Knitters do their thing for soldiers
The News Journal - May 29 2006
They also serve who knit.Socks for Soldiers is a Web site creation of Mansfield resident Kim Opperman that now has 135 knitters signed up. Opperman said her goal is to have 100,000 knitters hard at work, turning out black, military style socks and sending them to her.
In turn, she sends the socks, along with usable items like stamps, sewing kits, sunburn cream and Ziploc bags, to an outfit called Keystone Soldiers.
"These people ship thousands of boxes a year to soldiers overseas," Opperman said. "So far, 15 to 20 of the people who have signed up have sent finished socks to me. I believe that 125 of the 135 people who have signed up have socks in progress."Opperman's daughter, Rachel, 11, is one of the knitters at work on a sock project. Another is Betty Beahrens, of Mansfield, who was doing the same thing for soldiers as a young girl during World War II.
"Back then the Red Cross was recruiting knitters and the socks had to be olive green, not black," Beahrens said. [more]
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