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It was less than a week before Christmas, and all across Arizona, temperatures were in the mid 70s. American Legion Riders of District 12 were stirring once again, under a sunny Phoenix sky, to collect and deliver gifts at the State Veteran Home in an annual program affected, but by no means canceled, by the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the morning of Dec. 20, American Legion Riders from the district delivered more than 100 donated gifts to the Arizona long-term care facility in a program called Christmas Stars. The gifts were purchased based on the wishes of each veteran at the home.
For the past four years, Dixie Becker, secretary of American Legion Riders Chapter 27 in Apache Junction, Ariz., has been running the program with the intention that every veteran at the home gets a gift.