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Sam Welden gave the Grandview group a military-style acronym, "Operation BRAT,
Sam Welden gave the Grandview group a military-style acronym,
"Operation BRAT, (EXCERPT) Soldier meets his Boca 'Angel Team', by Lona O'Connor, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 18, 2004 BOCA RATON -- Army Staff Sgt. Sam Welden, just back from Iraq, got a family homecoming celebration Wednesday night. But it was in a town he'd never been to and with people he had never met. Welden, 31, a tank commander whose unit was one of the first to roll into Iraq when the war began a year ago, was seeing for the first time his adopted "family," which consists of students, teachers and families from Grandview Preparatory School in Boca Raton. The connection began last year in Nickerson, Kan., home of Welden's best friend, Barry Stockington, who started a letter-writing campaign there to keep up his friend's morale. Then he called his aunt, Connie Tishman, a Boca Raton chiropractor, who in turn inspired her daughter. In October, eighth-grader Marisa Tishman, 13, organized a campaign at Grandview to send e-mails and c... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 18 Mar 2004, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localne...7d0db10a1.html --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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