‘The USO is My Family’: USO/RP/6 Connects Service Member to Community During Holiday Visit
Video by Sandi Moynihan and Eric Brandner
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee—Tonya Wacker didn’t expect to end up in tears during a USO holiday hospital visit last December. Then she walked into the injured soldier’s room.
“He said, ‘You know, I feel like I’m losing everything,’” Wacker said. “So I said, ‘Well, you know we have a new program, a military transition program’… and he was really excited.”
Wacker, the Fort Campbell USO RP/6 site manager, later offered the soldier a phone to call home and talk to his family.
The solider politely refused.
“He said, ‘I don’t need a phone … the USO is my family,’” Wacker said.
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