Group needs help for soldiers' homecoming
13 soldiers from area returning home in November
A local group is seeking help to plan a homecoming for 13 soldiers from the St. Francois County area who will be returning from Iraq sometime in November. An exact time table is not yet available.
Jackie Oder, a spokesperson for the group, explains that the individuals were deployed out of Kansas City with the 110th. They'll be returned to Cape Girardeau, where she said some welcoming activities are occurring, but she would like the soldiers to know their hometowns appreciate them just as much as Cape.
"We're looking for donations so we can put up signs, ribbons and poster boards welcoming them as they travel through here to Cape, and then back again," Oder explained.
She is part of a not-for-profit group, Yellow Ribbons for Deployed soldiers, which was organized to facilitate information and support for the wives of soldiers living in this area. They had the permission of the Family Resource Group out of Kansas City to form.
Oder said the group is not asking for a ceremony here, as there will be ceremonies in plenty in Cape. However, she explains many soldiers believe people in the county are unaware there are still some soldiers from this area serving in Iraq.
She wants to show the individuals that people here not only know, but care.
"Just because there are only 13 of them doesn't mean they don't deserve recognition from their own hometown," Oder said. "They went over there and risked their lives."
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A local group is seeking help to plan a homecoming for 13 soldiers from the St. Francois County area who will be returning from Iraq sometime in November. An exact time table is not yet available.
Jackie Oder, a spokesperson for the group, explains that the individuals were deployed out of Kansas City with the 110th. They'll be returned to Cape Girardeau, where she said some welcoming activities are occurring, but she would like the soldiers to know their hometowns appreciate them just as much as Cape.
"We're looking for donations so we can put up signs, ribbons and poster boards welcoming them as they travel through here to Cape, and then back again," Oder explained.
She is part of a not-for-profit group, Yellow Ribbons for Deployed soldiers, which was organized to facilitate information and support for the wives of soldiers living in this area. They had the permission of the Family Resource Group out of Kansas City to form.
Oder said the group is not asking for a ceremony here, as there will be ceremonies in plenty in Cape. However, she explains many soldiers believe people in the county are unaware there are still some soldiers from this area serving in Iraq.
She wants to show the individuals that people here not only know, but care.
"Just because there are only 13 of them doesn't mean they don't deserve recognition from their own hometown," Oder said. "They went over there and risked their lives."
Read the rest at the Daily Journal
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