Honoring Those Who Serve

Veterans Day puts a face to the freedoms we enjoy in this country. It puts a face to those men and women who sacrifice so much for the freedoms large and small that we all too often take for granted. The faces of American veterans are those images of our grandparents and parents, our brothers and sisters, our children and grandchildren. They are all too often the gentle faces of young men and women who have volunteered to protect us with their very lives.

Two years ago Believe In Tomorrow embarked on an initiative to greatly increase our service to active military personnel who have children in medical crisis. I am enormously proud of Believe In Tomorrow’s Military Housing Initiative. It is an opportunity to show our gratitude and support to veterans while fulfilling our core mission of helping sick children. It is the right thing to do, and we are dedicated to expanding this effort to serve as many families as we possibly can. I have had the opportunity to meet many of these families and I am always impressed by their strength of character and their courage.

The American Freedom Foundation is holding a Veterans Day concert at Constitution Hall and they have named Believe In Tomorrow as one the beneficiaries of the event. Martina McBride and Darryl Worley are performing at this year’s concert on November the 10^th, which honors our military veterans. We feel that it is quite an honor for Believe In Tomorrow to be recognized for the work that we have been doing and we want to thank the American Freedom Foundation for all the wonderful work they do to support these efforts.

I opened the paper this morning to read about a young man who grew up near where I live. The Pentagon announced yesterday that Staff Sgt. Joseph F. Curreri, a 27-year-old Green Beret in the Army’s Special Forces, died last week while on a training mission in the Philippines. I never had the honor of meeting Mr. Curreri, but I will be thinking of him and his family this Veterans Day and thanking him for his service and sacrifice to our country. I will think of all of those brave veterans who have gone before and of all of those who are serving today. I will be thinking of my oldest son Ryan, who is a Marine officer training to be a pilot. And, I will be asking God to bless each and every one of them.

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