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  • Help honor the "Hug Lady" who cared for our troops (FReep a Petition!)

    12/26/2015 12:25:20 PM PST · by Marie · 6 replies
    Change.org ^ | Nov, 2015 | Jeffrey Wolf
    This is a petition to honor Miss Elizabeth (the Fort Hood Hug Lady) by posthumously renaming the Fort Hood Deployment center the Elizabeth Laird Deployment Center. Miss Elizabeth has doled out more than half a million hugs to soldiers leaving and coming home from Ft. Hood. She's touched so many lives. For some, her's was the last hug that they had on this earth. For others, her's was the first good thing that happened to them when they got home. She was there days, nights, weekends, holidays... rain or shine, Miss Elizabeth was there for our troops. And she did...
  • Elizabeth Laird The Hug Lady Passes Away (Ft Hood, Texas)

    12/24/2015 5:15:23 PM PST · by Ready4Freddy · 28 replies
    KCEN TV Waco, TX ^ | Dec 24, 2015 5:13 PM CST | Staff
    COPPERAS COVE – Elizabeth Laird ‘The Hug Lady’ passed away Thursday at Metroplex Hospital. Laird made it her mission to hug every single soldier as they boarded planes to deploy and waited with a hug when they returned to welcome them home. She was 83 years-old. Services are pending with Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home of Copperas Cove.