General News: Episcopal Church to Ship Goods to Wounded Soldiers
Jay Townsend is helping with the donations
Personal items like these are in demand
February 12, 2007
A pile of personal items are ready to be shipped to soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan who often arrive at military hospitals with nothing but the uniforms they are wearing.
Members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Cornwall collected the items for the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project, which ships items to that hospital in Germany and to field hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq. The effort was coordinated by the church's outreach committee.
Jay Townsend, the warden of the church's vestry, says he is "aghast" that soldiers need these very basic supplies, like razors and toothbrushes, that are not supplied by the U.S. military.
