MilVet, a nonprofit organization specializing in sending care packages to deployed U.S. military troops, honored their many volunteers and a special Gold Star mother of a Marine who died in Afghanistan last year in a Dec. 7th event.The special event, culminating with a monthly deployed troop care packaging night, was held at the Wildomar Community Room at 34864 Monte Vista Drive in Wildomar with nearly 100 attending.Honored that evening was Shana Chappell, the Gold Star mother of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui. On Aug. 26. 2021, he was one of 13 Marines killed, as well as many civilians killed or injured, when a terrorist set off a bomb at the Kabul Airport. Chappell was accompanied to the event by active Marines Max Herrera Garcia and Todeo Guerrero who were at the airport
