We were able to send out checks to our partner organizations today. Today we sent: COPS: $262.00 Operation Gratitude: $246.00 Army Wife Netw: $78.00 Packages From Home: $436.00 Marine Corps Association Foundation: $584.00 Military Order of the Purple Heart: $1016.00 Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund: $2014.00 Gold Star Mothers: $618
By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 – First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, today marked the one-year anniversary of the Joining Forces campaign by celebrating the individuals and organizations that have stepped up in “extraordinary ways” to improve military families’ lives. In brief remarks, Dempsey noted the importance of supporting troops and their families. Service members are “pillars of American strength … ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 17, 2012) -- President Barack Obama has announced that Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr., a rifleman with the 101st Airborne Division, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor May 16 for his actions during the Vietnam War. Sabo is credited with saving the lives of several of his comrades in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry when his platoon was ambushed May 10, 1970, near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia. Sabo shielded a comrade from an enemy grenad...
We experienced this last Friday afternoon. It's an experience that will stay with me forever. I've found more on this monthly tradition within the halls of The Pentagon... Here's a piece I found from the Wall Street Journal and another piece I found from a songwriter. --------- WASHINGTON -- Cpl. Kenny Lyon's mother pushed his wheelchair down a narrow Pentagon hallway, crying as she listened to the applause. Hundreds of Defense Department employees lined the corridor, cheering for Cpl. Lyon a...
Friday the 13th turned out to be very lucky. We were invited to a private tour of The Pentagon. We were in DC on other business and a good friend's mother works in the Pentagon. She's a Lieutenant in the Air Force and she was able to give us time for the full tour. And we just happened to be there on the monthly welcome to the Wounded Warriors. Every month a group of combat wounded Service Members are brought to The Pentagon for a welcome and luncheon. It was, perhaps, one of the most powerfu...
