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Since this is a local story, I thought I'd share it here.
(CBS13) SACRAMENTO Deborah Johns of Roseville is spending a lot of time at her P.O. box these days. "This one's gonna go to Wil, so let's put a W on there, said Johns. "And these I'm gonna' send to the other guys, she added.
She's shipping and receiving boxes of gifts for the troops in Iraq. "It's been about eight to ten every day, said Johns.
And inside most of these packages,"Crazy string. Hand warmers, said Johns.
The move to include crazy string or silly string for the troops has become something of a national phenomenon. It started a few weeks ago when Time Magazine mentioned that an army combat engineer in Iraq wanted his New Jersey mom to send some of the aerosol cans to his unit. The troops had figured out how to use it to detect trip wires that could be connected to bombs. A demonstration shows the string gets hung up on a wire that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.
A New Jersey mom started a collection drive. Shipments from all around the country are piling up in her garage. She tells us by telephone, she's overwhelmed, in a good way. "We're gonna' have to get it over to the warehouse to get it boxed because we're gonna' be pushed out of the garage I am absolutely thrilled that the American people are coming to my little campaign that I started five weeks ago, said military mom Marcelle Shriver.
And since we reported last week that Deborah Johns was sending the string to her marine son who requested it, she's also been overwhelmed. "All across the country, people are just rallying behind sending stuff to our troops to make life a little easier for them still at the holidays and to go out of their way for them. And that means a lot to all of us parents. It really does, said Johns.
Since this is a local story, I thought I'd share it here.
(CBS13) SACRAMENTO Deborah Johns of Roseville is spending a lot of time at her P.O. box these days. "This one's gonna go to Wil, so let's put a W on there, said Johns. "And these I'm gonna' send to the other guys, she added.
She's shipping and receiving boxes of gifts for the troops in Iraq. "It's been about eight to ten every day, said Johns.
And inside most of these packages,"Crazy string. Hand warmers, said Johns.
The move to include crazy string or silly string for the troops has become something of a national phenomenon. It started a few weeks ago when Time Magazine mentioned that an army combat engineer in Iraq wanted his New Jersey mom to send some of the aerosol cans to his unit. The troops had figured out how to use it to detect trip wires that could be connected to bombs. A demonstration shows the string gets hung up on a wire that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.
A New Jersey mom started a collection drive. Shipments from all around the country are piling up in her garage. She tells us by telephone, she's overwhelmed, in a good way. "We're gonna' have to get it over to the warehouse to get it boxed because we're gonna' be pushed out of the garage I am absolutely thrilled that the American people are coming to my little campaign that I started five weeks ago, said military mom Marcelle Shriver.
And since we reported last week that Deborah Johns was sending the string to her marine son who requested it, she's also been overwhelmed. "All across the country, people are just rallying behind sending stuff to our troops to make life a little easier for them still at the holidays and to go out of their way for them. And that means a lot to all of us parents. It really does, said Johns.
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