Articles by By Marion Cornett

Janet Martindale used to spend at least 45 minutes to one hour packing and repacking one "care" package to send to her son, Chris, who is stationed in Afghanistan as a Lead Corpsman. That doesn't count the time she spent collecting the items and then getting the box to the post office. But none of that mattered — she was doing this out of love for her son and wanting him to experience a bit of "home" while he served his tour of duty.