Medford resident and U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Jim Ewen knows the importance of recognizing and giving back to the people who have served and are serving our country in the Armed Forces.

That’s the reason he’s donated and shipped over 2,000 pounds of homemade beef jerky to troops overseas, and the request for more is growing.

It all started when Ewen sent a care package to his son-in-law who is a Marine and was deployed to Iraq three weeks after marrying Ewen’s daughter.

“Being the family member of a deployed serviceman, it’s stressful so you kind of find ways to keep busy,” Ewen said. “If you know any service man or woman, whether it’s a son, or daughter, or brother, or sister being deployed to a place of war, it’s really stressful on a family.”

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