BY Zak Failla DAILY NEWS WRITER
Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are anxiously awaiting a very special delivery on July 4th – thousands of pizzas.
Troops will feast on 28,000 pizzas from UNO Chicago Grill that were shipped from JFK Airport for Operation Pizza Surge last week.
"It’s difficult to give the soldiers a piece of home from over here," said DHL Express managing director Adrian Watts, which is shipping the pizzas in special containers so they’re fresh when they arrive in the battlefield. "They know how hard people are working to do this – and that’s as important to them as the pizzas."
The idea to ship the pizzas, which will feed about 100,000 soldiers, came from retired Master Sgt. Mark Evans, founder of the nonprofit organization Pizzas 4 Patriots.
"When this idea started, it was just 300 pizzas, then it exploded to 2,000 – and now this," said Evans.
It may be just a pizza, Evans said but "it tells them ‘Thanks for making the world a safer place.’"
USO girls sang as DHL and UNO Chicago Grill employees, along with several local vets, came to pack the pizzas into a cargo plane at JFK on Friday.
"We want the soldiers to know we care," said Frank Guidara, CEO of UNO Chicago Grill and a Vietnam vet.
"Unlike wars past, troops over there know that Americans care about them, and this is just our way of telling them."
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