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Speaker 1: This is a great pleasure to talk to Ellen Caprara.

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Speaker 1: Ellen works with Warrior Foundation Freedom Station to coordinate support

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Speaker 1: services with the Navy Wounded Warrior Program, UH specifically or

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Speaker 1: at least in part of travel services like the home

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Speaker 1: for the Holidays flights, which we absolutely love. Ellen, welcome.

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good? How about yourself? We're terrific things.

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Speaker 1: Can can you help us understand why it's so powerful

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Speaker 1: and important, um to either get the warriors home for

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Speaker 1: the holidays or have family, uh, you know come to

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Speaker 1: their side when necessary. Yeah, absolutely so. This program we especially,

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Speaker 1: you know, love and support and are so happy when

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Speaker 1: this time of the year comes around. You know, these

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Speaker 1: sailors and service members they're going through some of the

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Speaker 1: toughest times of their lives with what they're doing, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of them can't afford to go home or

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just the circumstances aren't right. And to

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Speaker 1: be able to, you know, provide them with that opportunity

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Speaker 1: to fly home for the holidays and to see their

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Speaker 1: families and friends, it's so powerful and so meaningful, and

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Speaker 1: it just you know, it means a lot to them

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Speaker 1: to be able to have that experience and it's it's

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Speaker 1: just again, we love this time of year because we

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Speaker 1: can offer them this and it's just it's wonderful and

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Speaker 1: we we we we love that the Wounded Warrior Foundation

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Speaker 1: Freedom Station provides this for us. And just our sailors

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Speaker 1: are you know, we we get them asking around this

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Speaker 1: time when you know, when the when the when the

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Speaker 1: program starts. So it's it's just it's very impactful and meaningful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've heard the stories over the years when you finally

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Speaker 1: get to go up to you know, a man or

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Speaker 1: a woman and say, hey, you're gonna wake up in

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Speaker 1: your own bed on Christmas. That's pretty awesome. And and you,

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Speaker 1: I know you you generally calculate how much it costs

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Speaker 1: per person, what's like our average. I've always thought this

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Speaker 1: is a good way for people who want to donate

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Speaker 1: to kind of picture where their money is gonna go.

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Speaker 1: How much do how much do I need to donate

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Speaker 1: to make sure somebody can go home for the holidays?

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Speaker 1: Do you? And look in between I mean the flight range,

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Speaker 1: you know, because people fly as close to San you know,

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Speaker 1: the quick flight to you know, from San Diego to

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, but a lot of them have families on

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Speaker 1: the East coast. So you're looking probably about two dred

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Speaker 1: and fifties five D probably per ticket for a round

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Speaker 1: trip ticket. Um, I'm thinking around there. Some might be less,

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Speaker 1: some key a little bit more, but I think that

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good range. Well, and gosh, the returns

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Speaker 1: are I mean invaluable, just you know, to to have

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Speaker 1: the support of family and maybe old bodies around and

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Speaker 1: or my god, when when some of these service members

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Speaker 1: are going through multiple surgeries and rehabs in the rest

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Speaker 1: of it, to have mom and dad come visit or whoever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's gotta you can't put a price on that.

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Speaker 1: You can't put a price on that. And again, they're

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Speaker 1: going through some of the toughest times right now, and

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Speaker 1: to be able to have to see their family over

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Speaker 1: the holidays there, have their family come over the holidays

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Speaker 1: is you know, words don't describe how how important that

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Speaker 1: is to them, especially in their whole healing process as

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Speaker 1: are going through their medical and everything. So it just

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Speaker 1: it is, it is fantastic to be able to provide

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Speaker 1: that opportunity to them. Well, Ellen, we're going to see

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Speaker 1: how much money we can raise and how many tickets

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Speaker 1: we can buy, and how many families we can put

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Speaker 1: back together for the holidays are just when they're needed most.

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Speaker 1: So thanks a million for what you do. Absolutely thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me on Armstrong and Jetty