Dr Laura Schlessinger Honored By DOD, Operation Family Fund

VINDICATION

What Lefty Critics Won't Say About Dr Laura's Public Service







When Dr Laura Schlessinger was under fire two months ago over her son's supposed MySpace page, lefty bloggers and talk hosts had a great time skewering the syndicated advice talker.

Meanwhile, perhaps because they've foolishly come to believe some of the left's relentlessly unhinged, anti- Laura hate, conservative bloggers failed to defend the author / host, wrongly leaving her hanging out to dry.

Two months later, instead of the crumbling of Dr Laura's advice empire, as "progressives" had hoped to see, she's being honored for her fundraising work on behalf of injured soldiers through Operation Family Fund.

From an official US Department Of Defense news release:

America Supports You: Department Honors Radio’s ‘Dr. Laura’

By Samantha L. Quigley


Radio talk-show host Laura Schlessinger is used to millions of people listening to her. Today, however, it was her turn to listen, as Defense Department officials acknowledged her support of America’s servicemembers.

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England thanked “Dr. Laura” as he presented Schlessinger with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service in a brief ceremony at the Pentagon. The award cited her work to raise awareness of and financial support for a California-based nonprofit group, “Operation Family Fund.”

“On behalf of the Department of Defense and everybody who serves in the Department of Defense and the American people, I just want to say, ‘thank you for your great work,’” England said.

England also thanked Operation Family Fund’s founder, Mike Cash, for his work supporting military families. “Thank you also for your great work directly benefiting these great men and women who need help, deserve help and appreciate (what you do),” he said.

Operation Family Fund provides financial assistance to families of military personnel severely injured or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group also is a supporter of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and corporations with military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad.

Schlessinger said she was touched to receive the honor, but that her actions were simply to offer “support, morally and physically, … to these people with this extraordinary attitude.”

“But it’s nice to get some recognition, … and hopefully it motivates other people when they see how involved I am,” she added. “Normally, you do what you need to do, and you don’t’ give a lot of thought to, ‘Gee, I’m going to get a ribbon for it.’”

Schlessinger has another reason to support the troops that’s even nearer to her heart.

“My kidlet’s in Afghanistan,” she said of her son, who is deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division. “I wouldn’t have understood as much as I do now (if it weren’t for him). So I’ve taken it as my personal responsibility to get everybody up to speed.”

The radio personality’s troop-support efforts include ensuring her nearly 8 million listeners know about Operation Family Fund. She also has raised more than a half million dollars for the organization.

So, to the lefties who have been so quick to bash Dr Laura at every turn, here's a question: what are you doing to help fallen soldiers? Beyond using them for your own propaganda purposes, do you share her concern for their long term well- being?


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