Stuffed animals may be given by [[emergency]] [[medical]] services workers, police, and others to [[victims]] of [[disasters]] such as fires and [[crime]]. After the [[911|September 11]] [[attack]]s, writes Marita Sturken in Tourists of History, "the Oklahoma City National Memorial sent six hundred teddy bears and then the state of Oklahoma sent sixty thousand stuffed [[animals]] to New York, which were [[distributed]] to [[children]] in schools affected by 9/11, [[family]] [[support]] [[organizations]], and New York fire stations." | Stuffed animals may be given by [[emergency]] [[medical]] services workers, police, and others to [[victims]] of [[disasters]] such as fires and [[crime]]. After the [[911|September 11]] [[attack]]s, writes Marita Sturken in Tourists of History, "the Oklahoma City National Memorial sent six hundred teddy bears and then the state of Oklahoma sent sixty thousand stuffed [[animals]] to New York, which were [[distributed]] to [[children]] in schools affected by 9/11, [[family]] [[support]] [[organizations]], and New York fire stations." |