Santina Flynn was a loving wife to her husband, Steve, a devoted American citizen, and a military mother with a generous heart. Before 2007, though, Santina never dreamed she would also become the founder of a nonprofit: Cookies for the Troops.
Love in Each Cookie
When Santina’s son, Justin, a small caliber ammunition quality manager with the Department of Defense, was deployed in Iraq, she asked him an innocent question that would change both of their lives. Had everyone in Justin’s deployment received care packages or letters in the mail?When Justin replied that many service members hadn’t, Santina knew she had to do something. “That was just in her nature,” Justin, now 37, told The Epoch Times.