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Unaddressed holiday mail to soldiers banned
Hundreds of thousands of cards thanking wounded American troops are not reaching them because mail addressed to any soldier is returned or trashed. The Pentagon and Postal Service bar generic salutations for security and retaliatory concerns, requiring specific recipients.
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Birmingham
Ala
Pentagon
Postal Service
Fenn D'Ottavio
Chicago
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington
Terry Goodman
Goodman
Coal
Kevin Arata
Army Human Resources Command
Candy Roquemore
Austin
Texas
Roquemore
USC
John Hanson
USO
American Red Cross
Defense Department
Jeff Sessions
Rala
U.S. Capitol
Steven Boyd
Sessions