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Benicia High students show they care

Feb- 7-2005 » Filed Under: Homefront

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By SARAH ROHRS, Times-Herald staff writer

BENICIA - Jeremy Thomas, a Benicia High School senior, does not support the Iraq war, but he does support the soldiers, and appreciates that they risk their lives daily fighting in a country so far from home.

Fellow senior Sean Ryan, meanwhile, is rapidly approaching age 18 and is worried about a war-time draft. For months, Iraq and the soldiers fighting and dying there have been on his mind.

Both are part of Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), a student business club. It is creating 175 care packages to send to the U.S. Army 1-24th Stryker Brigade, based in Mosul, Iraq.

"We felt that after the holidays the soldiers are forgotten. We needed a civic project and we thought, why not give back to the soldiers? It's good to show them appreciation of what they are doing for us," Thomas said.

Through Friday, Thomas, Ryan and other SAGE members, such as club president Krista Cowgill, are collecting a host of items to put into shoe boxes. Joe Henderson Elementary third-graders will decorate each shoe box, and the packages will be sent to Mosul.

As part of the "Show Our Soldiers We Care Project," SAGE students have placed large collection boxes in all BHS classrooms, and inside the school's main lobby. They are also seeking financial contributions to help pay for postage, and running concession stands at basketball games to collect money.


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