Robert Franklin, Star Tribune
July 11, 2005 FUND0711

A who's who of the state's political and business leaders is trying to raise as much as $10 million in private funds to make grants to Minnesota combat troops and their survivors.

The idea is to start a broad grass-roots and corporate campaign that will offer grants of $500 to $1,000 to every Minnesota military man and woman who has been in a combat zone since 9/11, with perhaps $10,000 going to each wounded person and $15,000 to survivors of those killed, depending on the amount raised.

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