Kansas City Sends Gloves for Rescuers
From leather gloves to teddy bears, Americans across the country were donating what they could to help New Yorkers cope with the terrorist attacks that have debilitated the city.
Thousands of miles from the mountain of rubble that once was the World Trade Center, volunteers in Kansas City were filling boxes with leather gloves to ship to the firefighters and other rescue workers picking through the ruins.
Since late Wednesday, hundreds of pairs of new leather gloves have been sent to collection points around the city and in Wichita, Kan.
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