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Good things like Find-A-Group™ do not spring from thin air. Someone, always a single human being, has the idea. Then other human beings pitch in to help do all the work necessary to bring the idea into being.
Here, the idea for the index was Martin Boire’s. Then, Nancy Coriale, Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, did all the research work compiling the initial list of groups. She located the groups, and compiled all of the information for each which you see in this index. Nancy is what Martin Boire calls a “constant gardener.” Retired, she is also busy doing volunteer work to better her community and America. The list was then edited by Berkley college student Giuliana Conti, in California. Then high school and middle school students Angela and Connie Pitenis, Ormond Beach, Florida, edited that first gathering. Next, a final week-long proofing, cross-checking, additions and deletions, was tediously performed by Janet Anania, Port Orange, Florida. Ever-dedicated to this project from day one, she is a true American heroine. Protective of her privacy, it is hoped that nonetheless the troops and their families someday come to know of the risks she has taken, sacrifices she has made, and things she has done to set forth something good and permanent upon the landscape of America for them. Martin Boire then went back through the database for two solid days, looking at each group, their mission statements, checking their websites for currency, and the uniformity of abbreviations, layouts and the like in the database.
All of this data to start this consolidated, living searchable, list of groups, was then uploaded and made operational on the website by Marco Conti, California, who had done a great deal of research in locating and customizing a software application to be ready to operate this program. Marco is another uniquely American participant. Marco likes to describe himself as a liberal, and that he was drawn to this project out of his belief that regardless the mission, we always stick up for the troops who stick up for all of us.
Most Americans are wonderfully complex full-thinking people, with multiple facets to their beliefs and personalities. And in creating this Find-A-Group™ service those types have once again pleasantly and with determination worked together for the good of all, just like people of civility of old.
All for the sake of the amazing troops and their stalwart families who so diligently look out for all of us.
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