An 11-year-old from Lebanon County in Pennsylvania, Jordan Brown has long been fascinated by World War II and one old soldier in particular -- Dick Winters, the Easy Company commander made famous by the HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers."
Mr. Winters, a Lancaster native who lives in Hershey, is 92 and has Parkinson's disease.
But a statue of him is going up in France, and Jordan has taken it upon himself to raise money for it by selling $1 rubber wristbands in the tradition of Lance Armstrong's yellow "Live Strong" bracelets.
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4 comments:
good on this young man--
would you pray for Lt Larkin O'Hern and his family...
http://carolmsblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/please-pray-for-lt-larkin-ohern-and-his.html
Hope your surgery went well...
C-CS
That is pretty cool for a kid to take up the cause like that. Dick Winters is definitely someone to be fascinated with.
11 years old, there is hope for our country......
what an enterprising young man! I am seeing a former soldier in that pic....
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