Adopting soldiers
Sgt. Chuck Norris of Company A, 1st/112th Mechanized Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, sets up a PowerPoint presentation with Emily Brittain kindergarten students Rebecca Rauschenberger and Tyler Bell. Sgt. Norris was at the school Nov. 5 to show students the training he had to go through in preparation for his unit's deployment to Iraq. Students in Deborah Wellner's kindergarten class and Shirley Fox's fifth grade class are officially "adopting" Norris' unit while it is in Iraq. The students' program is part of the Support Operation Solider: Butler (SOS-Butler). The students plan to send care packages to all 151 soldiers in the unit, who are all from the Butler area. Each month, a different category for items to be collected and sent will be designated. Students will also write letters and make cards to send with the care packages.
