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- [Interviewer] One more time, your name and rank again.

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- Sergeant Luis Cardona.
- [Interviewer] And where are you from?

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- Miami, Florida.

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- [Interviewer] And what unit are you with?
- I'm with 6th Communications Battalion, Brooklyn, New York.

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- [Interviewer] And your job?
- I'm I&I Staff, inspector instructor.

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- [Interviewer] Okay, tell me a little bit about 
what you guys are doing in Times Square.

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- We're in Times Square today as a centralized location

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to pick up toys for Toys for Tots.

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There's other various pickups going on
throughout the city throughout the day.

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We're here as a centralized location to 
pick up toys, collect the toys from those

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people and take them back to our warehouse.

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- [Interviewer] What is the Toys for Tots program?

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- The Toys for Tots program is a program

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run during the holidays to provide toys

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to families in need so that every child

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can have a holiday, a Christmas.

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- [Interviewer[ Have you been doing the
Toys for Tots program for a couple years now?

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- I've been doing it, this is my fourth Toys for Tots year doing it.

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- [Interviewer] What's it like being a 
Marine to be a part of this program?

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- As a Marine being part of the 
program, it's good, giving back to

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the community that you live in, 
seeing the kids light up when you actually

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deliver the toys to them, it's a good feeling.

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- [Interviewer] Have you been out and 
actually delivered some of the toys?

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- I have not, but I have worked with the NYPD

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who deliver the toys with them

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and they said that the kids always enjoy it.

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- [Interviewer] And how long are you 
going to be in Times Square today?

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- I'll be here all day collecting toys

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throughout the day, picking up, dropping off as well.

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And that's pretty much it.

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- [Interviewer] What's the best part about...

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Were you at Headquarters last year doing this?

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- No, I wasn't.

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- [Interviewer] So far, just having this 
at Central Park and Times Square,

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have you had a reaction from people walking by?

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- We have, a lot of people ask to take pictures.

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Ask to look around, see what it looks like.

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A lot of them have never seen a 7-ton before.

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So we've gotten definitely a big reaction

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just being here for a couple of hours so far.

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- [Interviewer] One more time, 
give me your first and last name.

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- Luis Cardona.
- [Interviewer] Spell your last name for me.

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- C-A-R-D-O-N-A.

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- [Interviewer] You said you're from-
- Miami, Florida.