From his time serving as a Masterchief with the US Navy and work with the US Army, Lee McKinney understands the toll deployment takes on military personnel. As an IHRA official at San Antonio Raceway, McKinney knows firsthand the giving heart behind motorsports teams, series and gun companies.<\/p>\n
Several years ago, McKinney began collecting donations of shirts, hoodies, hats, patches and decals, and more to send to servicemen and women serving overseas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The response from the racing community has been overwhelming. McKinney has shipped 652 boxes and counting. He continues to do this year after year and is currently preparing two boxes of items to be shipped out at the end of November.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t thank everyone that\u2019s donated enough,\u201d stated McKinney. \u201cIt means more to the troops than we can really say. With multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I know what it feels like to be deployed. To know that people back home are thinking of them and care enough to send them something, even something small, reminds them why they\u2019re there and keeps their spirits up in the midst of very difficult situations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn the past, we have had an overwhelming response. This year so far, however, the response has been very small. I have only sent out two boxes to the troops compared to the six or seven that I typically send out each Christmas time. But I\u2019m still accepting donations for them now and hope to have topped that number,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Those who wish to donate to McKinney\u2019s project can send souvenirs to:<\/p>\n Lee McKinney \u201cAgain, I want to reiterate how much I appreciate all the support from teams and companies, many of which have given for several years now. Together we are making a difference in the lives of our troops.\u201d<\/p>\n For more information, contact McKinney via email at leevmckinney@ATT.Net or by phone at 210-355-0726.<\/p>\n The post McKinney Connects Racing Community With Military Currently Serving Overseas, Still Accepting Donations<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From his time serving as a Masterchief with the US Navy and work with the US Army, Lee McKinney understands the toll deployment takes on military personnel. As an IHRA official at San Antonio Raceway, McKinney knows firsthand the giving heart behind motorsports teams, series and gun companies. Several years ago, McKinney began collecting donations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91254,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90271\/revisions\/91254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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