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By Anonymous August 7, 2004 -- Rhode Islanders love home. It's a place where people spend up their entire lives in the same neighborhood. They go to school with the same kids, marry the girl next door, buy a home down the street, and raise their own children to love Rhode Island the way they do.
US military service takes many of these men and women away from home for the first time. MRE's don't replace great Rhode Island cooking -- chowder and clamcakes and fresh-caught lobster. It's impossible to find a Del's lemonade in Afganistan or Federal Hill Italian food in Korea.
And as wonderful as foreign lands and people are, they're still not home.
Many servicemen have subscribed to Rhode Island Roads Magazine online to remember the Ocean State.
"We have a significant number of subscribers in the Middle East," says Paul Pence, the managing editor of Rhode Island Roads. "At first, we thought that Rhode Island tourism might appeal to the people of the region, but after some investigation, we discovered that the subscribers there were almost all US military and other expatriates."
Close to 10% of the magazine's subscribers are military personnel who are stationed away from home. "Rhode Islanders get homesick," Pence says. "It's easy to fall in love with a wonderful place like this."
Rhode Island Roads Magazine -- http://riroads.com -- now charges for subscriptions, but subscriptions to the online magazine for all US Military personnel will remain free.
"They do so much to keep our country safe," Pence explains. "We're proud to do what we can to make their difficult work a little easier."
If you know of a serviceman who misses Rhode Island, let him know that there's a little bit of the Ocean State waiting for him online.
Rhode Island Roads Magazine features monthly articles on travel, live, dining, and entertainment in Rhode Island. It's published online at http://riroads.com
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