Bush grandchildren help make care packages for troops

Members of the Bush family were among 20 volunteers in Florida who helped assemble care packages for deployed U.S. troops, according to local news outlets.

Three of former President George H.W. Bush’s grandchild — Pierce, Ashley and Lauren — and their mother, Sharon Bush, were volunteering Christmas Eve day with Forgotten Soldiers Outreach Inc., a Lake Worth, Fla., nonprofit, the Palm Beach Post reported.

{mosads}”I asked him once and he said every day he thought about when he fell into the ocean and lost two of his colleagues in World War II,” Ashley Bush told local TV station WPTV, referring to George H.W. Bush. “He taught us about humility and serving others.”

Sharon Bush was married to George H.W. and Barbara Bush’s son Neil until 2003.

The care packages, which included food, toiletries and letters from students across the country, were also co-sponsored by the Bush family, Lynelle Chauncey Zelnar, executive director of Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, told the Palm Beach Post.

“With President Bush recently dying, who is an icon and served our country, having the Bush family represented and joining our efforts shows me that our efforts are not going unnoticed,” Zelnar said, according to the newspaper.

Former President George H.W. Bush died Nov. 30 at age 94. After lying in state at the U.S. Capitol, a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral and a funeral at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, Bush was buried behind the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum alongside his wife Barbara and their daughter Robin.