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Clarksville Citizens help The Houck Family

(Clarksville, TN) – Props to our community for getting behind this family and helping out. If you missed the story that broke a few days ago, The Pentagon identifies 3 Fort Campbell soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Samantha Houck’s Husband, Sgt. Eric M. Houck, 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, was one of them. Fabiola Pimentel has since started a Meal Train for the family so that local families can help with food. The link can be found here. https://twitter.com/beaver1003/status/875694051307245568 Lauren Cox of Maryland also started a Go Fund Me to help the family.   The page  has currently reached $23,487 of the $35,000 goal. If you have any info or updates to this story or any info to pass along to add please email it to me so that we can update the story. -> nfox@5starradio.com https://twitter.com/beaver1003/status/875699833142747137  

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