with christmas just three weeks away laura landermangarber and her team are hard at work trying to make sure that they bring holiday smiles to us troops overseas and across the nation this is like my santas workshop landermangarber said of her home to abc affiliate wmurtv in manchester new hampshire for 16 years the hollis new hampshire woman has been collecting letters and care packages from across the us and sending them out to the military at first she got her family members to send the holiday cards more mom edits christmas card photo to include military husband serving overseas two years ago she set a goal of 5000 cards and mailed them out to servicemembers aboard an aircraft carrier we wanna give to our warriorswho are far away from home she said laura landermangarber has been collecting and sending holiday cards to troops in the us and overseas for 16 years this year she is sending more than 160000 wmur landermangarber eventually formed the nonprofit holiday cards 4 our military nh challenge to help with postage and enlisted family friends and even neighbors to help with the huge holiday effort many of the letters and notes to the servicemembers begin with dear warrior and include handwritten notes and homemade illustrations from children across the nation landermangarber even gotten letters from schoolchildren as far away as hawaii more the story of the very 1st christmas card in 2019 50000 cards were mailed out this year landermangarbers challenge reached all 50 states she even got cards from some of the 2020 democratic presidential candidates including bernie sanders and elizabeth warren on monday landermangarber posted to her facebook group that she had received 160000plus holiday cards laura landermangarber has been collecting and sending holiday cards to troops in the us and overseas for 16 years this year she is sending more than 160000 wmur by wednesday the cards and holiday candy had begun arriving to troops overseas and in the us the photographs she shared in her facebook group captured just how special the packages made the servicemembers feel landermangarber said it was those photographs and expressions of gratitude that kept her sending cards year after year new hampshire were fierce were small in size but were so large in heart she told wmurtv