One of the all-time best public service programs will take place on Saturday, September 1 when public golf courses across the U.S. participate in Patriot Golf Day, sponsored by the PGA, USGA , Wounded Warriors, Inc. and the Fallen Heroes Foundation. Each golf course will donate $1.00 of your greens fees to the program.
So, if you are planning to play golf Labor Day weekend, make it count. It seems to me that $1.00 is a small sacrifice next to what our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and their families give everyday.
The Fallen Heroes Foundation offers financial and emotional support to the families of fallen or injured servicemen and women. More importantly, I think, they provide financial aid for educating the children of these patriots.
Wounded Warriors, Inc. owns family-friendly resort condominiums in Orlando, FL and Galveston, TX where "war-torn" families can retreat for solace and restore peace to their lives.
Take a moment on September 1 while you are enjoying the beauty and quiet of your favorite golf course to think about what a soldier is doing, thinking, feeling, experiencing at the same time.
If you are like me, you'll want to do, and give, more. As an avid golfer, and a Vietnam era Army veteran, the trauma our soldiers are experiencing now, matched against the growing unpopularity of the Iraq conflict will soon be, in the words of Yogi Berra, "Deja Vu all over again."
Do something now. Go to http://www.playgolfamerica.com/
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