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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in his time now for our community
connection right here on Kay one, the

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one you trust. And today we're
talking to our Blue Star mothers and I

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gotta tell you, ladies, welcome
back. It's great to have Marie and

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Christina back into the studio. Christine, and we didn't scare you. Oh

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well, good, good good.
That is that is really good because I

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thought maybe, well then I saw
her out there smiling and she's like,

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oh yeah, we're back. So
tell us that, Christine. What's going

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you the vice president here, so
tell us what's going on here. We've

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got a Mother's Day dinner coming up. We do next Thursday, May the

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fourth, at six thirty. The
Painted Horse is giving us dinner for Mother's

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Day to celebrate. We're gonna hold
it at the Elks Lodge is right behind

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Walmart in their big banquet room.
They're letting us use their room, and

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we just want to invite all the
local military moms to come and join us

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and be celebrated along with us.
Well, that is great, that is

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really good. Do we have to
RSVP? Is that what we need to

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do? RSVPs would be great all
right. We have three different ways to

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do that. You can visit us
on Facebook at the Bartlesville Blue Star Mothers

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page. You can text or call
us at nine one eight three three seven

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two two one three, or our
email is blue Star Mothers Okay one nine

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at gmail dot com. Now do
you have to be an already a Blue

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Star mother for this or do you
just have to have a child or something

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you're caring for? Is is an
active service member? Yeah, if you

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are a female guardian of an active
service member, we would love to have

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you join us and enjoyed with us. Well, Mayrie, you're you're a

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member of Chapter nineteen with the Blue
Star Mothers. And not only have you

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been a Blue Star Mother, you've
been actually a service member, So you've

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been on both sides of this point, haven't you. Yes. Yes,

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And I was married to an active
duty service member who's now deceased, and

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my dad was in the Air Force, so I've experienced all that covered.

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Huh. Yes, And this is
a great organization and there's a very special

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bond between moms and their service members, and it's so encouraging to go and

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we share where they are, what
they're doing worldwide and then we packed the

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boxes of goodies to send them and
ship every month, and so it's really

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nice to have that relationship and share
in what our children are doing well.

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That is really something, you know, when we talk about being a mom,

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Matty, women know what that's like
to be a mom, and there

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are a lot of fathers out there
who have a the same feeling, just

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a little bit different, but it's
still the same general feeling. You can't

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help but worry about your youngster although
they're of age, but there's still your

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baby being someplace else. What's that
feeling, Christina? For me, it's

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always been a mixture of intense pride
and sometimes even a feeling of grief because

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especially when they're deployed and things are
going on in the world and you you

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have faith in them and their unit, you know, their their teams,

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but at the same time, that's
still my child, you know, And

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so it's really and it's so nice
to have the Blue Star moms that understand

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what that feeling is and so they
can help you work through it. Being

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on both sides of the coin,
you know that worry is very real.

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It isn't My son was deployed in
areas where I couldn't know where he was

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and really what was happening. And
we have some of those situations with our

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Blue Star moms today and so again
that kind of adds to the worry,

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Okay, what's going on? Where
are they? And you see news reports

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and you get concerned that, okay, is my son or daughter in that

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situation. But again, this is
really good for these groups to be able

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to encourage each other, support each
other because you have skin in the game.

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You know what it's like, Well, this sounds great, especially when

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you have people with a similar experience
getting together. You don't feels trapped up

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inside your heart, do you,
right? It really helps to have people

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that understand. And this is kind
of what this of this Mother's Day dinner

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on May fourth, it's really kind
of all about kind of get to know

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the Blue Star moms and say welcome. You know, we'd like to have

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you in. If you have any
questions, concerned, worries, you know,

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we can share him here, right
and celebrate the mom and celebrate the

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moms. They're the one doing all
the worries. And we've got Mother's Day

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coming out, so it's a great
time of year to recognize the moms in

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many ways. Ladies, We're gonna
take a quick break and when we come

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back, we're going to talk about
these boxes for our deployed. I understand

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this a little bit of a trick
to this, but it's a fun one.

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We'll get right back to that.
After these worries were bottom morning the

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camp you will hold on k one. I never forget this, called my

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freshman roommate. His mother called one
day and she said, Tim, and

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I can tell about her voice something
wrong? And I said, what's wrong?

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She said, can you get my
boy home from California? He's passed

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away out there. And that crushed
me, but I said, I sure

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will. I'll take care of it. I said, I'll figure it out.

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I will get your son home.
If that's what you do when your

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loved one dies, doesn't matter if
it's three in the morning, you call

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your funeral director and say, Tim, my loved one just died. What

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do I do? And I tell
you one of my greatest stories as I

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can tell. Six o'clock one Christmas
morning, a lady calls me. She

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said, they came over to get
my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her

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dead in her home. What do
we do? I said, let me

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get dressed. I'll be right there
and we'll just walk through this together.

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It's gonna be all right. I'll
take good care of her. Years later,

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she told me that was the single
most comforting phrase she'd ever heard.

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It'll be all right. We'll walk
through this together. Arnold Moore and me

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Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey,
Martelsville. We will walk through this together.

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And welcome back to k One,
the one you trust. We're talking

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with our blue Star mothers. May
we a beer and also Christina Kitty.

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Now, Christina, we've got a
We've talked about the Mother's Day dinner that's

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gonna be on May fourth out at
the Oaks Lodge and the folks from Painted

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Horse are putting that spread on.
Wow, you guys know how to do

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mom up good. She's got to
come back home ready to take a nap,

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a well deserved undivided reading my dad. Also, we have a sponsor

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box for our deployed. Tell us
what that is. So we have a

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list of individuals that have been given
to us by people in our community.

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So these are deployed service members and
every single month we send them two boxes.

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They get a food box and a
personal care box. And so instead

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of just doing donations, which we
always accept, if someone would like to

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sponsor a box, the contents of
each box is twenty five dollars and then

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shipping is also twenty five dollars,
so it's fifty dollars per box. And

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we went up a lot, didn't
Yeah, it did. So if anybody

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you know would prefer to just sponsor
a box and donate the twenty five or

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fifty dollars, that certainly helps us
get those out. We have an additional

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thousand Guardsman that are being shipped out
this month, and we're not adopting all

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thousand of them, but we are
apt a portion of those. So we're

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going to add to our numbers to
make sure that they feel love from home

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while they're gone. Now, what
kind of things going And you said food

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in one and then you know,
personal things in another. I understand that

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it's a kind of a fun deal
to pack these boxes. May it is?

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It is? And we have different
toilet trees that we put in the

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one box, like toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, and their customized because we

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do have men and women service members, and just toilet trees and things like

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that go in that box. The
other box is full of goodies. And

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on the form we take in for
specific service members, they list what their

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favorite candy is and so on and
so forth. So when they get the

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boxes, we get feedback and pictures
and them opening and sharing, and there's

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lot of goodies in those boxes.
Now, Christine, I understand that it

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kind of turns into a party when
you guys load the boxes. We love

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to share the love. We have
a good time while we're doing it,

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a little bit of a heartfelt giggle
fest at times, I imagine it is.

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And we set up the room with
six foot tables, and this again

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it's at the Elks Lodge who have
been so gracious and donating us a room

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a storage area, and so in
their main room we set up lots of

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six foot tables and we organize the
things we're going to put in boxes.

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So we grab a box, and
each one of us walks from table to

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table to table, picking up things
and putting them in those boxes, and

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we pack them full. Oh good, my goodness sakes, this sounds like

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a lot of fun and it's well
worth the fifty dollars that you do to

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sponsor a box and you can do
that. Just get a hold of book

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Christina or may read the they'll let
you know all the particular contacts. But

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we do want to revisit that the
big day coming up. It's it's Mother's

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Day dinner and that is May fourth
at the lodging. Can you give us

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particulars on that again, Christina,
So Thursday May the fourth at six thirty

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at the Elks Lodge at ten sixty
Swan Drive, which is right behind Walmart,

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and the painted Horse is going to
bring us dinner and we're going to

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celebrate being the mom's the heroes and
all you have to be as a mother

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or a female guardian of a service
member active service member and you're invited.

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You don't have to worry about anything. Just show up. Ye yes,

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I tell you what. That's major
spoilage and I like that Mom deserved major

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spoilage on Mothers Day. I want
to thank you both for being here with

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us, and again, if you
could tell us how folks can get a

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hold of you guys by email.
Okay, our email is Blue Star Mothers

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Okay one nine at gmail dot com. Okay, you can text or call

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us at nine, eight, three, three, seven, two, two

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and three, or visit on us
on Facebook at Blue Star Bartlesville, Blue

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Star Mothers. Alright, anything elsa
ladies would like to add, thanks so

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much for our sponsorship. Yes,
well love doing it. Yes, we

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are blessed to have a good community
that supports us, so we truly are.

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Thank you, Painted Horse, thank
you. All right, thanks ladies.

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Then you've been listening to our Blue
Star Mothers today right here on our

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community connection on K one. The