Final Debrief

Once again I'd like to thank all those who participated and all those who sent positive thoughts and prayers to this wonderful project we held, and we will hold once again this year in 10 short months.

 

Many of you did not win any prizes, but please keep in mind, the grand prize was helping the Bassett Family to have a wonderful memorable Christmas. So we all won in that regard! Thank you to all who participated!

To view our project please visit this link Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays Project - 2018

Raffle River hosted our raffle, you can see the total contributions by you, our supporters at Raffle River Patriot Woodworker Portal

 

Total Raffle Proceeds and Expenditures

Gross	$2205.00
Service fees	$77.24
PayPal fees	$9.05
USPS fee	$36.96
Gifts	$1385.87
Check to Bassett	$750.00
Balance	$54.12

 

Fees Definitions

• Gross - Total contributions by you, our generous contributors
• Service fees - Fees charged by raffle system per transaction, for example, a $50.00 raffle ticket purchase had a $1.75 service fee attached. A $5.00 raffle ticket purchase had a $0.55 service fee attached.
• PayPal fees - Several raffle purchases were sent to us in proxy via PayPal, these fees are charges PayPal charged those transactions.
• USPS fee - Shipping charges for items sent via USPS from our home.
• Gifts - The amount that was spent for the Bassett family.
• Check to Bassett - The remainder of the funds in the coffers sent to the Bassett Family.
• Balance - Funds Remaining We have an excess of $54.12

 

Gifts and Disbursements

General children's gifts for Dalen and Aiden, ($1385.87) see screen shots.

A check in the amount of ($750.00) sent via PayPal to Bassett Family.

A payment via PayPal ($200.00) for the Bassett Christmas dinner.

If anyone is very curious of the Raffle River Fees and PayPal fees, please contact me in a private message and I'll do my best to disclose the fees via personal email.

 

Questions?

If anyone has any questions at all regarding this project, and how your proceeds were used, please do not hesitate to PM me or one of our admins, or you can email me at administrator@thepatriotwoodworker.com.

To the best of my ability I have shown a full disclosure in this topic, if you see any errors or accidental omissions please feel free to call us out here by replying to this topic. I am not perfect, so I may have missed something.

 

Screen shots of Dalen and Aiden's gifts that you, our generous donors purchased the children.

Gifts not shown below were purchased outside of Amazon such as:

• Online Video Game Cards ($60.00) from "Game Stop"
• A Walmart Gift Card ($200.00) for Christmas dinner
• Payment via PayPal ($750.00) for the Bassett's
• Prices of gifts below do not reflect shipping and taxes, nor gift wrapping fees charged by Amazon. We have Amazon Prime which allowed free shipping on most items.
• One particular item (Beatz Headphone) seen below is times 2, $279.95. One pair for each boy. Total $559.90 plus tax.

For the above items or the below items, if you wish to see the receipts please PM me, due to sensitive information I would rather not publish them publicly.

 

 

In closing

We want to thank everyone again for their participation in the 2018 Christmas project, we are very proud of how our Patriot Woodworkers, guests, and sponsors came to the table, and made this all happen.

Please see a few images of the kids with some of their gifts. Michelle Bassett sent us these images to be displayed in our community.

If you have not yet seen the personalized gifts sent to the Bassett's please see this topic at Woodworking and Blanket for the Bassett's.

 

Wounded Warrior Dad Bassett and his two boys Dalen and Aiden Christmas morning, some wild PJ's!

 

Aiden sporting his Adidas sweater

 

Dalen had "What Do You Meme?" on his list, just one, The Patriot Woodworkers got him the whole set. I have no idea what this game is, anyone?

 

Both boys received from you all, several pairs of Levis.

 

Dalen and Aiden both received Amazon gift cards from John and Debra Mordus.

 

Both boys received "Beatz" headphones, they had just "headphones" on their Christmas list, but since I have no idea what's in and what's not, I had my own kids pick these out for the boys, apparently these are all the rave this year for headphones, they are supposed to cancel out all outside noise, and the sound is supposedly spectacular, for the price our Patriot Woodworker's paid for these two sets, the sound better be awesome! My kids assured me they are as awesome as the cost.

 

Aiden sporting his new head phones!

 

The above images are a small representation of what you all paid back to this Warrior Family. From what Mom Bassett told me, they had a wonderful Christmas.

I'd like to thank you all for making this Christmas a wonderful event.

 

Some Quotes from Mom Bassett

The below quotes are from emails we had with Mrs. Bassett, we had over 60 emails together, and there is so much more with her expressing her gratitude, I could flood this page with them.

I made sure that she understood, no thanks was or is ever necessary, we are simply paying back what we owe to her family. Us Americans and much of the world, we owe our freedoms because of men like James Bassett, who answered the call, and paid the price. For those of us sitting at home and enjoying our lifestyle and freedoms to move about and perform our daily routines and rituals, make no mistake, if it wasn't for the men and women of our United States Military, our lives would change in a heartbeat, without our military, we have no protection, without protection, our shores would be over-run by those who would exploit our weakness if we did not have those who serve our nation, standing post with rifle in hand, and willing to do the un-heard of.

Thank you Michelle, James, and boys. Your family is still paying the price.

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John, please pass on our deepest appreciation to all of The Patriot Woodworkers. Your group of Angels went out of their way to show my family so much love and a bounty of blessings. God bless you all and keep you all in his light for a happy and healthy 2019.

Mrs. Bassett

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I can't thank you all enough. You all went above and beyond to bless my family. Everything was so personal and really meant so much to us. Thank you for your amazing hearts.

Mrs. Bassett

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The Patriot Woodworker's beyond spoiled them! We have about 15 amazon gift bags under the tree! Thank you all so very very much! You have truly blessed us so much!

Mrs. Bassett

 

Thank-you John for the disclosure and most of all thanks to you and your family for all the time, energy, and compassion you contribute behind the scene to allow us to give back. Without The Patriot Woodworker, this would not be possible. It is an honor and a blessing to be a small part of a group with such genuine compassion for our unsung heroes. May God Bless America, our military men, women and their families and the Bassett family in 2019.

You did good Oh Great Leader.  Give yourself a pat on the back.

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to help with your favorite project,

It was the best cause a person could dream for.

Herb

that came around well..

10 hours ago, honesttjohn said:

You did good Oh Great Leader.  Give yourself a pat on the back.

...as always.  You, your wife, and even your kids deserve the biggest pats. You are the ones that put in all of the work, coordination, and effort to collect, order, and send them their Christmas. Without you, all of the funds would be useless.

 

Thanks, again, Morris family.

I was glad to be part of this operation.  A special thanks to those who gave their time to make it happen.  A feel good win for the Christmas Season.

Only one question and I think you're working on the answer.   Thank you. 

Thank you Morris family, for all you did and continue to do. 

Kinda an illustration of why this group is so important to me. Thank you to all for your generosity, time and effort to help others, and be an example of the good side of humanity. 

Dunno 'bout everbuddy else. I's just in it for the prizes. Truthfully, the best prize was the big smiles on the Basset's faces.

I second what Gene just said. The expressions on those guys face tells it all.

Herb