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Non-Profit Group Seeks to Keep Troops Gaming

Non-Profit Group Seeks to Keep Troops Gaming

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A non-profit organization titled Fun For Our Troops is seeking to keep deployed troops entertained and keep their morale up by providing them with video games.

The Bucks County Courier-Times reports that military wife Stefanie Doctor Shea started the organization after her husband, Sgt. Michael Shea, was deployed for a second tour of duty in Iraq .  Sgt Shea enjoyed playing the Wii regularly before his deployment.

Dana Blackman Brady, who is partnering with Stefanie Shea in Fun For Our Troops, stated that “What [the troops] really appreciate over there are the true comforts of home. The stress relief and the escapism involved in these games, we really think could be beneficial…We’re hoping to get  throughout the year. We don’t want to have [soldiers] wait. We do foresee the issues with Christmas. It’s going to be a crunch for those games,”

Stephanie Shea describes the program, stating that “[they] are working on an official website which will allow troops to sign themselves up as recipients or family members can sign them up. They will also be able to tell us what, if any, systems they do have so we can donate appropriate games,”

The program will work with all branches of the military, but any recipients must be deployed.  More information can be found at the organization’s official website .

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