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Hats -- and shirts -- off to U.S. troops

Feb-20-2004 » Filed Under: Mail & Care Packages

Liz Jackson is busy with another great project.

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By MIKE BARBER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Karen Leming of the Tacoma Fire Department's Engine 10 is giving U.S. troops in Iraq the shirt off her back.

So are Stacy Waterworth, Bruce Bouyer and scores of fellow firefighters, police and other public-safety officers around the region at the one-year anniversary of the start of war in Iraq...

"Some shirts are a little frayed, gently worn because they're literally from off their backs," says Liz Jackson of Lakewood, who is collecting the assortment...

Solely by word of mouth, e-mail and shoe leather, Jackson has sparked a huge response. More than 200 shirts have been collected from around Western Washington. She hopes for more from around the state and beyond before Tuesday's deadline. The shirts will be packaged and sent to Fort Lewis' Stryker Brigade in Iraq by volunteers Feb. 28 at Camp Murray, the state's National Guard headquarters.


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