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Article: HOME-FRONT BACKING RED CROSS COLLECTING GIFTS FOR SERVICE MEMBERS IN IRAQ.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2003
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Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer
PALMDALE - Hand sanitizer bottles, chewing gum packs, crackers- and-peanut butter packets and paperback novels are piling up at the Antelope Valley Red Cross office, destined for troops overseas.
Antelope Valley residents are donating snacks, toiletries and gifts for the military personnel in Iraq under a weeklong local Red Cross collection drive.
``Some of them are people who have family members (in the military) and some do not. They're just caring people,'' Red Cross executive director Fran Stewart said of the donors. ``I think we are all looking for an outlet for our emotions.''
The ...