PTSD vets get special valentines from Youngstown kids

PTSD vets get special valentines from Youngstown kids
Vindy.com
By DENISE DICK
YOUNGSTOWN

Fourth-graders at Taft Elementary School used valentines as a way to thank veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Pittsburgh.

The students in Laurie McEwan’s class wrote Valentine’s Day letters to the men housed at the medical center’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder clinic.

“You are a hero to me” and a “man who fought for glory,” Tavan Sallie, 9, wrote in his valentine.

“Thank you for doing your duty in Vietnam,” Kamille Moore, 10, wrote. “When I say the Pledge in school I think of your service in Vietnam.”

Valentine recipients range from World War II veterans to those who served in more recent conflicts.

The project was the idea of Peggy Yuhas, a parity tutor at the school. Her grandson was a patient at the clinic after serving in Afghanistan.
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