Mom with deployed son leads card drive
A Christmas card drive on the campus of Western Carolina University netted more than 4,000 cards for soldiers stationed overseas.
Tables were set up across campus during various times this fall for students to sign cards for deployed soldiers or veterans spending the holidays in VA hospitals.
Cards collected during the drive are distributed randomly to U.S. military men and women by the Red Cross.
The cards are a “big morale booster” for service, said Briana Ford, director of WCU’s Office of Military Student Services, whose own son happens to be stationed in Qatar.
“I think of all the other families who are especially missing their sons and daughters during this time of year, just as we are missing our son, and that inspires me to continue this card drive to show these service members we miss them, we are thinking of them, and we appreciate them for their many sacrifices,” said Ford.
