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Group to Distribute Free School Supplies to Children of APG Soldiers
The backpacks will be distributed on Aug. 16.
A national nonprofit will be handing out free school supplies to children of Aberdeen Proving Ground personnel.
Operation Homefront volunteers will be at the Army installation from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 16, officials announced Wednesday. Aberdeen is one of five such stops for the school supply campaign.
“Military families deal not only with deployments and the other stresses of military life, but also the economic difficulties shared by all Americans,” said Vivian Dietrich, executive director of the organization's Washington field office, in a release. “These donated school supplies enhance the morale and the success of our military children, while easing the burden military families carry.”
The school supplies were collected via Dollar Tree stores in Maryland, Washington and Virginia.
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