Some News Excerpts
"When shock thins into grief for the survivors 'Operation
TeddyCare' will be there."
Half Moon Bay Review
Teddy Bears Step In As Symbol of
Solace
By Steve Rubenstein
(San Francisco) Chronicle Staff
Writer
The stuffed animal cargo
represented donations from people all across the nation to Operation
TeddyCare, a drive undertaken by Moss Beach psychotherapist Bob Baker
and his wife, children's book author Barbara Moran.
Baker and Moran are collecting more bears to send to
Oklahoma.
"Operation TeddyCare was a
monumental effort which Barbara Moran handled splendidly and which
enabled Dr. Bear to bring hope into the terribly aching hearts of
those whose lives were spared but whose ways of life were utterly
destroyed."
--from Bear Tracks, a Teddy Bear
enthusiasts' publication
"Baker and his wife, Barbara, spearheaded a
campaign that collected more than 10,000 teddy bears from Americans
throughout the United States. For Baker, a former combat Marine,
tending to the children of Kobe helped him close a circle begun more
than two decades ago when the Vietnamese war orphans his unit adopted
in Hue were massacred by Northern troops.
"'There's a part of us that has experienced the immersion
in death, and we know there is help because we've been through it,' Baker said.
'We want to share that. '"
--from The Los Angeles Times
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