Yesterday morning David and I received an invitation to go hear candidate, Barack Obama at a private event in Colorado Springs. Since I had the day off and David didn't have to go to work until the afternoon, we RSVP'd that we would attend the speech. We picked up our tickets outside the gym where the event would take place and while in line to enter the arena, we received green dots which allowed us to sit behind the candidate during the speech. (You can even see me in the photo from "thedenverchannel.com")Obama spoke of the need for all Americans to perform public service of some kind. He spoke of expanding the military and it's benefits, of setting a new "energy" corps and doubling the size of the peace corps. He called for all middle school and high school students to volunteer at least 50 hours a year and for college students to get a government grant if they volunteer 100 hours each year (that's only 2 hours a week)
To read more about the morning see these news reports:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16768499/detail.html#
http://cbs4denver.com/politics/Obama.Visit.Springs.2.761994.html
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=94923&catid=188
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9763668
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/02/obama-visiting-springs-today/
