DDESS Schools in the News
Fort Rucker Primary Students Send Care Packages to Deployed Soldiers.
by Nathan Pfau, Army Flier
Army Flier
Fort Rucker, AL | December 8, 2011
A teacher's aide, helps students create apple cinnamon ornaments to be hung on the Christmas trees sent to deployed Soldiers | Photo: Nathan Pfau
The kindergarten teachers at Fort Rucker Primary School taught their students the importance of showing thanks and appreciation to deployed Soldiers Dec. 1 with Operation: Celebration, an event to send holiday care packages to Soldiers spending their holidays on deployment.
The packages were sent Friday to Soldiers of the kindergarten Family members that are deployed in Afghanistan, Egypt, Honduras and Iraq.
The event began last year when Katie Condon, kindergarten teacher and organizer of the operation, decided that the school should do something special for the Families of her students that had deployed parents during the holidays. Read the full story . . .