Blue Star Mothers support troops with care packages, more - Military Notes by Brian Albrecht - Cleveland.com: "Home comes cellophane-wrapped, as in the handfuls of hard candy dropped like long-distance Easter eggs in postal shipping boxes scattered across a small room of the Lakewood Christian Church.
It comes vacuum-packed in bags of homemade beef jerky that Blue Star Mother Nikki Rothschiller, of Cleveland, sealed as 10 Boy Scouts of Troop 41 in Bay Village stuffed footwear in the overseas-bound boxes as part of their "Socks for Soldiers" effort.
Home also comes wrapped in horsehide - new gleaming-white baseballs that Betty Crighton, of Cleveland, mother of an Army captain who recently finished his second tour in Iraq, pitched into in each box. "It's opening season," she explained with a smile. "We try to make it cheerful.""
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