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The Fox Report with Shepard Smith
Wednesday, December 20, 2006: FOX News Correspondent Jeff Goldblatt interviews with Tracy Della Vecchia, founder of MarineParents.com and Marine Parent member Larry Sharp. For more information, Click Here...

Columbia Daily Tribune: Home front packages with care
Published Sunday, December 10, 2006 By SARA SEMELKA of the Tribune’s staff. A story of the volunteer families shipping care packages for The Care Package Project™ from MarineParents.com. Click here for story.

St. Petersburg Times: On the Homefront segment
Published November 19, 2006, A club they'd love to leave By Brady Dennis, Times Staff Writer, features Dick Linn, one of our volunteers and Gold Star Father sharing the importance of connecting and sharing with other Gold Star Marine Corps Families on MarineParents.com. Click here for story.

Wisconsin State Journal: Team Marine Parents
Published November 13, 2006 By Gena Kittner. Catching Up: Iraq war veteran marks third marathon finish. Marine Neil Schalk, an Iraq War Veteran and purple heart recipient finishes the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC to raise funds for his comrades through The Care Package Project™ for MarineParents.com. Click for story.

Marines Recalled After Leaving Military
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer. Click Here for Story.

The Today Show
Thursday, August 18, 2005: Some of Gold Star Marine Corps Family members appeared on The Today Show for a segment discussing Cindy Sheehan.

NPR, Day to Day with Mike Pesca
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 with Tracy Della Vecchia, Founder of MarineParents.com, Inc. on the military families' reactions to Cindy Sheehan. Click here for taped broadcast

CNN with Anderson Cooper
Monday, August 15, 2005, Tina Lucero, Gold Star Mom and member of the MarineParents.com web site appears with Anderson Cooper on 360, CNN.

CNN Headline News
Friday, August 12, 2005, MarineParents.com web site appears on the "Web Worthy" segment of CNN Headline News.

CNN with Wolf Blitzer
Friday, August 12, 2005, MarineParents.com member and Gold Star Mom, Georgette Frank, on CNN with Wolf Blitzer Click here for more information

Radio Free Europe
Thursday, August 11, 2005, MarineParents.com founder Tracy Della Vecchia talks with Radio Free Europe about Cindy Sheehan's actions to speak with President George W. Bush at the Crawford Ranch in Texas. Click for article...

CNN
Saturday, August 6, 2005, MarineParents.com and founder Tracy Della Vecchia on CNN during the 6:00 p.m. broadcast (Eastern Time). Click here for more information and transcript

NBC Nightly News
Wednesday, July 27, 2005, MarineParents.com and founder Tracy Della Vecchia on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Click here for more information ~ Click here for story

FOXNews.com: Not Your Daddy's Morse Code
June 6, 2005 Fox News Story by Molly Bernhart.Click Here for Article.

Fox News
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 MarineParents.com founder Tracy Della Vecchia on Fox News, and a subsequent article written for Fox News Online. Click here for online version...

CNN Sunday Morning
Sunday, May 29, 2005 MarineParents.com founder, Tracy Della Vecchia, on CNN Sunday Morning.

The New York Times Magazine
Sunday, May 29, 2005 MarineParents.com and Founder Tracy Della Vecchia and member Georgette Frank are the cover story for The New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article called "A Mother's War" by Cynthia Gorney. Click for NY Times Story | Click for free audio/video preview
PDF Version of NY Times Article (no photos)

CBS Sunday Morning
Mother's Day, 2005, founder Tracy Della Vecchia working on the Care Packet Project™, and member Georgette Frank featured on CBS Sunday Morning.

The Today Show
ChristmasDay, 2005: Several families of Marines from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment state appear on The Today Show, as a family that met on the web site MarineParents.com. Their sons were all stationed together as the 1/8 in Fallujah, Iraq in the winter of 2004. After meeting on the web site message boards, they realized they were within a 70 mile radius of each other.

December 7, 2004: President Bush Awards Our Volunteer Katia
President George W. Bush presented the President's Volunteer Service Award to Kathryn Ostapuk when he arrived in Miramar, California on Tuesday, December 7, 2004. Ostapuk, 24, is an active volunteer with MarineParents.com. PDF of White House press release | The President's Schedule | Story 1 | Story 2 | Story 3 w/ photos. Click photo to enlarge.

CBS Evening News on Tuesday, November 9, 2004, featured MarineParents.com volunteer, Diane De Paolo.

April 11, 2004, Tracy Della Vecchia appeared on Fox News with Geraldo Rivera.

Tracy Della Vecchia and several parents from the web site were interviewed by Ari Shapiro of NPR (National Public Radio) regarding reactions to Saddam's capture for the December 15 airing of "Morning Edition". Visit this link to hear the audio in full:
NPR Morning Edition: Military Families Cheer Saddam's Capture

MarineParents.com was interviewed on December 14 regarding Saddam's capture by the BBC out of London.

MarineParents.com was featured on CNN International with Richard Quest out of London on July 9, 2003.

I flew to Atlanta for MarineParents.com to be featured on CNN Headline News with Erica Hill of Hotwired on Friday, April 11, 2003. They aired two interviews, 8:45 p.m. & 9:45 p.m. Eastern time. We've also been on local ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates as well as sister stations in the Midwest.

We've been on numerous radio stations around the world including the BBC broadcasting out of Washington DC, as well as radio stations in New Zealand and Australia. Wendy Kaufman of NPR (National Public Radio) did a story that aired on "All Things Considered" on the afternoon of Monday, April 7, 2003. To hear the national NPR Radio Broadcast: click here or visit www.npr.org or visit the page that features the article by clicking here.

Another NPR story that references several MarineParents.com web site parents and Marines: NPR's Wendy Kaufman talks to the parents of some of the U.S. Marines who've been involved in the fighting in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Jeremy Whitworth called his folks on the phone Wednesday and told them to look for him in the television news coverage of the Baghdad celebrations. Click here to hear the file...

Here's a local NPR interview with Tracy Della Vecchia for the www.MarineParents.com web site. Very candid...it's a large file and you'll need Real Player or some type of software that will play audio .ram files. Click for Local NPR Interview with MarineParents.com.