Community Corner
Uniting America: Empowering Veterans
The community event will be at Worcester Technical High School on March 21. It is free and open to the public.
From the Sword and Spoon Group: Jean Kingston and the Sword & Spoon Foundation are launching the “Uniting America” initiative with its first event, hosting Karen Vaughn, gold star mother and author of World Changer: A Mother's Story. She will speak about empowering veterans and other important veteran issues. The event will be at Worcester Technical High School, 1 Skyline Drive on March 21st from 6 - 8 p.m. It is a free event and open to the public.
“We are very pleased to welcome Karen Vaughn to Massachusetts to launch our Uniting America series,” Jean Kingston said. “When we consider the importance of taking care of our veterans, this is clearly not a Democratic issue nor a Republican issue, but an American issue. John and I have always considered this one of our top priorities through the years — we have to act individually as citizens and through our government to take care of the people who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.”
This speaker event is the first of nonpartisan public conversations across Massachusetts to spotlight areas where our commonwealth and nation are in need of healing and restoration. Among other key issues, the Uniting America series will address:
• Empowering Our Veterans
• Working for Racial Reconciliation
• Establishing Civility in Public Life
• Inspiring the Next Generation
• Easing the Foster Care & Adoption Crisis in America • Supporting Our First Responders
• Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in America
• Providing Educational Opportunity for All
• Rethinking Mass Incarceration
National leaders like Karen Vaughn will share fresh insights into these challenges. Our state and national partners will share their inspiring and effective work towards healing and restoration.
“American war fighters are beautifully unique in their cause. They do not fight because they hate what’s in front of them. They fight because they love what’s behind them,” said Karen Vaughn. “It is small thing indeed to ask of those of us who stand cloaked in the freedom born of their sacrifice, to honor and protect those heroes when they return broken and bloodied to our soil.”
The Uniting America Initiative is sponsored Sword & Spoon Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded by Jean and John Kingston in 2005, with the primary mission to invest in partnership to encourage ideas and action in advance of the common good.
For more information on these events and our scheduled speakers, please visit:
UnitingAmerica.us.
Image via Shutterstock, flyer image via the Sword and Spoon Group
