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Archive Home > 2005 > January > 07 > Family 'adopts' platoon in Iraq

Family 'adopts' platoon in Iraq

By Yoko Minoura / The Bulletin
January 7, 2005

Sitting at a kitchen table piled high with Ziploc bags containing packages of ramen, miniature candy bars and other snacks, 11-year-old Kyrsten Sonnier scrawled a message inside a greeting card.

"Dear Soldier," she wrote, "Thanks for going to war to save our country."

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