How Mom’s Letter Paved Way for Young Man’s Visit With President

Dec 25, 2011 8:00am
How Mom’s Letter Paved Way for Young Man’s Visit With President

A young man whose mother wrote a letter to President Obama is now scheduled to meet with the president.

Jeremy Carr, 23, has Down syndrome. Carr volunteered with his mother, a Vietnam War veteran, at a road clean-up event in the spring staged by Chapter 862 of the Vietnam Veterans of America. It was one of several veterans volunteer events in which Carr has taken part.

Throughout the morning of the clean-up, he never asked to take a break, didn’t stop to talk about his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers, or his favorite WWE star John Cena, his mother said. He didn’t even ask for anything to eat or drink. He asked his mother only one thing several times during the day, “Mom, will President Barack Obama be proud of me for helping the soldiers?”
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