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Article: Shipments of Comfort; Oklahoma City Sends 100,000 Teddy Bears and Children's Letters to Schools
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- The Washington Post
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- October 4, 2001
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In ordinary times, children hold them at night for security, to
keep away bad dreams. But when a terrorist bomb made the bad dreams
real six years ago, the children of Oklahoma City held them tighter
and found even greater comfort in them.
Now, they are trying to help thousands of other youngsters sleep
more peacefully after experiencing deadly terror. Teddy bears --
100,000 of them -- are being sent from Oklahoma City to hundreds of
schools in the Washington area, New York and New Jersey to help them
weather the trauma of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Along with the bears is a book about the Oklahoma City bombing, as
well as letters from children offering condolences and love: "Hug
this bear and ...