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Serious about silly string.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)
Last year, Marcelle Shriver, who lives in a New Jersey suburb across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, received a strange request from her son, who was stationed in Ramadi, Iraq. He and his fellow soldiers were in desperate need of Silly String, the novelty aerosol cans that shoot strands of rubbery string across a room. Their purpose? When soldiers enter a room or a building they are searching, they may disturb almost-invisible trip wires attached to booby traps. The Silly String gets hung up on the trip wires, revealing their presence without triggering them.
Since Silly String is not on the military's official list of supplies, the soldiers depend on volunteers to ship it to them.
Shriver organized a campaign to collect cans of Silly String, box them, and address them to individual servicemen and servicewomen in Iraq. Her campaign ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 6, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack October 15, 2007 700+ words
...UPI) -- Red tape holding up a Silly String shipment to U.S. troops in...resolved more than a year after a New Jersey mom tried to send the cans to...t transport the cans because Silly String isn't standard issue, the newspaper...
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- Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) December 13, 2006 700+ words
...Administration requirements, Silly String is an airsole, nonflammable...Glass said. Packages of Silly String are prohibited by air...Iraq came about when a New Jersey mom, Marcelle Shriver...her to send him some Silly String. She collected 1...
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- Newspaper article from: Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY) December 8, 2006 700+ words
...use the novelty item Silly String to detect booby traps...marketing manager for Silly String maker Just For Kicks...when he heard about a New Jersey woman who is collecting...in Watertown knew of Silly String's connection to the...
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...Marcelle Shriver of Stratford, New Jersey, a Philadelphia suburb...employed a very special device: Silly String! The Marines discovered that if they shot a stream of Silly String into a room before entering...started dropping cans of Silly String into Sunday collection ...
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