I’ve given thousands of speeches all across the country about America’s veterans.
But who I’m really talking for is the more than 400,000 fallen Americans, the majority of whom were left in foreign soil or in a watery grave during World War II.
So whether I’m standing on-stage speaking to hundreds or in a personal conversation with a curious young person, I say the same thing: go look up the stories. The real stories, not just what you got from your history book.
Go back to Pont du Hoc and the invasion of Normandy – those were young men climbing straight up a cliff. Go back to the servicemembers who won the war at the Battle of the Bulge, at the cost of more than 19,000 lives lost.
Learn about the war contributions that the government took nearly 50 years to acknowledge: the thousands of women who flew bombers from the assembly lines to U.S. military bases, including the 39 who died serving our country, or the real dangers that those in the Maritime Service who were faced with the mortality rate of 1 out of 26, which was the highest rate in WWII (and then came home to be excluded from the GI Bill until the late 1980s!).
Fellow American, no other organization does as much to honor America’s veterans – and tell our stories in our own words – as the American Veterans Center.
That’s why I’m proud to support them, proud to take part in their excellent programs for veterans, and proud to ask you to join me and my friends at the American Veterans Center for our special mission this year.
Please make your most generous gift of $35, $50, $75, $100, or more, today to help support the American Veterans Center's National Memorial Day Parade in this important anniversary year.
