Monday, September 13, 2010

Military Children Need Less?

I saw this yesterday and wondered how it could be, with all the good will toward military families that seems to exist today, that this high-profile and successful program has to worry about funding.  Why can't we text a contribution to causes affecting military children and have it put on our phone bill?  We can do what we put our minds to as a nation.  Why not make everyone's children our own?

Operation Purple in Jeopardy

September 03, 2010
PR Newswire
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Nation prepares for the unofficial wind up of summer 2010, 10,000 children of active duty military service members are in jeopardy of losing one of the largest private programs helping them cope with the lengthy and repeated deployments of their parents. Without funding from the private sector in the coming months, Operation Purple Camps will not be around in the summer of 2011, according to the National Military Family Association, which runs the program in nearly 70 locations in more than 30 states.
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2 comments:

  1. KathleenSeptember 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM

    I had not heard of this, thank you for posting. I wonder what we can do to draw attention to this? I am a co-author of books for military children and am acquainted with the purple camps.
    I am interested in your book, and appreciate your desire to call attention to the needs of these children. As the mother of an Army Sgt. and the grandmother of two military kids, I know it is not easy to grow up without a parent who is serving our nation.

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  2. About AARTSeptember 17, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    Kathleen--thanks for writing. I'm getting a lot out of keeping this blog, and I am glad you have found it. Please keep in touch!

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