{"id":157713,"date":"2024-04-25T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=157713"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:01:39","slug":"a-legacy-of-service-uss-george-h-w-bush-cvn-77-serves-the-hampton-roads-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=157713","title":{"rendered":"A Legacy of Service: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Serves the Hampton Roads Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>The event provided an opportunity for the ship\u2019s crew to thank the Hampton Roads community for its continued support both while deployed and at home. Sailors worked at 37 organizations across 77 locations in special appreciation to CVN 77.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Thousand Points of Light program received its name and inspiration from Bush\u2019s Presidential Inauguration speech in which he called on Americans to serve as a &#8220;thousand points of light&#8221; in their communities through volunteer service.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cPresident Bush once said, \u2018any definition of a successful life must include service to other,\u2019\u201d said Capt. Dave Pollard, commanding officer of George H.W. Bush. \u201cTeam Avenger is doing just that by serving our country and community with pride while exemplifying our namesake\u2019s legacy of service, grit, humility, and resilience so that, as President Bush said, \u2018we can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves.\u2019&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Each department aboard the ship is participating in community service projects including volunteering at local schools, assisting at food banks, animal shelters, homeless shelters, cleaning parks and beaches and more, all to celebrate Bush\u2019s 100th birthday this year.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThis ship-wide initiative is intended to enrich the lives of Sailors and their loved ones as we serve as the warriors, teachers, leaders, and ambassadors of our communities and uphold the spirit of our namesake\u2019s lifetime of public service,\u201d said Lt. Karl Gibbs, a Navy chaplain aboard George H.W. Bush and the ship\u2019s Thousand Points of Light coordinator.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>George H.W. Bush\u2019s mission has shifted from deployed operations to service at home. This program began again after the COVID 19 pandemic with a renewed dedication to service, starting with the countries visited during the ship\u2019s 2022-2023 deployment.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Since returning from deployment, the ship has accumulated over 6,055 volunteer hours in the spirit of Bush\u2019s famous inaugural address where he called on Americans to serve their communities through volunteerism. After the ship-wide service day the ship will have over 9,945 hours of service.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Leaders and members of the Points of Light Foundation, Volunteer Hampton Roads, and Senator Warner\u2019s office all came out to support the ship\u2019s crew.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe are honored to celebrate the 100th birthday of George H.W. Bush, by giving back to the community that has given us so much support,\u201d said Pollard. \u201cWe are the Thousand Points of Light in our community, the good we want to see in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event provided an opportunity for the ship\u2019s crew to thank the Hampton Roads community for its continued support both while deployed and at home. Sailors worked at 37 organizations across 77 locations in special appreciation to CVN 77.\u00a0The Thousand Points of Light program received its name and inspiration from Bush\u2019s Presidential Inauguration speech in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":157715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157716,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157713\/revisions\/157716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}