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ADOPT-A-VET DELIVERS MOUNDS OF GIFTS TO VA -- It started
with the Rev. Debbie Moss' request at church -
Would anyone
like to adopt a veteran for Christmas?
Lorreta Perry, foreground, performs
with fellow members of the Bunny Ott Dancers dance troupe while
entertaining veterans at a Christmas party thrown by members of the
Tampa Unity Church for residents of the James A. Halley VA nursing
home in Tampa Sunday afternoon. (photo: Stephen J. Coddington -
Times) |
Story here...
http://www.sptimes.com/
2007/12/24/Hillsborough/Adopt_a_vet_delivers_.shtml
Story below:
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Adopt-a-vet delivers mounds of gifts to VA
By EMILY NIPPS
Times Staff Writer
TAMPA - It started with the Rev. Debbie Moss' request three weeks ago at a
Tampa Unity Church service: Would anyone like to adopt a veteran for
Christmas?
The response, she said, was overwhelming.
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Moss learned from a Tampa Unity member and James
A. Haley VA Medical Center employee that several lonely Tampa veterans
have no living friends or family to visit them over the holidays. She
decided to take on 20, hoping her congregation would help provide gifts
and company to the chosen vets.
Tampa Unity wound up giving hundreds of gifts to 40 veterans, who gathered
in a room at Haley's nursing home wing to eat cookies and drink soda with
the friendly strangers. Some nodded and sang along with the choir's
Christmas carols. A local professional dance troupe, the Bunny Ott
Dancers, shimmied around the room. "Isn't this amazing?" Moss said. "We
first thought we'd just go sing, have a few presents, and it just grew
from there. We really didn't know what we were getting into."
Some from the 300-member church handed out wrapped gifts to the veterans,
who had provided their first name and last initial, and what they wanted
for Christmas. The more popular items were blankets, underwear,
sweatshirts, shaving cream, tapes or CDs and stuffed animals. Tampa Unity
members will return to the hospital nursing home on Christmas to deliver
more gifts.
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