AMFAS recognizes Military Family Month
November is a special time of year for our military families. In addition to Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holidays, the entire month is recognized as Military Family Month.
During the month, American Military Families Autism Support will continue to recognize our military families dealing with autism, providing news, information, community and support that directly impacts them.
Our families go through a lot in support to a grateful nation and encounter challenges that non-military families will likely never experience, whether their family member is dealing with autism or not.
If you want to share your stories, photos or even artwork of being a military family dealing with autism, please send it to news@amfas.org and we’ll share it with our community.
To kickoff the appreciation month, our Commander-In-Chief President Barack Obama issued the following proclamation:
Since our Nation’s earliest days, courageous men and women of all backgrounds and beliefs have banded together to fight for the freedoms we cherish. Behind each of them stands a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse — proud family members who share the weight of deployment and make profound sacrifices on behalf of our country. During Military Family Month, we honor our military families and recommit to showing them the fullest care and respect of a grateful Nation.
In our military families, we see the best our country has to offer. They demonstrate the virtues that have made America great for more than two centuries and the values that will preserve our greatness for centuries to come. With loved ones serving far from home, military spouses take on the work of two. Their children show courage and resilience as they move from base to base, school to school, home to home. And even through the strain of deployment, military families strengthen the fabric of each community they touch and enrich our national life as shining examples of patriotism.
We each have a solemn duty to serve our Armed Forces and their families as well as they serve us. Through First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative, we have worked to fulfill this obligation by mobilizing all Americans to give service members and their families the opportunities and support they have earned. Last year, we challenged American businesses to hire or train 100,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013. To date, they have already exceeded that challenge, hiring over 125,000 veterans and military spouses. From helping military children succeed in the classroom to increasing support for those who care for our wounded warriors, Joining Forces will keep fighting to ensure the well-being of our troops and their families.
When a young woman signs up to defend our Nation, her parents are enlisted as well. When a father deploys to a combat zone, his children are called to serve on the home front. And when the men and women of our military serve far from home, their families feel the strain of their absence. In that absence, let us stand together as one American family. Let us honor the brave patriots who keep our country safe, and let us forever hold close the memories of those who have perished in the line of duty. This month, we reaffirm that we will always lift up our military families — not just when their loved ones are away, but also long after the welcome home ceremonies are over.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2012 as Military Family Month. I call on all Americans to honor military families through private actions and public service for the tremendous contributions they make in support of our service members and our Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
BARACK OBAMA
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2 / 25 / 2013 1:22 am
Joy, I am also a mother of 4. My 8 year old son was dx’d with mild to moderate autism, but the school calls it severe (it is what it is). He is mostly non verbal. You are very, very lucky your children all speak. They are all very cute as well. I know you are counting your blessings. I am wishing my son Luke could be more verbal. We are working on it! My other kids are 17, 10, and 6. Sometimes it is so loud around here I don’t mind that one kid isn’t putting his 2 cents in. Keep blogging! The pix of your smiling family brightened my day today and the Million Dollar Worm story is one I’ve already told my family about. I can’t wait until Luke starts writing more! He is just learning to write his name right now. It is interesting that in the picture you have posted Adrian is all in blue and that he likes spiderman. Luke did manage to tell me one day when I asked that his favorite color is “BOOOOOOOO!” Since then I notice how his eyes light up when I get him out a blue shirt to wear. I had been thinking his favorite color was yellow! You could have knocked me over when he said blue, because it is so rarely that he speaks. He also nods vigorously to indicate that he likes spiderman. Grade school boys and their superheroes! Anyway, I don’t have anything to advertise. Just wanted to say thanks for reminding me I’m not alone.