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Allison Miles, Victoria Advocate
A smile spread across Alexis Scott’s lips as she came face to face with the whooping, cheering crowd. She stepped off the bus and made her way forward limping – but less so than she once did.
“I’ve never seen anything like what they do here,” she said of the flag-lined entrance into Faith Family Church, where she shook hands and accepted hugs along the way. “I’ve never seen this kind of support.”
Scott was among the more than 700 wounded soldiers and their families who made their way out for the kickoff to Victoria’s seventh Warrior’s Weekend.
The event offers those wounded in the military the chance to enjoy a weekend of fishing and camaraderie with their families and fellow servicemen and women.
This year’s Warrior’s Weekend is the biggest one yet, said Mike Petrash, director of the event’s Field of Honor. Not only did the 700 attendees break previous years’ records, but the Field of Honor did as well.
(Read more of this story at The Victoria Advocate)
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