In the News Through the Years at MarineParents.com
This is an assortment of articles that have been done on the organization and our outreach programs. Some of the older links, back to 2003, are no longer functioning.
KOMU NBC News
April 1, 2016 Issue: Click here to read more...
KMIZ ABC News
April 1, 2016 Issue: Click here to read more...
KOMU NBC News
October, 2015 Issue: Click here to read more...
KOMU NBC News
September, 2014 Issue: Click here to read more...
Columbia Missourian
September, 2014 Issue: Click here to read more...
ConnectMidMissouri.com
September, 2014 Issue: Click here to read more...
Columbia Access Television
November, 2013 Issue: To view the segment click here, select the show "Making a Difference" from the drop-down menu, and choose the November, 2013 option.
Columbia Daily Tribune
October, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
Connect Mid-Missouri
October, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
Columbia Daily Tribune
October, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
KOMU 8 NBC News
October, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
Leatherneck Magazine
September, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
Armed Forces Radio Network
August, 2013 Issue: Click here to read more...
Examiner.com
July, 2012 Issue: Click here to read more...
Vox Magazine
April, 2012 Issue: Click here to read more...
ConnectMidMissouri.com
March, 2012 Issue: Click here to read more...
KOMU NBC News
September, 2011 Issue: Click here to read more...
Ridgewood-GlenRock Patch
September, 2011 Issue: Click here to read more...
IslandPacket.com
January, 2011 Issue: Click here to read more...
Bluffton Today
January, 2011 Issue: Click here to read more...
KWTX.com
Noveember, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Daily Herald
Noveember, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Mankato Free Press
October, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Fox News
August, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Associated Press
August, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
U-T San Diego
August, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
The Tennessean
July, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
Marine Corps Times
February, 2010 Issue: Click here to read more...
News-Leader.com
October, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
WHTM.com
September, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
ENCToday.com
September, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
OC Register
August, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
SoMdNews.com
August, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
KTVI-FOX2Now.com
July, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
Hickory Record
May, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
Marines.Mil
April, 2009 Issue: Click here to read more...
Inside Columbia Magazine
April, 2009 Issue: Click to read PDF Version
The Fox Report with Shepard Smith
Wednesday, December 20, 2006: FOX News Correspondent Jeff Goldblatt interviews with Tracy Della Vecchia, founder of MarineParents.com and Marine Parent member Larry Sharp. For more information, Click here to read more...
Columbia Daily Tribune: Home front packages with care
Published Sunday, December 10, 2006 By SARA SEMELKA of the Tribune’s staff. A story of the volunteer families shipping care packages for The Care Package Project™ from MarineParents.com. Click here to read more...
St. Petersburg Times: On the Homefront segment
Published November 19, 2006, A club they'd love to leave By Brady Dennis, Times Staff Writer, features Dick Linn, one of our volunteers and Gold Star Father sharing the importance of connecting and sharing with other Gold Star Marine Corps Families on MarineParents.com. Click here to read more....
Wisconsin State Journal: Team Marine Parents
Published November 13, 2006 By Gena Kittner. Catching Up: Iraq war veteran marks third marathon finish. Marine Neil Schalk, an Iraq War Veteran and purple heart recipient finishes the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC to raise funds for his comrades through The Care Package Project™ for MarineParents.com. Click for story.
Marines Recalled After Leaving Military
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer. Click here to read more...
The Today Show
Thursday, August 18, 2005: Some of Gold Star Marine Corps Family members appeared on The Today Show for a segment discussing Cindy Sheehan.
NPR, Day to Day with Mike Pesca
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 with Tracy Della Vecchia, Founder of MarineParents.com, Inc. on the military families' reactions to Cindy Sheehan. Click here for taped broadcast
CNN with Anderson Cooper
Monday, August 15, 2005, Tina Lucero, Gold Star Mom and member of the MarineParents.com web site appears with Anderson Cooper on 360, CNN.
CNN Headline News
Friday, August 12, 2005, MarineParents.com web site appears on the "Web Worthy" segment of CNN Headline News.
CNN with Wolf Blitzer
Friday, August 12, 2005, MarineParents.com member and Gold Star Mom, Georgette Frank, on CNN with Wolf Blitzer Click here for more information...
Radio Free Europe
Thursday, August 11, 2005, MarineParents.com founder Tracy Della Vecchia talks with Radio Free Europe about Cindy Sheehan's actions to speak with President George W. Bush at the Crawford Ranch in Texas. Click here to read more...
CNN
Saturday, August 6, 2005, MarineParents.com and founder Tracy Della Vecchia on CNN during the 6:00 p.m. broadcast (Eastern Time). Click here for more information and transcript...
NBC Nightly News
Wednesday, July 27, 2005, MarineParents.com and founder Tracy Della Vecchia on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Click here for more information ~ Click here to read more...
FOXNews.com: Not Your Daddy's Morse Code
June 6, 2005 Fox News Story by Molly Bernhart.Click here to read more....
Fox News
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 MarineParents.com founder Tracy Della Vecchia on Fox News, and a subsequent article written for Fox News Online. Click here for online version...
CNN Sunday Morning
Sunday, May 29, 2005 MarineParents.com founder, Tracy Della Vecchia, on CNN Sunday Morning.
The New York Times Magazine
Sunday, May 29, 2005 MarineParents.com and Founder Tracy Della Vecchia and member Georgette Frank are the cover story for The New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article called "A Mother's War" by Cynthia Gorney. Click for NY Times Story | Click for free audio/video preview
PDF Version of NY Times Article (no photos)
CBS Sunday Morning
Mother's Day, 2005, founder Tracy Della Vecchia working on the Care Packet Project™, and member Georgette Frank featured on CBS Sunday Morning.
The Today Show
Christmas Day, 2005: Several families of Marines from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment state appear on The Today Show, as a family that met on the web site MarineParents.com. Their sons were all stationed together as the 1/8 in Fallujah, Iraq in the winter of 2004. After meeting on the web site message boards, they realized they were within a 70 mile radius of each other.
December 7, 2004: 
President Bush Awards Our Volunteer Katia
President George W. Bush presented the President's Volunteer Service Award to Kathryn Ostapuk when he arrived in Miramar, California on Tuesday, December 7, 2004. Ostapuk, 24, is an active volunteer with MarineParents.com. PDF of White House press release | The President's Schedule | Story 1 | Story 2 | Story 3 w/ photos. Click photo to enlarge.
CBS Evening News on Tuesday, November 9, 2004, featured MarineParents.com volunteer, Diane De Paolo.
April 11, 2004, Tracy Della Vecchia appeared on Fox News with Geraldo Rivera.
Tracy Della Vecchia and several parents from the web site were interviewed by Ari Shapiro of NPR (National Public Radio) regarding reactions to Saddam's capture for the December 15 airing of "Morning Edition". Visit this link to hear the audio in full:
NPR Morning Edition: Military Families Cheer Saddam's Capture
MarineParents.com was interviewed on December 14 regarding Saddam's capture by the BBC out of London.
MarineParents.com was featured on CNN International with Richard Quest out of London on July 9, 2003.
Founder flew to Atlanta for MarineParents.com to be featured on CNN Headline News with Erica Hill of Hotwired on Friday, April 11, 2003. They aired two interviews, 8:45 p.m. & 9:45 p.m. Eastern time. We've also been on local ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates as well as sister stations in the Midwest.
We've been on numerous radio stations around the world including the BBC broadcasting out of Washington DC, as well as radio stations in New Zealand and Australia. Wendy Kaufman of NPR (National Public Radio) did a story that aired on "All Things Considered" on the afternoon of Monday, April 7, 2003. To hear the national NPR Radio Broadcast: click here or visit www.npr.org or visit the page that features the article by clicking here.
Another NPR story that references several MarineParents.com web site parents and Marines: NPR's Wendy Kaufman talks to the parents of some of the U.S. Marines who've been involved in the fighting in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Jeremy Whitworth called his folks on the phone Wednesday and told them to look for him in the television news coverage of the Baghdad celebrations. Click here to hear the file...
Here's a local NPR interview with Tracy Della Vecchia for the www.MarineParents.com web site. Very candid...it's a large file and you'll need Real Player or some type of software that will play audio .ram files. Click for Local NPR Interview with MarineParents.com.
July 28, 2003: The BBC out of the UK has talked with us several times over the course of the last week. We've been featured on "The World Today" out of London, the "Live Five" morning show as well as a couple other programs. They have a great deal of interest in how we as families are holding up with the challenges still being faced by our Marines in Iraq, as well as what we do to keep this new online community functioning and providing services to Marine Corps families.
July 31, 2003: The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) did a live broadcast for their evening news with Tracy Della Vecchia of MarineParents.com. The interview included a gentleman originally from Iraq, that now lives in the UK, and his perspective of the military presence post his recent 3-week visit to Iraq.
Here are some television broadcasts as well as printed newspaper articles about the MarineParents.com web site as well as how parents, wives, and family are sharing and learning from each other online.
- KMIZ 17, ABC
Military Mother Honored
Posted Saturday, June 28, 2003 - Columbia Daily Tribune
Web site creator gets nominated for honor
Published Saturday, June 28, 2003 - KMIZ 17, ABC
Troops Abroad Still Need Help
Posted Friday, June 27, 2003 - USA Today
'Marine Mom' brings families of servicemen together online
Posted 3/25/2003 12:50 PM - Columbia Missourian
Victory in Baghdad
Printed April 10, 2003 - Denver Post
Comforts from home
Article Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 12:00:00 AM MST - Columbia Missourian
My son the Marine: Marine moms go online to network and learn
Printed March 7, 2003 - LA Daily News
Shipping tips to military members
Article Published: Monday, March 17, 2003 - 11:00:00 PM PST - Columbia Daily Tribune
Local mom of Marine turns to Web for comfort
Published Monday, March 24, 2003 - Washington Post
E-mail From the Front
Thursday, March 27, 2003; 9:45 AM - The Kansas City Channel
- The Pilot Online
Tips for shipping to troops in the Middle East
Printed March 16, 2003 - KansasCity.com
- SE Missourian
Web offers comfort to Marine mom - Forth Worth News: Star Telegram
Web brings hope to soldiers' families
Posted on Wed, Apr. 16, 2003 - Jefferson City News Tribune
Mid-Missouri Marine mom finds comfort on the Web
Printed Saturday, March 29, 2003 - Record.Net
Proud moms also deal with guilt
Published Monday, April 14, 2003 - Atlantic Ville News
Worried yet proud, families wait, watch and pray
Published April 11, 2003 - >Star Tribune
Parents of deployed wait anxiously
Printed Casper, Wyoming - Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - New York Time
The News from Home, Sealed With a Click
Printed April 24, 2003, Thursday - The Washington Post
Comrades in One Big Worried Family
Printed Tuesday, April 29, 2003; Page B01 - Eagle Gazette: Lancaster, Ohio
Local Marine to return home
Printed Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH
Zanesville mom awaits her son's return from Iraq
Printed Friday, May 2, 2003 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Reports from the front create favor and fear
Posted on Fri, Apr. 11, 2003 - The Mercury News, Bay Area, CA
Embedded Reporters Help Military Families
Posted on Thu, Apr. 03, 2003 - Columbia Daily Tribune
Anti-war march a mix of faith and resignation
Published Sunday, March 16, 2003 - Columbia Daily Tribune
Thousands rally for troops at Capitol
Published Sunday, March 23, 2003 - Columbia Missourian
LETTERS TO HOME: Derrick Jensen
Published March 9, 2003
