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America Supports You: Girl Collects Batteries for Troops
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| 2005 May 25
| Steven Donald Smith
Posted on 05/26/2005 6:32:45 AM PDT by Wiz
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2005 – Batteries are the lifeblood of many things electronic. Without them, most CD players, digital cameras and handheld games are essentially useless.
When 12-year-old Lizzy Lulu, of Lancaster, Calif., learned that American servicemembers in Iraq often use these electronic devices, she decided to launch a campaign to collect 1,000,000 "AA" batteries.
"I knew that they would not have enough batteries to keep them running, so I started to collect batteries to send to them," Lizzy said.
"Through this battery campaign we hope to give the men and woman serving overseas a little bit of joy," added Lizzy's mother, Jennifer Petty.
Lizzy and her mother have set up various collection locations in their area and have received batteries from across the United States, Petty said.
All batteries collected will be donated to Operation Gratitude, where they will be divided up and shipped to troops in care packages. Operation Gratitude is a nonprofit organization providing a way for Americans to send items to servicemembers stationed overseas.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:32:46 AM PDT
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Wiz
To: Wiz
To: Wiz
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:38:26 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:39:19 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Wiz
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:40:45 AM PDT
by
wolicy_ponk
(If we're not the mainstream, how come we nearly control all three branches of Government?)
To: Wiz
She might wanna start a collection of batteries for the troops' lonely wives at home too! ;-)
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:41:55 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927)
To: Lekker 1
They find them in momma's night stand right?
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:43:02 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
To: Wiz
Regardless of duplication, it is really nice to see a POSITIVE STORY in the media, a story about someone doing good for our troops. What a refreshing change from the normal liberal/left negative doom and gloom that permeates the fish wrappers...
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:43:30 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Wiz
So, will some of her batteries wind up being sent to artillery batteries? Just wondering!<G>
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:43:40 AM PDT
by
JAWs
To: Sybeck1
Naughty. You seem to know a lot about the subject.
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posted on
05/26/2005 6:59:31 AM PDT
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Lekker 1
("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927)
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