Laurelwoods ES postcards reach Canadian Armed Forces members in Kuwait
May 22, 2019
AMARANTH, Ontario – Students from Laurelwoods Elementary School have touched the hearts of military members serving in Kuwait.
Earlier this year, at Remembrance Day, all of the kids in the elementary school wrote or drew on a Postcard for Peace to thank those in the Canadian Armed Forces for their service.
During a school assembly, each student symbolically ‘mailed’ their postcard in a mailbox. Afterwards, staff grouped the postcards into six bundles and sent them to different Military Resource Centres in Ontario.
On May 21, the school received a lovely letter from Jeff Aman, Chief Warrant Officer with the Joint Task Force – Operation Impact based in Kuwait. In his letter, he thanked the students for sending postcards, which they received from the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre.
He said he wanted to pass along how much the postcards meant to the Operation Impact members, adding that it was really nice to know that the students at Laurelwoods ES were thinking of the Canadians serving in Canada and abroad.
He also included a photo of the task force members with some of the postcards they received. Other postcards from the Laurelwoods kids are now hanging in the offices of the members in Kuwait as a reminder of kindness and appreciation.
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