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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Nov. 28, 2007

No. 07-177

TOPEKA STUDENTS MAKE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOR KANSAS GUARDSMEN

The first grade classes at Wanamaker Elementary School in Topeka are doing their part to make the holidays a little brighter for members of the Kansas National Guard’s 35th Military Police Company. Approximately 170 soldiers of the company deployed in June for a year-long mission in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. About 35 soldiers are in the rear detachment.

The classes have been making Christmas decorations to go on the unit’s Christmas tree. Members of the unit who did not deploy will visit the school on Friday, Nov. 30, when classes let out for the day at approximately 3:20 p.m., to pick up the decorations and thank the students for their work. The decorations will be displayed on the rear detachment’s tree in Topeka.

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