Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020 12:01 a.m.
| Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020 12:01 a.m.
Children receive backpacks full of school supplies from the USO’s Rucksacks to Backpacks program in Moon Township in August.
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United Service Organizations, better known simply as USO, has been improving the lives of military members and their families since World War II, but the organization went decades without a presence in Western Pennsylvania
“It was just an unserved area, nobody really had ownership of it,” said Christine Ree, USO operations manager in Western Pennsylvania. “There was a desire to put a USO in Pittsburgh. From my research, it’s been since 1947 that we had any USO presence in Pittsburgh.”