Today it’s your turn to brighten someone’s day — to let a soldier in Iraq know that he hasn’t been forgotten by the people back home.
Fain Hamrick, whose son Brad was one of the first 1,000 paratroopers to jump out of a plane into the Iraqi landscape, is a member of the Military Support Group in Cleveland County.
The group meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church.
On a regular basis, the group is asked if they can provide the names of Cleveland County soldiers. Church groups and civic clubs want to put together care packages, but don’t know where to send them.
"We need a place where people can call and leave the addresses," Hamrick said.
For now, military families can leave names and addresses by posting them in the comments section on the "Random Acts of Kindness" blog.
By compiling a list of names, we can help others pass along kindness to the soldiers who are giving up so much of their lives to serve our country.
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Pfc. Skelton
Unit 5928, B. Company
2-325 Air 82nd Airborne Division
Camp Taji, IRAQ
APO AE 09378
Grandson now serving in Iraq:
SPC. Ross, Derek
Unit# 5972
HHT 3-7 CAV
APO AE 09378
Thank you to everyone who has sent in their soldiers' addresses. Here's the list we have so far:
This list was started Sept. 7, 2007
TSGT Bowen, Mitchell
JLTF 1144th
70 MTD USAF
APO AE 09366
Pfc. Skelton
Unit 5928, B. Company
2-325 Air 82nd Airborne Division
Camp Taji, IRAQ
APO AE 09378
SFC Wanda Ross
488th CSC Unit # 6510
APO AE 09375
PFC Clark, Samuel R.
70th EN, HHC
OrgunE
APO AE 09354
SPC. Ross, Derek
Unit# 5972
HHT 3-7 CAV
APO AE 09378
I met Seargent Thorington in Panama in 1990, he is a great person. I am glad he came back safe from Iraq. Hope he reads this comments sometimes. He will remember me, El Lider. God bless him and his family, I still have the picture of his parents, their house and he with the parrot on his head. So long
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