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DO IT
From tucking in a letter to a few simple necessities, you can pack a powerful morale boost for our service men and women. Doing your part is made easy by Operation: Caramel Corn, created by Dominique Martucci, owner of Naper Nuts & Sweets. Items dropped off at the shop are packaged with hundreds of bags of the candy treat.

WHOM IT HELPS
Every two weeks, shipments go to military people serving in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. Martucci, who started the project after Sept. 11, remembers thinking: “I’m Italian; I’ve got to do something with food.” She welcomes names and addresses of service members for the project. To share good news from the home front, she includes a newsletter or letter of her own with each shipment.