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"Since the first months of the Iraq War in 2003, soldiers deployed from Fort Hood knew they’d always be sent off and welcomed home with a hug.
She’s known to them as the “Hug Lady,” and for the last 12 years she’s been a calming, constant presence for men and women for which little else is certain. Not quite five-feet tall she’d wrap her arms around the ones leaving for overseas, and offer words of faith and encouragement. When they came home, she was there waiting to hug them again.
Elizabeth Laird has given hundreds of thousands of hugs. Now she needs them herself.
Laird, 83, has quietly battled breast cancer for the last decade, something most of her soldier family didn’t know. Her cancer has spread and she’s been in the hospital since last week. Her son, Richard Dewees, said dozens of soldiers have filtered through her hospital room to return her words of faith and encouragement, and of course, her hugs.".....>
"Since the first months of the Iraq War in 2003, soldiers deployed from Fort Hood knew they’d always be sent off and welcomed home with a hug.
She’s known to them as the “Hug Lady,” and for the last 12 years she’s been a calming, constant presence for men and women for which little else is certain. Not quite five-feet tall she’d wrap her arms around the ones leaving for overseas, and offer words of faith and encouragement. When they came home, she was there waiting to hug them again.
Elizabeth Laird has given hundreds of thousands of hugs. Now she needs them herself.
Laird, 83, has quietly battled breast cancer for the last decade, something most of her soldier family didn’t know. Her cancer has spread and she’s been in the hospital since last week. Her son, Richard Dewees, said dozens of soldiers have filtered through her hospital room to return her words of faith and encouragement, and of course, her hugs.".....>