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Trading words from Iraq for news from Puyallup

Feb-27-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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BILL HUTCHENS AND MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Lesson for the afternoon:

"What should we write to soldiers in Iraq?"

Steve Leifsen posed that question Thursday to his Pope Elementary School sixth-graders, and the kids came up with several ideas.

"Sports stuff."

"Weather."

"What's going on in the news."

"What we're doing in school."

Leifsen's Puyallup students have a special pen-pal connection to the 5,000-some soldiers in Fort Lewis' first Stryker brigade, who left in November for a year's duty to help restore peace and order in Iraq.

For one boy, the connection goes deeper. Twelve-year-old Ben O'Day is the son of Army First Sgt. Eugene O'Day, the top enlisted soldier in the brigade's headquarters company.


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