Group hopes to help comfort injured soldiers' loved ones
By Paul Wood
Sunday September 14, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
Laura Stewart and Hal Loebach display some of the items collected at the Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul to help families of injured soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
RANTOUL – Army Sgt. First Class Richard Vaillancourt, a Rantoul native, was two days away from shipping out to Iraq when he was injured in a training accident.
While recuperating at Fort Gordon in Georgia, he noticed the families of the injured often come to the bases unprepared for what could be weeks of stay.
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