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Helping troops phone home.(The Goodness Of America)
Fourteen-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her twelve-year-old brother Robbie live in Norwell, Massachusetts, a town located 17 miles north of historic Plymouth. These days, however, the two have been taking part in history, rather than just reading about it.
It all started last April, when the youngsters heard a news report about a Massachusetts soldier who ran up $7,600 in cell phone charges while calling home from Iraq. The story inspired the pair to help the soldier pay off his phone bill. The siblings pooled their snack money (including the entire contents of Robbie's piggy bank) and took it to the South Shore Savings Bank, whose management, upon hearing of their plan, donated $500 to help them get started.
When they learned that the cell phone company had agreed to cancel most of the soldier's bill, Brittany and Robbie looked for a way to help other soldiers stationed in Iraq to call loved ones back home. They located a company that bought used cell phones for recycling purposes and came up with the idea of collecting used phones and selling them to raise funds. They could then use the proceeds to buy prepaid phone cards to send to military personnel overseas. They called their plan Cell Phones for Soldiers.
When word of Cell Phones for Soldiers spread, support mushroomed. Neighbors held yard sales to raise funds for the cause. Following newspaper and TV coverage, hundreds of schools and organizations nationwide started local chapters and became drop-off centers for used cell phones. Jim Kelly, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, ...
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