hung Out, I think, for a
while, and Theresa was still pretty
little.
So, we pas sed around the baby.
- RUSSO: And you were the
oldest of the group.
- RUSSO: You were the Olde St.
- RUSSO: So we trusted you.
You held Theresa. Not Sure about the
Others.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Tell us a
little bit about Theresa, Susan, and
about TAPA.
- RUSSO: She was the third Of
our four children, and she was born with
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1 multiple disabilities, so she was predicted
2 to only live one year by most of the
3 doctors, but One who was the head Of the
- Neonatal Unit at Lenox Hill, and he said
5 oh, she’ll probably live to be about six
6 years old. And, she did.
7 She passed away at five-and-a-
8 half . We Started the Theresa Foundation
9 the very next year, because the things
10 that Theresa loved most were music,
11 recreation. She loved being in a
12 swimming pool, and SO we said the mission
13 of the foundation would be to Support
14 arts and recreation programs because, as
15 you all know, those are the first
16 programs that get Cut from any budget – –
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18 MS. ROBERTS-DROGIN: And you have
19 a background in the arts as well.
2 O MS. RUSSO : – – – specifically
21 with kids for special needs; other little
22 Theresa S.
23 So, we’ve done some big projects
24 over the years. We just celebrated Our
21st year as a foundation, and seven
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years ago we started The Theresa Academy of
Performing Arts, which is locally based
and we serve kids in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Wonderful.
- RUSSO: It’s an art – Centered
program, totally recreation, no
therapies, because these children have
therapy all the time.
So, this is a place for them to
Come and be safe and be comfortable. All
of Our faculty is certified in their
genre. We have several of us with
Special Ed Master’s On top of dance ed.
music ed. and art degrees.
And we’ve been doing really a lot
of – – – having a lot of fun, and doing a
lot of good work locally with our
families, because we have the kids, but
we also work with families.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Wonderful.
- RUSSO: So, now there’s going
to be this connection.
- ROBERTS – DROGIN : YeS ,
- RUSSO: Right? We’re going to
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circle back to Emily.
And how did you come up with the
idea of the Heartillery Group? What do
you do? Why do you do it? All those
questions.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Well,
Heartillery started very much by
accident.
- RUSSO: Out of your mind.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Just Out Of
my head. My husband and I had gotten
married in September of 12.
- RUSSO: He has a name?
MS … GORDON – SPENCER ; SCOtt
Spencer; my husband Scott and I, we got
married in September of 2012, and five
months later he was deploying to
Afghanistan. We had just moved into a
new house, and I didn’t really have a lot
of community around me.
SO, I was – – –
- RUSSO: So, the shy person
that you are – – –
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes, I’m very
shy. Very hard for me to meet people.
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- RUSSO: You created a community.
MS … GORDON – SPENCER ; I Created a
Community, and you know, you have
choices. You can be at home and be
lonely, or think, ‘Oh, my husband is
gone. What am I going to do?” Or, you
get up and do something. I was already
sending him cards and care packages, and
I thought maybe the other guys and
females in our unit might enjoy cards as
well, So I just put up a note On my
Facebook page, and so about six weeks
later we had about 17, 000 cards.
- RUSSO : 17, OOO2
- GORDON-SPENCER: Ye S. From
twenty-two states.
- RUSSO: Did the mail person
quit? Did they actually deliver 17, 000
envelopes?
- GORDON-SPENCER: They came in
spurts, but they were in – – –
- RUSSO: Were you investigated?
Why is this person who was getting no
mail – – – One day, all of a Sudden
starts getting all this mail?
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- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Amazing.
MS … GORDON – SPENCER : YeS … We
didn’t have a PO Box, so they came right
to my house. They came in hundreds.
- RUSSO: Whether sleet, SnOW,
irain – – –
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yep .
- RUSSO: They kept coming.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yep. Yep.
MS, ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’s
amazing.
- RUSSO: Were they in boxes, or
were these in mail bags?
- GORDON-SPENCER: They were in
boxes and envelopes.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: The
Outpouring.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Ye S.
- RUSSO: And then you said?
MS … GORDON – SPENCER : And then II
said, wow ! I have to get these over
there.
Scott at the time didn’t know I
was doing this. He was gone and – – –
- RUSSO: Husbands never knoW
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what the wives are doing.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: It’s easier
that way.
- GORDON-SPENCER: So I
actually – – –
- RUSSO: It is better that way.
- GORDON-SPENCER: – – – Called
him, or I didn’t call him. We were
emailing each other, because it’s an
eight-hour time difference, and I asked
him how many people are on Kandahar
Airfield, which is where he was
Stati Oned and he Said, I Can’t tell
you, but a lot.” And so I said, ‘Well,
I’m going to send you 17, 000 cards.” And
he said, ‘What?”
So, we packed them up in boxes of
300 and got them over there right in time
for Christmas, and he was able to play
Scotty Claus.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’s
3W6e:SOTT)6
- GORDON-SPENCER: Ye S.
- RUSSO: Let’s Show SOme of the
Cards. I mean – – –
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- ROBERTS-DROGIN: YeS.
MS … GORDON – SPENCER : Sure .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: These, you
said now, were from a woman in Texas who
made the Se?
- GORDON-SIPENCER: Yes. The Se
ones are handmade, and they came from one
of our volunteers in Texas. She sends me
all Of these Custom Original art.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: They almost
look like ornaments.
- RUSSO: And I love this smile.
That’s really nice.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. Yes, so
they’re all different.
- RUSSO: And this iS What?
- GORDON-SPENCER: This is
actually a handmade envelope, actually,
that somebody sent One of these cards in.
- RUSSO: Beautiful.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: So they have
SOme news and SOme – – –
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes, SO SOme
of the kids will share stories, they
share jokes.
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- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’s
beautiful. And then you’ve reached Out –
MS . GORDON-SPENCER : Mm-hmm.
- ROBERTS – DIRIOGIN : – – – back to
SUS aIl .
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. So, I
didn’t have any – – – there were people
reaching out to me locally that didn’t
have any cards available, and so I called
Vincent and Susan, and I asked them if
some of their children may want to donate
some art or do a project at the Theresa
Foundation, and they said yes.
SO, they Started Sending us images
that were created by their children.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: And here’s
Max, one of the kids in the program.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. And we
turned them into cards. We include their
bio and their photo on the back, so that
people that are reading them know that
all of the stuff is donated, and it
really incorporates COmmunity.
So, that’s all this was Supposed
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to do, was bring people together and spread
love .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: And Create
community.
Now, Susan, do the children know
what’s, you know, what’s – – –
- RUSSO: They do.
- ROBERTS – DIRIOGINI: SOme dO .
- RUSSO: We love thematic
units, because we’re all teachers, and so
Emily comes up with these great ideas and
themes.
This particular One was for
Valentine’s Day, and Emily had asked for
heart-themed artwork, and the kids had a
great time. This is just one piece. We
sent in several pieces that she was able
to recreate and send out for Valentine’s
Day, so we’ve done Christmas themes,
general beautiful art, and they know that
there’s a project and the art teachers
explain where everything is going and the
kids work very hard. They’re very proud
Of their artwork.
- RUSSO: It’s just incredible.
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- RUSSO: The Ones who can Write
will sometimes sign the Cards and will
Write little messages which is very
SWeet.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Emily, do you
ever get feedback? Like, someone’s
received a package or a letter?
MS . GORDON-SPENCER: YeS YeS .
So, we started – – – I started sending
them to just my husband’s unit. And then
the more that people found Out about what
we were doing, they started sending me
addresses; my son is here, my daughter is
here, my niece and nephew, Could you Send
them something, and we said, ‘Sure.”
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’s great.
- RUSSO: All right, so now
we’re going to take a break.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: When we get
back from the break – – –
- RUSSO: So everybody is going
to have to stay tuned.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Right.
- RUSSO: So you can tell us
what happens from there. This is
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awesome. It’s just great to have you. On.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- RUSSO: Messages from the
Heart.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- RUSSO: Family Comes First.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: We’ll be back
- RUSSO: We’ll be back.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: – – – in just
a minute.
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- BELISLE : The Center fOr
Special Needs Trust Administration was
created over fifteen years ago. The
reason for the creation of the Center was
to help those individuals who needed
help; to help those individuals who are
On SSI ; who are On Medi. Caid; who are On
housing assistance; who are On food
assistance.
Previously, those individuals were
left to fend for themselves. On One
particular day, their life Changed, and
they had nowhere to go. What the Center
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provides through its trust administration
Services is an Outlet for them; for them
to live a better and more productive
life.
太安安 宏 宏 ★安安
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Wel COme baCk
to Family Comes First. We are continuing
our conversation with Emily Gordon
Spencer and her wonderful initiative, the
Heartillery Group, and we were just about
to talk about Some of the WOnderful
things you put in these packages for Our
military.
We were wondering about the first
time you ever heard back from someone who
had received your packages.
MS GORDON-SPENCER: YeS. It WaS
fun. I mean, Facebook is amazing.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Ye Sp
MS … GORDON – SPENCER : It’s just SO
amazing to, you know, you send these
things out and you have a name and you
have an address and there ” S S Ort Of a
blind faith. You know they’re going to
get there and you hope that they get as
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1 much joy as you’ve gotten from doing it.
2 We get feedback on our Facebook
3 page from all service members, from all
4 branches.
5 MS. ROBERTS – DROGIN : WOnderful.
6 MS. GORDON—SPENCER : We Serve all
7 branches.
8 MR. RUSSO: So, share a couple of
9 Stories.
1 O MS. GORDON-SPENCER: So, we had a
11 – – – we sent a box to a service member
12 and he wrote back saying that he had been
13 Overseas for six months and hadn’t
14 received one piece of mail, until he got
15 One Of Our boxes.
16 So, we were able to incorporate
17 both cards and care package items,
18 because once people found Out we were
19 sending cards, people WOuld also ask if
2O they could send service items and I said
21 yes, of course. So, people Started
22 dropping those at my house.
23 MS. ROBERTS-DROGIN: So you’re
24 getting boxes of toothpaste and SOCkS.
25 MS. GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. And
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Halloween candy from the buybacks at
Halloween.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’s great.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Which is
great, because the candy is great,
because it’s miniature.
- ROBERTS – DIRIOGIN : YeS.
MS – GORDON — SPENCER : AC I CO
festivals, especially in the summer, and
so I’ll go and bring my little banner and
my Heartillery Crate, and I’ll go out and
kids will come over and they’ll draw
cards, and their parents get to have a
Conversation with them about where
they’re going and a conversation about
our service members and where they are in
the world . It’s a really nice learning
experience for them, and for us, we get
the art from these tiny babies, which is
SO CUlte.
- RUSSO: So, let’s look at the
bOX.
MS , ROBERTS – DROGIN : YeS.
- RUSSO: We keep talking about
package. So, let’s pull this box up
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and let’s take a look at all Of What’s in
here.
So, there are a bunch of Cards
that are put in the box?
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. So, we
incorporate – – –
- RUSSO: You Can have the
SOCkS.
IMS … GORDON – SPENCER ; WES
incorporate cards in the box.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: So much good
Stuff.
- RUSSO : Ye S.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Toothpaste.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Toothpaste.
MS … GORDON – SPENCER : RaZOS .
- RUSSO: Ah, the Doritos.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: I See OreCS
in here.
- RUSSO: Tot’s Of Oreos. And a
aZO
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: This is
great.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Any food that
you can mix water with is really great.
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- ROBERTS-DROGIN: So the drink
mixes, you had Said.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes, the
drink mixes, and you now, Cup O NOOdles
and ma CarOni and Chee Se .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: This is Stuff
that feels like home.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. When
Scott was on his first deployment, I used
to make him homemade granola bars, and I
used to package them up separately
because some of them would have nuts in
them, some of them would have chocolate
in them, and you didn’t know who was
getting them, so you wanted to make Sure
you wrote, Has nuts in them” in Case
they had allergies.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Right, right.
MS . GORDON – SPENCER : YOU e Ver
knew. But, it was one of those ways to
bring a piece of home and send it
overseas, and it wasn’t terribly
unhealthy, but they always preferred the
junk food.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Now, there
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was a guy who recognized you. Once, when you
did a fair, right? And he came over to
your table.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes. Yes.
We send letters in the top of all these
boxes, and we do a lot of Community
involvement, so communities help us,
local churches help us, the military team
counsel did a project with us, so we
always recognize the people that COme
together that bring items, and we put
their logos up, and we took a team photo
and put it On this parti Cular letter, and
I was out at a festival, and he happened
to come by and he said, ‘I know
Heartillery Group from somewhere.” And I
said, ‘Oh, well, that’s great. That’s
awesome. We’ve only been around for
seven months. ” I mean, that’s really
Cool. And he said, ‘I went Out On a
miSSi On and I Came back and there were
thirty boxes addressed to me.”
MR, RUSSO: WOW TO me.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That S
amazing.
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- GORDON-SPENCER: Yes, to me. I
said, ‘That’s awesome . ” And he said, ‘I
was a celebrity.” Everybody wanted to
See what was going On and what all the
boxes were .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That’ S
wonderful.
- GORDON-SPENCER: And he said,
I don’t even know how you got my name, “
or anything like that. One of his family
members had reached out and provided us
his address, and we had the boxes, and SO
we said, why not send them?
- RUSSO: It’s got to make you
feel good inside.
MS … GORDON – SPENCER ; It’s great.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That S
amazing.
- GORDON-SPENCER: When they go
to individuals, it doesn’t just go to an
individual. It may get mailed to an
individual, but you know, people COme,
other people in their unit – – –
- RUSSO: Right.
- GORDON-SPENCER: – – – COS
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over and they get to share all this stuff,
so it’s a sense of Creating your Own
small community wherever you are; whether
you’re in- Country or overseas, it’s a
tremendous feeling of allowing an
individual to be a part of their Own
community with handing these things Out,
so it was pretty awesome.
MS, ROBERTS-DROGIN: In fact, One
of our guests on a show that we were
doing on women’s veterans, Justina Pena,
you met her, and she was the recipient Of
one of your boxes.
- RUSSO: Tell us about that .
- GORDON-SPENCER: It was really
cool to meet her and just, I mean these
women, they’re just SO, SO brave.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: I had tears
watching her.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Oh, my
goodness. And she just said, it means SO
much, and you have no idea how much it
means to get a message from home and to
get these letters and these cards and
these packages from people that you’ll
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never meet, she started to Cry and she just
gave me a hug, and it was like why I do
this stuff. I mean, it’s pure joy for
6.
- RUSSO: Did you have any idea
that this would happen?
MS . GORDON-SPENCER: NO ,
- RUSSO: That your idea would
do all this good?
- GORDON-SPENCER: No. I mean,
there’s so many – – – we live in such a
generous world, and it can be a very hard
world, but there’s so much love Out there
and there are so many people that care.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: But it takes
someone special to make it happen. There
is so much love in the world, and so many
people do care, but it takes a very
special person to actually put it
together and execute it.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
MR, RUSSO : It’s the
implementation.
MS, ROBERTS-DROGIN: Ye S.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
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1 MS. ROBERTS-DROGIN: And you did
2 that .
3 MS. GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- MR. RUSSO: So we want to just
5 give you a hug and the biggest thank you
6 for all that you’ve done and will
7 Continue to do.
8 MS … GORDON – SPENCER : Thank yOll. M
9 MR. RUSSO: And you’re just
1 O incredible and we want all our viewers to
11 Support.
12 MS. GORDON-SPENCER: Please.
13 MS. ROBERTS-DROGIN: Yes. So say
14 the website.
15 MS. GORDON-SPENCER: Ye S.
16 MS. ROBERTS-DROGIN: We’ll say it,
17 tCO.
18 MS. GORDON – SPENCER : YOUl Cain – – –
19 if you’d like to make a donation, we are
2O a hundred percent voluntary, SO every
21 dollar in, is every dollar out. You can
22 go to HeartilleryGroup. Org to make a
23 donation, or you can go Online, alSO to
24 Our website, and look at a really cool
25 list of packing items, and we’ll take
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cards and service items all year round.
- RUSSO: Fantastic.
MS ROBERTS-DROGIN: COme back and
tell us more.
- GORDON-SPENCER: Thank you.
- RUSSO: Yes. We will
definitely follow up.
We are now going to take a break,
and we will be right back.
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- ROBERTS-DROGIN: So, Vincent,
we have just had the profound pleasure of
meeting with Emily and Heartillery and
having this conversation with Susan.
It’s incredible the generosity and the
lives that her – – – she’s created this
Out of nothing, and how many people it’s
touched.
- RUSSO: We learn that SOmeone
can have a simple idea, and then it’s the
question of doing it, implementing it.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Yes, SO
Simple.
- RUSSO: Saying, I believe it.
And then, it’s amazing how it can grOW,
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and grow and I mean, from a couple of Cards
to a few thousand to 17, 000 to 300, 000
cards, and it’s not just the relationship
she has in giving those cards, it’s then
the recipients, the individuals who give
them, who receive them.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That touched
me almost the most was the , was having
the people who received the box be able
to give out the cards to the people
around them.
- RUSSO: That’s right.
M.S. ROBERTS-DROGIN: And
community. That ‘ s another theme that II
think really came Out from Our
Conversation there.
She created a community for
herself and also created communities for
everyone that sent cards, everyone that
received cards. You know, she built
these networks based on appreciation,
love and generosity.
- RUSSO: And how many families
has she touched?
MS ROBERTS-DROGIN: Hundred S?
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- RUSSO : Hundre CS .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Thousands.
- RUSSO: Thousands. Thousands
of families that now have joy from
receiving it. Conversation they’re now
having about the cards. So, it’s just
fantastic.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Yes, it is .
- RUSSO: So, we’re going to
welcome Our Spiritual advisor, Father
Tony Stanganelli .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Yes, wel COme.
- STANGANELLI : Thank you very
Imuch. It was a wonderful, Wonderful
Sessi On you had .
MS, ROBERTS-DROGIN: It was fun,
wasn’t it?
- STANGANELLI : It really was .
You could see the energy that was right
here in this wonderful place of
COmmuni Cati On . AWe SOme.
You know what I thought was so
incredible about the work that Emily does
is that how she was able to reach out to
people; create community.
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How many times do people say, gee,
want to do something, and I don’t know
what to do. What difference can I make
in Wanting to better somebody el se s
life, wanting to reach out to somebody
Overseas, so she becomes a conduit so
that other people then can do something;
something simple, something small, but
with great love. Those were the words of
Mother Theresa.
Mother Theresa said, ‘Do small
things with great love.”
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: That S
beautiful.
- STANGANELILI : And isn’t that
wonderful that somebody can create the
conduit to allow that to happen, so that
people can actually connect with other
people and say thank you, what you’re
doing is worthwhile, what you’re doing is
important, and it makes a difference in
my life and then others feel that same
sense of importance in doing what they’re
doing overseas. It’s awesome.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: It’s really
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beautiful.
- RUSSO: Yes. We think about
joy, the greatest joy is giving; not
really receiving. It’s the giving, and
it’s all about the giving with the cards.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: I think about
the kids, who sat down and thought about
what they wanted to write. They maybe
never would have thought about that, if
what she created didn’t exist; to ask
them, think about what this means to you.
- RUSSO: All the envelopes with
the little kids writing Marines” or
Army” on the envelope, and Writing from
their heart.
- ROBERTS – DIROGIN : I know.
Right.
- RUSSO: You know? And
reaching Out.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: So beautiful.
- STANGANELLI : It just strikes
me that everyone wants to make a
difference.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: YeS
- STANGANELLI : FrOm the
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smallest child to the Senior Citizen,
everybody wants to make a difference in
this world, but it takes somebody
creative to call forth that gift and
allow that gift to materialize for the
sake Of someone else, and what a great
work that Emily does in that.
- RUSSO: Wonderful.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: And, Susan,
to O.
- RUS SO: WOnderfUL .
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Not to leave
Susan off the table, right?
- RUSSO: Wonderfully said. But
we’re running out of time.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Okay.
- RUSSO: We cannot thank enough
our men and women in the armed forces who
have put their lives on the line.
Today we shared with you one
Organization that has taken the time to
recognize their efforts.
- ROBERTS-DROGIN: Absolutely.
And for more information or if you want
to donate to Heartillery or participate,
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you can visit their website. It’s
HeartilleryGroup. Org, and you can also
Visit Vincent’s law firm website and
there’s a lot of information there about
other programs to benefit veterans, and
that S at VJ RuSSOLaw. COm.
- RUSSO: And I’ll menti On the
Theresa Academy of Performing Arts.
MS , ROBERTS – DROGIN : YeS.
- RUSSO: That S T-A-P-A-N-
- Org, and I want to thank all Of Our
viewers for joining us and remember,
family truly does Come first.
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