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Guard Soldiers Headed To Afghanistan Get Sendoff

(Host) The largest deployment of the Vermont National Guard in the past 60 years got underway this week. Kara and Forrest Kitchen-Glodgett with their children Wyatt and Kade. Today, nearly six hundred guard members left for Fort Polk, Louisiana. Full Article at VPR | Vermont Public Radio

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