The Obamas Give Back To Their Community~ National Day of Service 9/11 Pics and Smiles

[Cha]

President Barack Obama helps fill backpacks with items to give to homeless children while participating in a service project at The Inspired Teaching School


First Lady Michelle Obama helps fill backpacks with items to give to homeless children


President Barack Obama uses a ratchet wrench as he helps build a playground while participating in a service project at the Inspired Teaching School, a high-performing public charter school in northeast Washington, DC, to commemorate the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance



http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/11/the-obamas-give-back-to-their-community/

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"Your love is the ultimate rebuke to the hatred of those who attacked us that bright, blue morning." —Obama to families of 9/11 victims
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The legacy of 9/11 is that our spirit is mightier, the bonds that unite us are thicker, and our resolve is firmer.
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[sheshe2]

1. Kick and Rec!

[sheshe2]

2. Love Love Love this OP!

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama help build a playground

to commemorate the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/11/the-obamas-give-back-to-their-community/

Beautiful Cha. Simply beautiful. The Obamas show the spirit of giving back to the community!

Brava Cha!

[Cha]

3. It's so.. yes, it's so wonderful to see

the President and Michelle looking happy and relaxed.. especially Obama after the stress he and everyone else involved have been under for so long. The best medicine really is giving back and helping others, she.

Thank you for that pic.. Michelle's got the wrench now.. I love that one too!

[sheshe2]

4. Kudos for your OP!

BOG~

[brer cat]

5. Lovely thread, cha.

He has to be totally exhausted, but he sure doesn't look it here. I hope it gave him an opportunity to get his mind off the world for a little while.

K&R

[Cha]

6. Like I just said to, sheshe, brer cat.. it's so good to see them

happy and relaxed.. especially President Obama after all the stress he and his TEAM have gone through. Giving back and helping others is the best medicine after all!

Mahalo brer cat~

[hopemountain]

14. and mixing it up with little children

the smiles - so good to see

[Cha]

15. Yes, always with the kids! Our Future~

hopemountain

[freshwest]

7. "Your love is the ultimate rebuke to the hatred of those who attacked us that bright, blue morning."

~ Barack Obama.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

~ Meister Eckhart

For there are these three things that endure: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

Those pictures capture the freedom of love. Thanks, Cha!

[Cha]

8. Mahalo to you, freshwest~ Those are beautiful quotes to accompany what the President

said this morning~

For there are these three things that endure: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

[freshwest]

11. Where there is love, there is joy. All the pictures have that. Love these photo threads!

[Major Hogwash]

9. Great thread, Cha.

After 2001, I used to spend September 11th wondering what would become of this nation, up until just a few years ago.
But, when the 8th anniversary took place in 2009, most of the worry that I had that we would fall apart and become ineffective at implementing change fell away, and I realized that we had survived the worst decade of our lives while George W. Bush was in office, with Dick Cheney whispering in his ear, telling him what evil thing to do next.

Remembering to do good things for others on this date, in spite of what happened back in 2001, is the best medicine we can do for ourselves to help ourselves heal from how we felt when hearing the terrible news of what had happened that year.
President Obama is leading by example, something all great leaders have done.

And the information in this thread is proof that President Obama is definitely a great leader of this country.

[Cha]

10. Thank you, Major.. it's so wonderful to see smiles on faces of the FL and the President doing

what they do best.. helping others.

I know what you mean about making it to 2009.. 8 years after 9/11 when the unthinkable happened.. it's still hard to wrap my head around it. I was living upstate in New York at the time.. it was too unbearably sad.. and then the aftermath of the bush-cheney misbegotten war on Iraq.

I remember seeing what happened live as I still watched the today show back then.. and my head was swirling in unbelievable chaos.. I went out for a run and past houses where no one was home.. thinking they don't know yet how much the world is changed.

I was a political neophyte but, I was still thinking that bush would use this to his advantage.. little did we know what evil they had in store.

[treestar]

12. nice photos

I like the example they set for service.

[Cha]

13. Yes, treestar.. the Obamas set an excellent example for our country. That's a sweet quote

from VP Biden, too, regarding 9/11.