ENDURING GRATITUDE INC

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IN 2010 A GROUP FROM THE HIGH POINT AREA DISCUSSED THE DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG MEN and WOMEN RETURNING FROM OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, OUR THEN CURRENT OPERATIONS IN IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN. OUR SOLDIERS, MARINES, SAILORS and AIRMEN ARE ENGAGED IN THE LONGEST WAR IN THE HISTORY of THE UNITED STATES and THE SIZE of OUR FIGHTING FORCE is THE SMALLEST IT HAS BEEN IN RECENT HISTORY. AS A RESULT, OUR SERVICEMEN and WOMEN WERE EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE DEPLOYMENTS; SOME AS MANY AS TEN WITH THREE or FOUR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THIS TIME PERIOD BEING COMMON. MANY of THESE WHOVE SERVED MULTIPLE DEPLOYMENTS ARE NATIONAL GUARD and RESERVE, and NOT EVEN FULL TIME SOLDIERS. THOUSANDS of FIRST LITTLE LEAGUE GAMES, DANCE RECITALS, BIRTHS, and OTHER MILESTONE OCCASIONS IN THEIR LIVES and THE LIVES of THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN MISSED. AS CITIZENS WHO APPRECIATE THE SACRIFICES and EFFORTS of THESE BRAVE YOUNG MEN and WOMEN, THE GROUP FORMED ENDURING GRATITUDE WWW.ENDURINGGRATITUDE.ORG, A 501C3 CHARITABLE