America the Beautiful

The Freedom Pens Project is an all volunteer effort spearheaded by the members of SawMill Creek Woodworkers Forums to provide custom hand crafted pens to American servicemen and women overseas. SawMill Creek welcomes anyone who is interested in our project and willing to donate their time, talent or services to assist us in our goal of providing beautiful writing instruments for our military stationed in foreign countries who are in harms way. Every Freedom Pen that is delivered will serve as a constant reminder to our troops that they are not alone and will have our continued support until every one of them returns home. I have decided to take on this challenge once again with my eighth-grade students during the entire school year. First trimester students are currently cutting blanks to size and getting them ready for the pen kits which we will have received from Penn State Industries. It is a very worthy cause and the students get to help out the troops overseas. I know that they will perform well and get the job done! The pictures below show student’s efforts to get these pens made to help to accomplish our mission of helping out the troops!!! Each student will be writing a letter to be included with their pen to show their support for freedom. Mr. B has made the first pen check it out in the slide show below. Student pictures are soon to follow so please stay tuned!!!!! Please click on the attachment below to view a copy of the letter which is being sent with every pen made.

The first trimester students have been working hard to complete our first production run of freedom pens to be sent out to the soldiers defending our country. The pen packets will be double checked to make sure that the pens, student letters, and DMS identification tags are complete. The final count of the finished pens that will be packaged and shipped prior to the end of the first trimester will soon be revealed.  The pens will be shipped out and given to troops overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq.I would like to thank Joe Kelly and his wife Irmalene from Louisianna for supplying the pen kits at a reasonable price. They are also generously supplying the red,white,and blue laminated stock for the pen blanks. Mr. Kelley has been a great asset to our freedom pen production. I am hoping to provide over 70 pens to get this school year off to a great start. I wish to thank all my students for their support and effort to help the soldiers overseas. I know firsthand that the soldiers are very appreciative of our efforts. Thanks again and keep up the hard work and great effort!!