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December 26, 2003 By Will Richardson

Spent a good chunk of yesterday at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen with my wife and father-in-law helping to dish up over 400 meals to some very less fortunate on a cold New Jersey day. It’s amazing to me that in my state capitol, the illiteracy and poverty rates are both around 40%, and that’s literally less than 25 miles from my community where I would be surprised if either of those rates broke 2-3%. It was depressingly obvious how bleak the prospects are for the children who came through the doors. For me, their faces make it very difficult not to wonder why we can spend billions on the reconstruction of countries that we really have no business destroying in the first place but we can’t find enough money to provide the basic necessities for our own people…
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