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Greeters Give Troops a Star-Studded Sendoff and Welcome Home

by: Pat Remick, from: AARP Bulletin, March 1, 2010

They’re small tokens—a homemade hat and an embroidered star from a retired flag—that rest on each passenger seat aboard the chartered flights that carry troops to deployments in Iraq or Afghanistan. They represent a little piece of home that the servicemen and -women get to take with them from a hearty group of New Hampshire volunteers. … Back to Article

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