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Operation Chocolate Chip Cookie featured in Wctrib.com video

The West Central Tribune has posted a video about Operation Chocolate Chip Cookies in memory of New London's soldier Ryane Clark. Clark was killed Oct. 4 in Afghanstan and was buried Oct. 17. Members of the community baked Chocolate Chip cookies,...

A token of appreciation — Mary Jane Schmitz, left, and Gloria Monson help pack 14,000 chocolate chip cookies into boxes Monday at Peace Lutheran Church in New London. The cookies will be sent to troops in Afghanistan in honor of Pfc. Ryane Clark. Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange

By WCT Newsroom

October 22, 2010 at 7:40 AM

The West Central Tribune has posted a video about Operation Chocolate Chip Cookies in memory of New London's soldier Ryane Clark.

Clark was killed Oct. 4 in Afghanstan and was buried Oct. 17.

Members of the community baked Chocolate Chip cookies, Clark's favorite, for his funeral. The response provide so many cookies that the extra were boxed up and shipped to Afghanistan for U.S. soldiers serving there.

Go to the embedded video below or click on this link to the video: http://tinyurl.com/26pcdn8 .