 While campaigning with her husband, First Lady Michelle Obama encountered military wives all across the country. She remarked on that experience in Parade Magazine: "Everywhere I went there were military spouses, and their stories took my breath away - the pain of multiple deployments, trying to keep the family afloat. I remember sitting down and crying with them."
Vice-presidential spouse Jill Biden's son was deployed to Iraq with the Delaware National Guard in 2008 and 2009, so she knows first hand about the stresses on military families. Based on their experiences, these two powerful women have joined forces to begin making military families feel visible, to encourage the nation to recognize and appreciate them, and to make support for military families ". . . part of the fabric of our country forever." To learn more about this important initiative, go to www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces
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