First Lady Michelle Obama and Doctor Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, attended the launch of ‘MISSION SERVE: Forging A Continuum Of Service’ at George Washington University in Washington, DC yesterday (November 11).
More than 50 organizations have come together on a mission to serve, offering the opportunity to bridge the gap from military to civilian life for returning servicemembers by allowing them to apply their military skills to civilian service.
Mrs. Obama expressed her appreciation for America’s military servicemembers, saying: “One of the greatest privileges that I have as first lady is the chance to meet with veterans, and to meet with servicemembers, and their families all across America. And I have to tell you, I always come away from every single visit with this sense of pride, and gratitude — but also with a sense of awe. True awe.”
She continued, “All of these men and women, they joined our armed forces because they love this country so much that they’re willing to give everything they have to protect it. And that commitment, it doesn’t just disappear when they return to civilian life… For many of these folks, service is the air they breathe. It’s the reason they were put here on this Earth. And they don’t just want to serve for a certain number of years of deployment — they want to make their entire life a tour of duty.”
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If you really want to honor them, either fight to win or bring them home.
Waffling on the “Just War” is killing coalition troops too along with americans.
Awesome! These women are great role models for all Americans.
Michelle attends the opening of an envelope. What an attention whore.
Look, it’s Michelle with a warm genuine smile. Seriously, can’t she work on that!
the obamas hate america.
barack didn’t even know the difference between memorial day and veterans day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh6Gx1KrvTw
Adam, you are an imbecile!
Go and watch FAUX NEWS!
Bring the troops home RIGHT NOW !!! Terrorist training camps are in many countries and they move around all the time–we can’t get them–waste of lives,time and money. Every military commander in history wanted more troops !!! We had 500,000 in Nam and never came close to victory.( I was there) GET OUT NOW !!! The Afgan peoples’ ONLY cash crop is Opium–try to cut it off and they will hate us forever. No “hearts and Minds” going to happen there. GET OUT NOW !!! I could go on but will stop here. Thanks for reading.
Obama is ten times worse than bush.
Magilla is such a genuine person.
To say Obama is worse than Bush jusy shows your complete ignorance in domestic and international affairs!
Do you know what Halliburton is?
Do you know what “deregulation” is?
Do you know how much the war costs?
Do you think the dinosaurs were pets to humans as the bible people say!?
Clueless republican idiot!
Obambi just had his first of many terrorist attacks on US soil and in none other than FT. Hood a military installation.
Yet he or his lamestream media can’t get themselves to see the obvious.
THE FIRST JIHADIST ATTACK ON AMERICA SINCE 911.
rip ft. hood victims of terrorism errrrr I mean “man made disaster”
the devil, you’ve really fallen off.
“i see many of our nation’s fallen heroes
before me in these 57 states of america.”
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