See Your Soldier home

Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, wives, and children who had not seen their loved ones in person in months have gotten the next best thing, as more than 630 family members have participated in free, private videoconferencing sessions that allowed them to see and talk to soldiers stationed at Camp Al Asad and Camp Taji/Cooke in Iraq.

We are now accepting registration for the See Your Soldier event for January 8 and 9, 2008.  You can register here.

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Corporal Kevin Bein (on screen), a third generation Marine serving with an air unit at Camp Al-Asad, talks with family members from the Champaign area, including his uncle, an Illinois National Guardsman who has himself recently returned from Iraq, and his grandfather, Ed Bein Sr, also a veteran.

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Agricultural Consumer & Environmental Sciences University of Illinois Extension