SPOTLIGHT

This NPR interview really resonated with me.  Please take one minute to read - it will brighten your day and hopefully refocus your priorities if needed!

It's a segment from the Patt Morrison show on NPR.  It aired last week.  Patt is interviewing Donovan Campbell, an author of Joker One: A Marine Platoons' Story of Courage, Leadership and Brotherhood

Campbell served three combat deployments—two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan; he was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon and a Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq, and recently promoted to Captain. He is no longer active in the Marines.

A blogger asks the author what we can do to help the troops from home.  

Here is a transcript from a portion of the interview....

Patt Morrison: 93KPCC is how you can talk to Donovan Campbell.  He is the author of Joker One: a Marine platoon story of courage, leadership and brotherhood.  You can also ask questions on the blog at KPCC.org.  

Kirk has a blog point: "beyond trying, he says, to be responsible voters offering deep gratitude and trying to be well informed, what do you think citizens can do that would be meaningful to the troops?"

 Donovan Campbell: You know what, I have a kind of strange perspective on this but I think what citizens can do that can be meaningful to the troops is to serve each other back here in America - especially now, when times are hard for so many people.

 I think, if overseas (the troops), know that back home people are regularly pitching in at soup kitchens,

or they’re donating money to charity even though it pains them to do that,

if they’re helping teach their neighbor how to budget so that they can avoid foreclosure on their home, if they’re serving as mentors in underprivileged areas,

I think those things mean far more to us, far more to the troops, than does a simple care package filled with Kleenex.

And our nation, I think, is in a tough time but we have a unique opportunity to turn and help each other and serve each other in a way that perhaps we didn’t when we were more affluent.

Listen to entire interview at this link: 

http://tinyurl.com/ck4ul7