WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Marine Corps on Tuesday apologized for incorrectly mailing Purple Heart Christmas tree ornaments to about 1,150 defunct Marines and sailors.
The gold ornaments, with an picture of a Purple Heart in a center, were partial of a package from the Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment that enclosed a minute to a defunct target from a regiment's autocratic officer as good as a flyer with information about an jaunty reconditioning program.
The packages were addressed to a defunct troops.
The Corps pronounced it schooled of a blunder when family members called Monday evening.
"There are no difference to demonstrate how really contemptible we are for a harm such a mistake has caused a families of a depressed warriors," pronounced Col. John L. Mayer, a regiment's autocratic officer. "There is no forgive for because this happened."
A mouthpiece for a regiment, Capt. Jill L. Wolf, pronounced in an talk that by Tuesday 35 families who perceived a packages had called to indicate out a error. She pronounced Mayer has begun job them to apologize. Letters of reparation will be sent to all families of a defunct who were enclosed in a mailing.
The tree ornaments were donated by an vague free classification and were ostensible to go to vital Marines who had perceived a Purple Heart given 9/11, as good as sailors who were bleeding while trustworthy to or portion in support of Marine Corps units. Nearly 8,000 were mailed, as intended, to vital recipients.
Wolf pronounced this is a third year a ornaments have been mailed to Purple Heart recipients. There were no famous mailing errors in 2009 or 2010, she said.
The Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment, headquartered during Quantico, Va., provides non-medical caring to fight and non-combat wounded, ill and harmed Marines, as good as sailors in support of Marine units. The idea is to assistance them lapse to troops avocation or to transition to municipal life.
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