On Black Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving, Leanne Pressley of Rock Hill might have seemed like any other shopper at Rock Hill’s Galleria, hunting for bargains for her kids and her husband. But Pressley is different from most shoppers. Her husband, Colin Pressley, is a warrant officer with Rock Hill’s 178th Army National Guard unit. He and 160 other area soldiers spent Thanksgiving and Christmas 2012 in Afghanistan. Leanne Pressley spent that year-long deployment helping take care of other soldiers’ families. As a key figure in the unit’s Family Readiness Group, she and other wives, mothers and children sent hundreds of care packages to soldiers in...
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