Windy City Veterans and the Meaning of Giving
“By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.” Senator Barack Obama
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/29/politics/fromtheroad/entry4556317.shtml
No Senator, that is called charity – the act of giving. It is an individual thing. You give your peanut butter sandwich to someone else.
Giving is what America’s Veterans are all about. When they were 17 or 18 years old, like Senator John McCain was when he entered Annapolis, these kids gave themselves body and soul to their Country.
Many of them went to war. The men and women who fought WWII are dying at a rate of 1,500 souls per day. The Veterans of Korea are stepping into their boots, along with the Veterans of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They are making sure that ... Read More...
