Next week is Thanksgiving Day. How will you be giving thanks for the blessings of so many freedoms that each of us has served to protect?

SCPO Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:30:55 -0500

I AM NOT PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK. I am interested in learning if there are other RP members who spend their Thanksgiving and Christmas working in "Soup Kitchens," churches, or some type of charity serving meals to the needy and homeless. I discovered a tremendous joy and satisfaction when I started doing this nearly forty years ago. Today, the church where I will be next week I know there are a sizable number of homeless, hungry veterans. Many of them are Native Americans. Over the last several years I've come to know them personally, and we chat just like any bunch of old military buddies do. It has done my heart a tremendous amount of good to do this, and I have no intentions of quitting anytime soon, health permitting. How about you? Any of you RP'ers have stories to share?

Response by SPC(P) Jay Heenan made Nov 19 at 2015 3:38 PM

SPC(P) Jay Heenan — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:38:50 -0500

I think my family is going to do a similar thing this year. I think it is important to show my children how thankful we are by showing how so many have little or nothing.

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Nov 19 at 2015 4:09 PM

LTC Stephen F. — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:09:23 -0500

We plan on spending Thanksgiving at the home mother-in-law where my wife and I are caring for herSCPO Private RallyPoint Member. We will be hosting an elderly man from our church whose wife left him a year or so ago. We will be saving some food for two of our sons. One who lives near the VAMC in Martinsburg, WV whose wife left him last year and whose ex-father-in-law terminated his employment as an electrician earlier this month. The other son lives nearby.
God is always faithful. I have learned to be thankful in times of bounty and great need. Nothing happens by chance to those of us who believe in and trust our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. We are each being conformed in to the image of Christ in God's perfect timing.
I hope each of my RallyPoint contacts and friends has a wonderful and thankful Thanksgiving holiday.

Response by LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow made Nov 20 at 2015 10:32 AM

LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:32:09 -0500

All at our table will be LGBT or allies, and almost all veterans...