16 January 2009
Fly Through Dallas for Cookies
Posted by admin under: community service .
If your favorite service member is flying into or out of the country tell them to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Back in October the Girl Scouts were greeting and thanking them and they’re up to it again.
By Claire Conditt
The eighth-graders of Girl Scout Troop 3226 greeted soldiers arriving at the D-FWAirport for the holidays with cookies, cards, smiles and handshakes.
The 167 faithful men and women who were stationed in Iraq, coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, had a very long trip home – flying from Iraq to Germany, stopping in Atlanta, and finally landing at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
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The Girl Scouts were all set up with their cookies and hand-made cards to hand out, as well. A couple of minutes later, the plane landed and everybody cheered when the first soldiers walked through the crowd.
It really meant a lot to the girls in our troop and our leaders, because we had never experienced this before, and we were all excited to share what we had with the exhausted soldiers who are coming home for the first time in many months.
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Claire Conditt of Richardson, an eighth-grader at North Junior High School, is a member of Girl Scout Troop 3226.
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