Letter: Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

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To the Editor:

The Board of Directors of the Al Nelson Friendship Center Food Pantry in North Adams wishes to thank the North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida Mountain community for their generation donations to the May 11 Letter Carrier Food Drive.

We received a total of 3,595 pounds of food and personal care items.

We equally want to thank our Letter Carriers who work out of the North Adams Post Office. They again went above and beyond in collecting the donations and bringing them to the collection and sorting site. They are always a pleasure to work with.

We also want to thank the Northern Berkshire United Way, the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and the Berkshire United Way for their support, as well all of the volunteers who helped on the day of the Food Drive.

Lois Daunis
North Adams, Mass. 

Daunis is the board president of the Friendship Center.

 

 

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Veteran Spotlight: Marine Col. Kevin Doyle

By Wayne SoaresSpecial to iBerkshires
FALMOUTH, Mass. — Kevin Doyle served his country for 30 years in both active and reserve service in the Marine Corps, retiring as a colonel. 
 
His dad was a highly decorated lieutenant commander in the Navy in World War II and his son, Brian, served in the Army for 23 years. 
 
Doyle grew up in Arlington and attended Arlington High School. In 1963, he received a Navy ROTC scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and was commissioned in 1967.
 
He shared a very powerful story of when he was attending Vietnamese Language School in Washington, D.C., the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. 
 
"It was kind of eerie, the whole sky darkened, buses were belching black smoke," he said. "It was like a Hollywood production. A bunch of us were leaving school and I said we should grab a cab. There was an African-American staff sergeant who said, 'I don't think you should do that today.'"
 
In 1968, Doyle was sent as an adviser to the Regional Forces in Vietnam, where he commanded troops during the war. 
 
He offered this on being away for the holidays: "You get wistful, my family sent me Christmas stockings and I kept them. I went to church in the compound and when I came back to my tent, there was a mist in the air," he said. "I closed my eyes and pretended it was snow."
 
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