Stephen King pays for guardsmen to come home
Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
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{EXCERPT} The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Dec 13, 2009 12:53:14 EST
BANGOR, Maine � Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays.
King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas. The soldiers
left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January.
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> Stephen King pays for guardsmen to come home
> http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/ap_stephen_king_donation_121309/
>
> {EXCERPT} The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Dec 13, 2009 12:53:14 EST
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>
> King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas. The soldiers
> left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January.
>
>
I heard on the radio this morning that King actually donated 12,999 and
his assistant provided the last dollar so he wouldn't have the unlucky
number