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Local youth provide comfort to troops through Adopt-a-Platoon program

Students and advisors with some of the care packages. Courtesy photo

Imagine what it would be like not to have access to basic hygiene supplies and comfort items and you’ll know what some of our troops are going through overseas.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day of Service, the Town of Southold’s Youth Bureau, assisted by Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) and the Mattituck High School Community Service Club spent a week collecting items for our service men and women and will donate them to the Adopt-a-Platoon program through Brookhaven Lab’s Veterans Association.

Students designed bags for each platoon member and filled them with items such as toiletries, canned food, baby wipes, magazines, footballs and other personal and comfort supplies.

The Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service is designed to teach and encourage students to honor the idea of service to country and community.

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Katharine is a writer and photographer who has lived on the North Fork for nearly 40 years, except for three-plus years in Hong Kong a decade ago, working for the actor Jackie Chan. She lives in Cutchogue. Email Katharine