In e-mails home, the Marine - stationed in Afghanistan on his fifth tour of duty in a war zone - described long days of work in the sweltering desert. But during officers' time off, they had little to do.
They didn't even have any balls to throw around for a simple game of catch.
"They get pretty bored," Vogel said.
So the Millersville man decided to do something about it. Two months ago, he set out to collect balls, bats, catcher's mitts and other equipment so Seipt and his fellow Marines in the 1st Division...
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