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Project founded to comfort recent war veterans expanded to include vets from earlier wars
by Donald Morrison
Only one thing comforted Lieutenant Daniel Massey after he was injured while serving in Iraq. It was 2009, and he’d been left temporarily paralyzed from injuries sustained during a mortar blast in Basra. He wasn’t sure if he’d ever walk again.
“I came back from one of my procedures and on my bed was this blanket,” Lt. Massey said. “There was a note. ‘To Lieutenant Dan Massey, you’re our hero, thank you very much for your service to our country.’ and I just started bawling.”
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
Camp Pendleton Fire Department and Cal Fire worked together to fight the Creek Fire that blazed in Fallbrook and the installation beginning Thursday, December 24.
By Saturday evening, the fire was 90 percent contained and over 4,200 acres. The fire initially posed a threat to eastern areas of base. However, through firefighting strategies of back burns and control lines, by 5 p.m. on December 24, the fire no longer posed any threat to structures.
Residents living in the Lake O’Neill Campground, O’Neill Heights, Wounded Warrior Battalion, and De Luz base housing areas were ordered to evacuate early Thursday morning. They gathered at Paige Fieldhouse where they awaited updates and heard from Brig. Gen. Dan Conley, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations West, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
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