So these people want to take another day of remembrance and turn it into one of their self-serving progressive agendas.

Veterans Day, for gods sake!! A day to honor those Americans who know “Service” better than any one of those “community activists” do-gooders laying out this crap.

Veterans Day will now be a “Service Day” according to the FLOTUS and MrsVP:

Michelle Obama and Jill Biden Join ServiceNation on Veterans Day to launch Mission Serve: Forging a Continuum of ServiceRelease Date: 11/6/2009

Contact:
Elizabeth Wilner, ServiceNation, 202-236-3671, ewilner@bethechangeinc.org
Kelly Whitley, 202-585-2037, kwhitley@powelltate.com

For Immediate Release

First-ever ServiceNation Award for Excellence in Civilian and Military Service to be presented to Alma J. Powell; MTV’s Sway Calloway to emcee

Student Veterans of America, Blue Star Families, military and civilian service leaders celebrate uniting of service organizations in strengthening our nation

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
12 noon - 3:30 p.m. ET

Where: George Washington University
Marvin Center and Lisner Auditorium
21st and H Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Who:

Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States
Alma J. Powell, chair of America’s Promise Alliance
Sway Calloway, MTV News Correspondent
Nicola Goren, Acting CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
“The Telling Project,” a 22-minute performance by college students and recent graduates, including five veterans and one military spouse, who will tell their own stories of service

What:
In honor of Veterans Day, ServiceNation will inaugurate MISSION SERVE: Forging a Continuum of Service, a network of 36 initiatives partnering civilian and military service organizations to meet the critical needs of our nation, troops, military families, and veterans. Bank of America is a proud program partner of MISSION SERVE. Event details include:

Ceremony (Lisner Auditorium, 2 p.m.):
• Remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama on the importance of both civilian and military service in strengthening our communities and advancing our nation.
• Remarks by Dr. Jill Biden on the importance of offering thanks and service to veterans, military service members, and their families.

• Presentation of the first annual ServiceNation Award for Excellence in Military and Civilian Service to Alma Powell for a lifetime of service to our children, communities and our country.

• Release of the report, “All Volunteer Force: From Military to Civilian Service”, the first-ever nationally representative survey of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans.* The report finds that for this new generation of 1.8 million veterans, continued service is likely to help smooth the transitions home. The report was written by Civic Enterprises and underwritten by Target and the Case Foundation.

• Unveiling of 36 civilian-military organization initiatives under the ServiceNation umbrella.

Care Package Assembly for Military Families (Marvin Center, 12 noon):
In partnership with the military family organization Blue Star Families, event participants and George Washington University students will create more than 500 “Thx Box” care packages for families of active-duty military, sponsored by the forthcoming PBS documentary “This Emotional Life” and Target.

Performance of “The Telling Project” (Lisner Auditorium, 3 p.m.):
“The Telling Project” is an acclaimed veteran and civilian collaboration that uses the medium of theater to open up communication between veterans and their communities. In this 22-minute performance, six college students and recent graduates, including five veterans and one military spouse, will tell their own dramatic stories of service.

About: MISSION SERVE: Forging a Continuum of Service will activate people engaged in
volunteer and military service across America to more closely coordinate our civilian service and military communities, enabling each to strengthen the other and, ultimately, to strengthen our nation. The initiative partners the ServiceNation coalition’s community service organizations with veterans groups, military family groups, and active-duty and reserve components of each military branch. These partnerships will more closely integrate service to country with service to community, and will help grow the service movement that is critical to America’s future success. Bank of America is proud to support MISSION SERVE as a means of enhancing service opportunities for military and civilians.

ServiceNation is a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate service as a core ideal and problem-solving strategy in American society. Reaching an estimated 100 million citizens through its 250 member groups, ServiceNation played a leading role in the drafting and April 2009 enactment of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which authorizes the greatest expansion of national service in America since FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps. Now that the Act has passed, the ServiceNation coalition is working to inspire a powerful culture of volunteerism in our country. We envision an America in which a commonly asked question is, “Where do you serve?” For more information, visit www.servicenation.org.

About Service Nation:

ServiceNation is the first campaign of Be the Change, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening American democracy by uniting citizens, social entrepreneurs, the service world and leaders from every sector of American society. Be the Change taps the wisdom, experience, and networks of these practitioners and thought leaders to craft post-partisan policy solutions to our greatest challenges and build powerful coalitions to advocate for them.

Be The Change:

When President Harry Truman was headed home to Missouri after finishing his term in the White House, a reporter asked him what it was like to be leaving the highest office in the land. Without missing a beat, Truman replied: “I am not leaving the highest office. I am assuming the highest office, that of citizen.”

The vision for Be the Change, Inc. is an America in which every citizen aspires to that highest office, by working shoulder to shoulder with one another, by actively participating in the conversations, debates and elections which set public policy, by taking responsibility for the democracy we all share. If each of us can achieve this, if each of us can fully assume the highest office of citizen and devote ourselves to the idea of a common interest and a common destiny, then perhaps as a nation we can move past partisan gridlock and the sense that ordinary citizens have no real voice in our democracy. And if we can do that we can begin the important work of addressing together our greatest challenges as a nation.

We can’t wait for it. If we want change, we must be the change. Accordingly, Be the Change, Inc. has three core missions:

* Crafting a bold and innovative policy agenda that is rooted in the practical experience of social entrepreneurs and civic leaders and sets a pragmatic, ten-year time horizon for major systemic change
* Building a broad-based, web-fueled, citizens’ movement that will campaign for better public policies and promote active citizenship and citizen democracy, tapping the great idealism and energy of Americans
* Creating coalitions to engage and unify organizations across the country behind non-partisan public policy campaigns that emphasize comprehensive, long-term solutions to critical problems

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Read Volokh’s post about Service Nation from july, 2008:  Good info on how these people work.

http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1216795749.shtml

So typical.

Here’s a post from Greg Baldwin, the president of Volunteer Match at Case Foundation, (one of the underwriters of “the report, “All Volunteer Force: From Military to Civilian Service”, the first-ever nationally representative survey of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans.”    *See above):

Why is it so hard to make people give?

“Well, the easy answer is that it’s hard to make people give because people don’t really want to. The logic is simple and compelling. People don’t give because we are by our nature self-interested creatures pursuing our own survival in a competitive world. Adam Smith and Charles Darwin saw us for what we are: a collection of individuals looking to get ahead, not give back….”

Continue…

Nice…always the glass half-empty for these people.  No one else is ever good - except them.  No one has ever given - except them.  No one knows how to do anything - except them.

“…we are by our nature self-interested creatures…”

I think this statement says more about you than the creatures you speak of, Greg.

They will never understand the American spirit.  I don’t know why they want to live here.

Maybe because it’s safe here - if they tried to pull this nonsense in any one of the socialist countries, they wouldn’t get too far, now would they?

And they have the audacity to try and transform Veterans day??

To get the bad taste out of your mouth, go over to Villainous Company and read this:

Obama Doesn’t “Get” the Military He Commands

“Obama doesn’t “get” the military because with every step they take, whether it’s on prosthetic legs or the steely sinews of a combat hardened Marine, their strength and independence give the lie to his defeatest rhetoric. All those unbowed shoulders, unbeaten spirits and uplifted heads make him profoundly uncomfortable.”

There’s so much more in her post - go on over now.  You’ll feel better.

Thank you!!

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