Word: reconnections
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other thing that struck me was how removed most Americans are from the troops," Wilpon says. "Most people don't think much about the war. When I was a kid during World War II, we were always being asked to do something for the troops. I wanted to reconnect the public with the military...
...major soft-drink companies agreed to withdraw all high-calorie sodas from schools by 2009. In Arizona, the Pima tribe of Native Americans, which has some of the highest obesity levels in the world, is growing school gardens in the desert to supply cafeterias with fresh vegetables and reconnect kids to a traditional cuisine. Today at least 17 states have set nutritional standards for school meals that are stricter than those demanded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...least they're not fighting alone: Kennedy's promise to "not forget" is honored by every town that welcomes home its National Guard unit by helping members reconnect; by the ingenuity of groups like Sew Much Comfort, which provides "adaptive clothing" for vets with burns and other injuries, casts and prostheses. Mental-health professionals volunteer through Give an Hour to treat vets for free; pro bono lawyers help them navigate the dense disability-benefits maze. But private charity can't replace a public commitment to finish what we start, to do the long, hard, expensive work of making soldiers whole...
...their elders, juniors have now established their own Junior Bar. “My friends and I started it up on a whim,” said Jade M. Reichling ’09, one of Junior Bar’s founders. “Senior Bar is to reconnect with all the seniors. Why wait until senior year when we can do more reconnecting and bonding starting junior year?“ Largely organized by Facebook, Junior Bar encourages juniors—although students not in the Class of 2009 are also welcome—to go to bars...
...with a long shot of Bill Clinton - his once shaggy hair now an aura of white - driving down a lonely East Texas road. He was born not far from there, across the state line in Arkansas, and from 1972 onward, he has nursed the belief that he might somehow reconnect the working-class whites of that region to the Democratic Party. Scant luck so far. But he was still at it in advance of the Texas vote, stumping through places like Tyler and Lufkin and Texarkana and Nacogdoches - proving that the Clintons still believe in a place called Hope...