Also, you should know that Michelle Obama has been meeting with military spouses during her travels. One such event was covered by the Army Times. Plus, a short video was made.
Michelle Obama meets with military spouses
Friday Aug 8, 2008 12:00:35 EDTNORFOLK, Va. – When Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, held a roundtable with military spouses and retirees here on Wednesday, she got an earful – and said that if her husband is elected, he has a plan to help them.
Six military spouses and three retired officers participated in the roundtable with Obama on the campus of Old Dominion University here, with about 200 invited retirees, veterans and spouses in the audience. Most were invited because they were volunteers with the Obama campaign, or were invited by someone in the Obama campaign, said campaign officials and some of the attendees interviewed by Military Times.
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She said she is inspired by “the extent to which these spouses don’t complain.”“They are proud of their service, they are proud to be a part of the military, and they don’t want anyone to feel sorry for them,” she said. “They are doing the best they can do to support each other and to keep it together. And most of them are amazingly keeping it together.
“Even with that said, the thing I always tell people when they tell me that is, [it] still isn’t right. We still need to talk about it so that people are aware and we can make the changes, and understand the full cost of war. I think most of America would understand that. It’s just that I don’t think we know.
“We need to learn and listen and then support funding. When we think about going to war, we have to think about things like this. How many troops do we deploy? How do we deploy them? How do we do it in a way that doesn’t debilitate families? What do we do to support those families? What does that cost?”
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