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  • Adopt-A-Soldier Web Site Rapidly Gains Popularity: Program started by wife of sergeant in Mideast

    03/10/2003 11:25:19 AM PST · by Stand Watch Listen · 10 replies · 485+ views
    Baltimore Sun | March 9, 2003 | AP
    <p>FORT BENNING, Ga. - Pamela Bates worried about getting depressed after her husband shipped out to Kuwait for the possible war with Iraq.</p> <p>Her solution was a project that keeps her busy 16 hours a day and lifts the spirits of thousands of soldiers living in tent cities in the Kuwaiti desert.</p> <p>Her Adopt-A-Soldier Web site - Hugs to Kuwait - was first intended to serve only members of her husband's unit, the 1st Battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment from Fort Benning.</p>