Program uses reading to bring families together from thousands of miles away

235 views · Published 21 October 2016 · 3:36 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2016 · News & Politics

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Possibly the hardest part of deploying for servicemembers is having to leave their families back home. That’s hard on the children, too. Check out how servicemembers on the deployed aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower are connecting with their children through a program called United Through Reading. (Some footage provided by USS Dwight D. Eisenhower media department and the Longshore family.)

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