As the holidays near, many men and women who serve our country overseas won’t be coming home for Christmas. A group of students in Rogers County are sending a mix of Christmas joy and the Oklahoma standard to the state’s bravest.
The Rogers Co. Training Leaders’ Community 4-H club partners with the Blue Star Mothers of Oklahoma to fill stockings and send them to troops from Rogers County who are deployed.
This year the club hand-sewn 30 stockings filled with toiletries, snacks, candy, and letters from the students to show thanks and let troops know their state is thinking about them.
Emma burch- KJRH Donna Daley, the leader of T-L-C 4-H, told 2 News that this is the eighth year of this project, and one soldier back in Oklahoma told her a story about getting his stocking.
“The manager there had been deployed so he had received one of these packages, and he said it was so fun getting something and knowing somebody cares about us,” Daley said.
The club consists of students of all ages from home and public schools across Rogers County.