Politics & Government
First Lady Commends Military Kids for Their Service
"Many of you have had to put on a brave face for maybe a younger brother or sister, even when you were worried," Obama said. "You've had to reassure your parents that you were OK, even when sometimes you weren't."
During First Lady Michelle Obama's two-day tour to mark the first anniversary of Joining Forces, she commended military children everywhere that endure the sacrifices of military life often involving relocation and deployed parents.
She met with the teenage daughters of service members, at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville on April 12, and presented them each with $250 department store gift cards acknowledging them for the times in the past or future when there will be an empty seat at their high school graduation, and moms and dads who aren’t home to see them off to the prom.
“It can’t be easy,” she said in a Defense News Service report, “… to keep your spirits up through all those missed holidays, and missed birthdays, and times when you would give anything in the world to have them back home.”
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Obama's initiative, “Joining Forces”, is a campaign she started with the Vice President's wife, Jill Biden, to help civilian Americans support military families through a greater understanding of what they go through.
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