It is an honor and privilege to be recognized as part of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s Thomas Jefferson Awards this year.
The Foundation, and its Founder and President, Mikey Weinstein, stand out as unique in their consistently effective efforts to safeguard the Civil Rights and Freedoms of all those serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. They are, in fact, the only group regularly responding to the daily onslaught of discrimination complaints coming from active duty members of all service branches. For many of those, against whom such discrimination is lodged, the Foundation is their only source for help. Participating in that work continues, now after many years, to be a uniquely gratifying experience for me personally.
I deeply appreciate the Foundation's recognition by this award and look forward to continued assistance to the Foundation and Mikey in their work.