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+date: '2024-12-13'
+modified_time: 2024-12-13 12:14:54-05:00
+published_time: 2024-12-13 12:14:53-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/12/13/remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-by-first-lady-jill-biden-at-a-toys-for-tots-event-with-military-families-2/
+tags: speeches-remarks
+title: "Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill\_Biden at a Toys for Tots\
+  \ Event with Military\_Families"
+---
+
+The White House
+
+Thank you, Lieutenant General Anderson. Joe and I are so grateful to you
+and Lieutenant General Laster for your decades of service and
+leadership. Both of you have built inspiring careers guiding troops and
+giving back to our communities alongside your amazing Toys for Tots
+team.
+
+To the senior spouses who are with us today: through your care and
+resolve, you lift up all of our military families. Your service doesn’t
+go unnoticed by the Commander-in-Chief. Thank you.
+
+Welcome to the White House!
+
+The festive music we’ve heard today is performed by the President’s Own
+Marine Band. Joe and I are grateful to them and to their families for
+their service, and for filling the White House with talent and grace.
+
+Each year, we decorate this house for the holidays—and I’m so glad that
+all of you can be part of the magic.
+
+Did you see the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room?
+
+This season can be filled with excitement and wonder—with colorful
+lights and hot chocolate and presents. But if you only remember one
+thing from the holidays, after all the wrapping paper is cleaned up, let
+it be this: you are loved.
+
+There are so many people who care about you—from your family and
+friends, to your teachers and classmates, to the President and me.
+
+And the best thing we can do with that love is to let it overflow—to
+share it with others who might really need it.
+
+I know that you already do this in so many ways: by caring for your
+siblings and cousins, by being a friend to a kid at school who feels
+lonely, and you’re doing it today, by helping more children experience
+the joy of the holidays.
+
+You’re also part of a special group of kids who help everyone in our
+nation, through your families’ military service.
+
+And I want to thank your parents—for your dedication to this country,
+for raising such wonderful kids, and for bringing delight to children
+across the nation who will have these gifts under their tree this year.
+
+The President and I are grateful, and we’re honored to open the White
+House to all of you.
+
+Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
+
+And now, let’s get to sorting!
+
+\###