LAFAYETTE — An Indiana State University student and her mother are responsible for collecting 23,000 teddy bears for troops based all over the world.
Faith Killian-Fassnacht passed the duties on her to mother this year now that she’s at college. Rosanna Fassnacht on Saturday prepared about 300 teddy bears to be shipped to active-duty service members. The 12-year initiative is called Bear Hugs to Troops. Killian-Fassnacht started the effort when she was 9.
Each of the bears is dressed as a superhero and carries a hand-written letter to a soldier. This year the teddy bears were donated and decorated by students in New Jersey whose librarian heard about the program.
