GIVING, HOPE AND APPRECIATION
In Lee Iacocca Talking Straight, he shares a number of stories about raising funds for the Statue of Liberty project on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the lovely lady in New York harbor: There was the man from Poland who sent us $2 for “this beautiful symbol” that he never expected to see himself, but at least he could dream about it. And there was the money order that arrived from a refugee camp in Thailand. Seventy-eight homeless Vietnamese had passed the hat and come up with $114.19 as “our humble share for the rehabilitation of the Statue of Liberty on the occasion of her hundredth birthday.” That one floored me. These were people who had lost everything — everything but hope. And the Lady was the symbol of that hope. They simply were pleading with us to “keep the torch lit.” And I’ll never, but never, forget the saga of Mary Miller. She was just a little…
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