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     COMMENTS: Attendant Loves Men in Uniform

ABC, graciously, balanced all this negative publicity for Northwest Airlines with a positive closing feature on Delta, its corporate sibling. Delta Airlines flight attendant Robin Schmidt was granted ABC's Person of the Week accolade for boosting the morale of members of the military deployed overseas. Over the past seven years she has adopted 73 different soldiers to receive personalized care packages and messages of support. She urges her Delta passengers to write "words of encouragement, prayers, draw pictures, tell jokes" to her designated GI. "The gifts are great," reported ABC's Bob Woodruff, "but soldiers say it is the journals that really hit home."

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