[Kathy in Alaska]

Jenessa Alexis Largent is interviewed by CNN while visiting the Pentagon Aug. 18. Largent was recognized for her efforts in making 36,000 bracelets honoring soldiers fighting the War on Terror. Spc. Bill Putnam

Labor of love swells troop support

By Beau Whittington
August 19, 2003

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2003) -- One 12-year-old’s love for her uncle stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq, has swelled into a ground roots campaign to show support for the troops fighting the War on Terror.

It’s also caused her a lot of work.

In April, Jenessa Alexis Largent, of White Bear Lake, Minn., was thinking a lot about her uncle Sgt. 1st Class Mike Chamorro and decided she wanted to do something special in his honor.

“At first I wanted to wear a yellow hair binder around my wrist to represent the yellow ribbons of the past,” she recalled. She quickly found the binders were too flimsy and looked for a better answer.

She decided to maker herself a bracelet.

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[MoJo2001]

I have to go and pick up my carpet, but I just heard on FNC that the Israeli government has declared an all out war against Hezbollah and Hamas. And the government will be cracking down on the Palestinians. Of course, the usual diplomatic idiots are warning Israel against doing it.

GO ISRAEL GO!!

[Old Sarge]

Now, that's kind of cool.

I'm reading more and more stories like this, of kids/young adults doing "love-of-country/troops" things that their older sibs would retch over.

It almost makes this cranky old sergeant think twice on how less irredeemable today's youth might be...

...until I watch the news...

[Fawnn]

I saw that girl on Leno. Really cute, articulate kid. (So cute in fact that if she weren't doing something to support the military, I bet Hollywood would already have her starring in her own show!)