Cupids to Point Arrows at U.S. Troops in Gulf
LOVELAND, Colo. — Cupid’s helpers have aimed their arrows this upcoming Valentine’s Day toward U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.
On a Loveland post office assembly line, they are stamping love notes on Valentine’s Day cards. Kids in Conway, Ark., are sending thousands of cards. Everybody in Marshalltown, Iowa, is invited to sign a huge Valentine.
Loveland’s “Operation Valentine” aims to deliver a card to each of the more than 450,000 U.S. servicemen and women in the Middle East by Feb. 14.
“I feel like all of us have somebody over there,” said Cathy Minter, the U.S. Postal Service employee in charge of Operation Valentine. “Even if we don’t know them, it’s like all of us have a real stake in what’s going on over there.”
Dayton, Ohio, residents have launched “Operation Support,” which spokesman Dennis Geehan hopes will send up to 500,000 Valentine’s Day postcards to servicemen.
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