SAN DIEGO -- Jeff Seymour showed 10News what's left of the donations meant for U.S. troops in Iraq.

"People really care, and they want to do the right thing," said Seymour.

Seymour started with just a few magazines, but over the years his donations grew to encompass personal hygiene products and even DVD players.

"It started with one arm-load, to two arm-loads, and then a dolly-load to a truck trailer-load," said Seymour.

For the last three years, Seymour brought his items to the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar. He assumed the donations would be headed to troops in Iraq.

Instead, some of Seymour's donations ended up in the Miramar Landfill, plowed under.

"It's really disheartening," Seymour told 10News.

Seymour's mission ended a couple of months ago, around Christmas. He had dropped off a large load of donations, but got a few more items the next day. He drove back to MCAS Miramar with the last-minute items.

"I walked in and saw the stuff was gone. I asked a Marine where the stuff was at," said Seymour.

At first, Seymour claimed the Marine said everything had been shipped, but he did not believe it.

"When I said I would take it to the General, the Marine started to apologize over and over," said Seymour.

Seymour said something told him to check with the Miramar Landfill.

Sure enough, an employee there told him he had seen several Marines dumping loads of boxed donations -- with the labels Seymour used -- late last summer.

To this day, Seymour has never received an explanation or an apology from the Marines.

In a recent story in the City Beat newspaper, Maj. Manuel Delarosa claimed that the magazines were "old and yellowed," that the pallets "were dumped in error by an over-eager Marine" and "that there just was not enough room on military cargo flights."

10News received a statement from 2nd Lt. Gregory A Wolf of the Marines. He said the donation dumping "… is a regrettable yet isolated incident. In no way does it reflect on the Marine Corps' gratitude to the American public for their continued support during a time of war."

Wolf said the command is looking into the incident and is working to make sure the remaining donations are put to good use.