PIECE OF HOME AmeriCorps Members Assemble Care Packages For Deployed Troops
Reported by: Rachael Tarr
Videographer: John Tincher
Web Producer: Jeff Morris
Reported: Oct. 19, 2012 12:34 PM EDT
Updated: Oct. 19, 2012 1:00 PM EDT
EYEWITNESS ONLINE WEBCAST VIDEO C L I C K T O P L A Y
South Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
More than 160 AmeriCorps members are sending a little piece of home to our troops overseas.
It was all a part of the service project called “Operation Remembrance.” The AmeriCorps members stuffed and assembled nearly 1,000 care packages Friday for the deployed troops. The efforts to help the troops took place at the Holiday Inn in South Charleston.
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Rachael Tarr
