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Marine corporal Cleve Kinsey, 23, left, and lance corporal Kyle Riley, 21, relax in their penthouse suite at the Venetian hotel-casino Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Las Vegas. Both Kinsey and Riley were wounded in separate instances in Operation Iraqi freedom. Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam welcomed 40 injured service members from Walter Reed and National Naval Medical Center to a complimentary holiday weekend at the Venetian. The Armed Forces Foundation organized the trip.

Army specialist Matthew "Doc" Reilly and his wife Katherine relax on an outdoor patio at the Venetian hotel-casino Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Las Vegas.

Marine corporal Kyle Riley, 21, and his fiancee Alyssa Mergler, 21, are shown in their penthouse suite at the Venetian hotel-casino Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Las Vegas. Riley was wounded while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam welcomed 40 injured service members from Walter Reed and National Naval Medical Center to a complimentary holiday weekend at the Venetian. The Adelsons have volunteered to give the couple an all-expense paid wedding on Memorial Day tomorrow at the Venetian.

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God bless patriotic and caring Americans like the Adelsons.

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~~PING!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Thank God there are still men like these soldiers and Marines, and also patriotic Americans that support them! We need to support this gaming company with our business if so inclined...

From Wiki:

Philanthropic gifts and Political Involvement

Adelson currently has funded over $25,000,000 to the M.I.S Hebrew Academy in Las Vegas to build a high school. Currently, the high school has a 9th and 10th grade and will add more grades annually.

In 2005, Adelson was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.[10] [11] [12]

In 2006 Adelson contributed $25,000,000 to the organization Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish youth trips to Israel. The gift is anticipated to be given annually for the foreseeable future [13]

In 2007 Adelson founded Freedom’s Watch, a group that advocates America’s continued involvement in the war in Iraq, and is run and supported, in part, by former officials of the Bush administration. Also in 2007, Adelson pledged another $25,000,000 to the Birthright Israel program, allowing for approximately 20,000 people to take part in the program. [14]

Adelson also has funded the Boston based Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation. AMRF is a private foundation committed to a model of open and highly integrated collaboration among outstanding investigators who participate in goal-directed basic and clinical research to prevent, reduce or eliminate disabling and life-threatening illness. [15]

This foundation initiated the Adelson Program in Neural Repair and Rehabilitation (APNRR) with $7.5 million donated to collaborating researchers at 10 universities. [16] Adelson has publicly pledged billions to medical research and has encouraged researchers to contact AMRF with ideas that need to be funded.

[uglybiker]

They planned to wed Monday on a gold and white gondola, courtesy of Adelson, whom Mergler said insisted on having his staff handle the plans.

What?!

C'mon! This is Vegas! Bring out the Elvis impersonators! :-P

[Syncro]

Well this is cool!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Nice, average kids.

Just good, giving, duty-bound Americans.

Can see it on their faces and in their eyes.

[Tex Pete]

Very awesome gesture for very deserving warriors. All involved are to be commended.

[WVKayaker]

Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and one of the wealthiest men in the world, is an important financial backer of a number of individuals and organizations who promote hardline security policies for the United States and Israel. He is a member of the Board of Directors the conservative Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and a financial supporter of Freedom's Watch, a neoconservative-aligned advocacy outfit created in 2007 to push public support for an aggressive U.S. posture on Iran and continued U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Through his charitable foundation he funds Israeli causes and groups. He has reportedly also tried to influence Israeli policy away from negotiating a peace with the Palestinians.... more here...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

thanks for posting...

I wish they would televise the wedding of corporal Rile and his fiancee..that would be awesome !

[KingofZion]

I’ve been meaning to stay at the Venetian...they definitely deserve my business now.

[GOP_Lady]

Wow, the Venetian along with everything else. God bless the soldiers and their families and the ones who paid/organized this. I hope they had a great time.

[MonicaG]

Awesome! God bless patriotic and caring Americans like the Adelsons, indeed.

[SevenofNine]

WELL they say that Bugsy Siegel was former Marine Star or Army dude

[Kaslin]

Marine corporal Kyle Riley, 21, and his fiance Alyssa Mergler, 21, are shown in their penthouse suite at the Venetian hotel-casino Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Las Vegas. Riley was wounded while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam welcomed 40 injured service members from Walter Reed and National Naval Medical Center to a complimentary holiday weekend at the Venetian. The Adelsons have volunteered to give the couple an all-expense paid wedding on Memorial Day tomorrow at the Venetian.