"NEIL BLAKE | nblake@mdn.netCraig Pickelman, a director at Wilson MIILER Funeral Home, passes a box of Christmas stockings to Sgt. Thomas Peeler at the National Guard Armory in Midland on Wednesday. This is the third year that the funeral home collected items from residents for Christmas stockings to give to soldiers. ""It means the world to us,"" Peeler said. Peeler returned from a deployment to Afghanistan eight months ago and said that the little things mean a lot to soldiers. Photo: Neil Blake/Midland  Daily News"
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