YDA Interim Executive Director Christine Pelosi offers her thoughts to Politico about Memorial Day 2011:
“…Yet for today’s military, including over 1.7 million minor children with a parent serving in the military or the 200,000 unemployed veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan or the Blue and Gold Star families, there is no gauzy past but a very grim present. America remains at war, with physical and mental wounds suffered daily. This relatively small percentage of families bear the burden for all of us. Few of us can imagine what it is like to hear the phone ring or see the message indicator flash and wonder if this is a stoic hello or tragic news. On Memorial Day 2011 we can empathize and act…”
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