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Thursday, September 02, 2010
 Veteran contractor Don Hodge of North Little Rock, Ark., went online to look for a Lenox 3-inch hole saw and came away as this year's winner of the Site Commander Sweepstakes. He picked up the keys to his new truck at the Lenox 301 NASCAR Race in Loudon, N.H., at the end of June.
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 When 1st Lt. Eric "Moose" Petrevich sent me a photo from his deployment in Iraq, I was blown away – not just because I noticed the Tools cover on the workbench next to his slider, but because I read in the accompanying letter about how he and his fellow soldiers use their workshop to build their own weapons racks and body-armor stands to make life a little easier "in the big sandbox," as he calls it. And I loved hearing about how soldiers in his unit fight over each copy of Tools that Lt. Petrevich receives. Hoo-ah, Lieutenant – I'll send extras next time.
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