Posted on 06/02/2011 5:33:48 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 1, 2011) — Fort Leonard Wood personnel sent several 3 1/2-ton trucks packed full of donated items to Joplin last week to help local tornado victims. Personnel at the post, which was hit by an EF-3 tornado just five months ago in which 47 homes were destroyed and 97 damaged, started collecting donated items the day after the tornado hit Joplin. Lynn Morgan, Fort Leonard Wood Army Community Services director, said that after the tornado struck Fort Leonard Wood, donations poured in from all over the country and the magnitude of the amount of items received was unbelievable. Now, said J.P. Flores, donation drop-off coordinator for ACS, it’s Fort Leonard Wood’s turn to repay the favor.
(Excerpt) Read more at pulaskicountydaily.com ...
“...donations poured in from all over the country”
What? No help whatsoever from all our ‘friends’ from around the world, to whom WE dole out money to annually?
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