President Obama is urging Americans to remember the troops during this holiday season.
“No one sacrifices more to preserve our blessings than our extraordinary men and women in uniform,” Obama said in his weekly address.
The president noted the efforts of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, those helping train Syrian opposition troops and providing security in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the soldiers helping the effort against Ebola in west Africa.
So this holiday season, as we give thanks for the blessings in our own lives, let’s also give thanks to our men and women in uniform who make those blessings possible,” he said. “Even as some are coming home for the holidays, many more will be far from their families, who sacrifice along with them.”
The president noted the pending end to the combat mission in Afghanistan — although 1,000 more troops will remain in 2015 than originally planned — and said he’ll be at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey on Monday to “help welcome them home.”
He implored Americans to “do something” to express their gratitude to members of the armed forces.
You can go to JoiningForces.gov, Obama said, to find out what you can do to help.
