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| Cardboard Cutout Soldier Parents - Cute or Creepy? |
| 2009-06-02 |
| Thanks to a popular family-support program run by the Maine National Guard, he is never far from his family's thoughts. The program supplies life-size cutouts of deployed service members to relatives back home. There are about 200 flat daddies and mommies in Maine, and they do just about everything with their families. Craig Bailey's flat daddy attends church regularly and, on the back of flat daddy, Jennifer keeps a log of everywhere he's been. They bring him to events that the real Craig Bailey would attend if he were at home, like his son's football games. "It was actually fun," Nate told Storm. "Well, the game, we actually lost, and he just reminds me of him and when I see him it makes me feel good inside." The cardboard version of Bailey also sits with the family at the dinner table, something that Jennifer Bailey said "freaks out" visitors. Program goes back to 2006, and seems successful. However... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 I for one would NOT like bing replaced by a cardboad cutout, it's disrespectfull. |
| Posted by: mstrmech 2009-06-02 19:23 |