Photo:  White House photo by Joyce Boghosian

President Bush presents the President's Volunteer Service Award to Army Reserve spouse Dawnle Scheetz from Sharon, Pennsylvania, before the White House celebration of Military Spouse Day on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. In 2006, Scheetz's husband, Major Larry Scheetz, was deployed to Iraq for a year with the 942nd Quartermaster Detachment from Fort Belvoir, Virginia. During this time she created Operation School House to provide school supplies, clothing, and toys for Iraqi children. Over an eight-month span, Scheetz collected five tons of supplies, which were packaged and shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan and distributed by the troops as gifts from American children. In addition, she is a volunteer with the Mercer County Juvenile Community Court, a diversionary program composed of volunteers who determine appropriate consequences, including community service, tutoring, and substance abuse monitoring, for low-level first-time youth offenders.

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