98-year-old Alleen Cooper doesn’t just write birthday cards to her friends and relatives, she also writes letters to the service members who are deployed overseas. She started writing to the military members since World War II. Since then, the grandma has written over 7000 unique letters and each one is four pages long. Soldier have thanked her by sending commendations and flags. Cooper says she wants to do the same as long as she can.
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“[Christ’s Birth Announced to Mary] Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!””
Luke 1:26-28
