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Show Kids send moil to soldiers j BOUNTIFUL-Students at Oak Hills Elementary School have reaped the harvest from their efforts of writing letters to servicemen and women participating in Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia by getting several replies back. A few weeks ago students from several of the classes at Oak Hills accepted the challenge of writing letters to military personnel. Captain Cap-tain Denise Schofield (one of the Oak Hills moms and a member of the Utah Air National Guard) put the letters on one of the Utah Air National Guard planes to be delivered to Saudi Arabia. According to Pam Wing, Oak Hills PTA president, several classes have received letters, along with letters to individual students. "The letter have been very heart warming." warm-ing." Mrs. Connelly's kindergarten class received a response from a soldier from South Dakota. He wrote, "My oldest is five years old and started kindergarten two days after I left for Desert Shield. My wife, Carol, has mailed some of his pictures and samples of his writing. I couldn't help being a little choked up as we put up your poster, imagining imagin-ing another little blonde head in another an-other class in South Dakota learning to write his letters and learning to read, sleeping with his mom because he wonders where his dad is...Thanks for caring enough." Arnold Ar-nold Jordon, Sgt., USAF. "It has been a wonderful experience experi-ence for all of the children," Wing said. For anyone wishing to write to the servicemen, the address is: APO New York 09848-0006 or for military personnel serving in the Navy and Marines aboard ships: FPO New York, New York 09866-0006. Pam Wing, Oak Hills Elementary PTA president and Captain Denise Schofield examine the letter a serviceman in Suadi Arabia wrote to Mrs. Connelly's kindergarten class in response to the letters the class sent lo the servicemen. He wrote that the poster the children sent reminded him of his five-year-old son he had left at home when he left for Desert Shield duty. |