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Toys for Tots campaign under way

by Audrey Thomasson

WHITE STONE—The U.S. Marine Corps is well known for storming beaches during wartime.

So it was a big surprise when just days before Christmas 2005, they unexpectedly arrived at my daughter’s front door with a Christmas tree. They set up the tree, decorated it with lights and shiny ornaments and laid out a bundle of gifts for my 8-month-old grandson, Tyler.

It was Tyler’s first Christmas.

And it was our first Christmas without Tyler’s father, Tom, a U.S. Army officer who lost his life in Iraq just weeks earlier. Our family’s grief was so great that we planned to skip Christmas altogether.

But then the Marines arrived…

Rappahannock Record Staff
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