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Helping deployed troops is a family affairI wondered if your readers would be interested in what my family and friends are doing for the men and women in Iraq?Last spring, when I was visiting my daughter, Kathy Raney, she told me how a soldier from Rose Hill had put a letter in the paper saying that he hopes we don't forget about them while they’re over there. She began sending packages to him. He’s a 20-year veteran and when he gets a package he shares it with the men and women that don’t get mail. I got his address and began sending him packages. Then my son, Kevin Axelson, Russell, began sending packages also. My sister, Joan Usher in Salma, got in*'^things. TheyendedTip,wlth'23TT(5X5sr?Cn.-“-othersistenJudy HillmanrOlathe;- also ~ has started sending boxes, so it has truly became ”a family affair.”My Sunday school class at First Baptist in Plainville also has sent boxes and my friend Jean Blayer is also sending package.Don says he feels like Bob Hope when he shares these packages. It has been very rewarding.It costs $8.10 to send each box so anyone caring to give postage would be welcomed.Thought this would be of interest to your readers.Wendella Axelson Natoma
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The Hays Daily News
Hays, Kansas, US
Thu, Nov 30, 2006
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