In an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger writes about a small ceremony that took place at Camp Pendleton yesterday morning. Gerard was there, and, as usual, writes a moving piece about it here.
The purpose was to attend an event in which Spirit of America would turn over some of the video equipment they’d purchased as a result of their amazing fund-raising activities of the past month. The idea was to raise money to equip a few people in Iraq with the basic means of creating and broadcasting their own television. A kind of grass-roots antidote to Al-Jazerra, the project suddenly, with the help of big media’s Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henniger, took off. What began with a goal of $100,000 ended with a sum in the region of $1,500,000. As I write a loose coalition of bloggers is still plugging away hoping to add another $50,000 to the pot. As I drive into the entrance to Camp Pendleton, I’m thinking that this has to be one of those small miracles you read about but seldom get to witness. Why am I here? I’m not quite sure. I’m just doing what God put in front of me. Lately I’ve found that’s not a bad route to follow.
Gerard was part of this "loose coalition of bloggers," and his donation -- a day of editing -- raised $800 for the cause after spirited bidding went on well into early Thursday morning.