When he visited the troops at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo in June, I think, I realized how we had completely forgotten our servicemen and women over there. Young people who were putting their lives on the line for us in a dangerous part of the world. Whether we believed in the commitment America had made there or not, those service members had had to go. And we had forgotten them.
When President Bush told them how important their service was and how their example of the American way was doing so much good in teaching the people there that it was possible to live in peace despite differences, there was such a hush. The faces of the soldiers were so hungry for some approval and thanks and meaning that I wept.
And that is how this began. I asked my cousin, an Army Colonel, what to send, what to do, and he pointed me in the direction we are going now.