Student helps soldiers comfort children

When a Clark-Pleasant Middle School student’s father left for National Guard training, he left his son a recording of him singing.

Kolin Burns, now a seventh-grader, said the recording reassured him while his father was in Louisiana. His father singing was comforting, he said.

Now he wants to help today’s generation of soldiers offer that same kind of personal comfort to their children through the Camp Atterbury USO United Through Reading program.

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