Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail.
To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.
Some in the media have spent a decade trying to manufacture drama around President Trump and people who work for him. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
See you Monday.
“Pressure” is a fine movie, and as accurate as any dramatization of the events at Ike’s HQ the week before D-Day. (Ike is played by Brendan Frazier, Monty by Damian Lewis and both carry their world historical figures very well.)
The Normandy scenes —much like those of “Saving Private Ryan”— are sobering, and especially relevant as we are both in a war as well as approaching the 250th, a quarter millennium which has seen many commanders make many incredibly difficult decisions to attack or delay. Parents should understand that the invasion scenes are as jarring as one would expect.
The film prompted me to start listening to “Citizen Soldiers” by Stephen Ambrose, which I read in 1997 when it came out. My dad, a GI who served in the occupation of Japan and with brothers who flew in Europe and “over the hump,”
was a voracious consumer of WW II history and he thought this the equal of any of the hundreds of books he read about his war. If the movie sparks any wonder about that massive effort of the Greatest Generation, follow it with “Citizen Soldiers.”