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On November 11th, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama made a challenge to the student body of George Washington University and that was to complete 100,000 hours of volunteering by the end of the academic year. If this was completed she would speak at their commencement in the spring. The student body met that challenge and complete over 106,000 hours. With that being done Ms. Obama kept her end of the bargain, speaking at the commencement and receiving a Honorary Doctorate in public service on May 16th, 2010.
Last Thursday and Friday I was up in Gettysburg, Pa on assignment. I arrived the afternoon before to photograph around Gettysburg as it plays a major part in how our nation was shaped in the later part of the 19th century. I drove around for sometime finding nothing to photograph. Until I came across this movie theater that was on the outskirts of town. I drove around the entire theater and only found about three or four cars in the parking lot, which seemed odd for me as it was a Thursday evening around 7pm. Weren't families taking their kids out to see an early movie or a young couple on a date. Or was this one of the many signs that still remains of the recession and how it will take sometime for the small parts of this nation to feel the effects of the bailout. A newly constructed theater sits empty on a Thursday night.
It has been a while since I have posted on my blog. Last week I was covering a Atlantic Council dinner which saw Bono and Bill Clinton receive awards for their humanitarian work. What made the shot interesting was that Sen. John McCain was presenting Bono with his award. You wouldn't even imagine the two in the same room, but chatting it up at the dinner table was a very cool moment to witness.
