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Operation First Response: a Focus on Everyday Needs

By Nicole Lewis

Culpeper, Va.

Twice a week, Peggy Baker and her husband, Steve, drive down their gravel driveway and head 80 miles north to visit families of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington. Their Dodge Durango makes the trip loaded with groceries, shampoo, toothpaste, handmade throw blankets, and even a compact refrigerator...

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