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03-25-2003, 12:11 AM
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>Americans Support Deployed Troops
Sunday, March 23, 2003
By Liza Porteus
NEW YORK — Individual Americans around the country are thinking of creative ways to show U.S. troops abroad that they have the support of their country while the United States is at war with Iraq.
National Guard troops from Rhode Island who have been deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom are getting little pieces of home in the mail.
About two weeks before Christmas, Warwick Veterans Memorial High School junior Brandie Cambio decided to round up some fellow students to send postcards adorned with Rhode Island scenery to the state's 800-plus National Guardsmen deployed.
Brandie's brother, a Marine, was deployed to Somalia and Kuwait a few years ago. She got the idea by watching a news report telling of a class of young children writing letters to troops abroad.
"I was saying if a little class could do it, imagine if a school could do it," Brandie told Foxnews.com.
Large companies such as Microsoft have even called asking to participate (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81909,00.html )</span>
Sunday, March 23, 2003
By Liza Porteus
NEW YORK — Individual Americans around the country are thinking of creative ways to show U.S. troops abroad that they have the support of their country while the United States is at war with Iraq.
National Guard troops from Rhode Island who have been deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom are getting little pieces of home in the mail.
About two weeks before Christmas, Warwick Veterans Memorial High School junior Brandie Cambio decided to round up some fellow students to send postcards adorned with Rhode Island scenery to the state's 800-plus National Guardsmen deployed.
Brandie's brother, a Marine, was deployed to Somalia and Kuwait a few years ago. She got the idea by watching a news report telling of a class of young children writing letters to troops abroad.
"I was saying if a little class could do it, imagine if a school could do it," Brandie told Foxnews.com.
Large companies such as Microsoft have even called asking to participate (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81909,00.html )</span>