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for me it honestly I think it is the

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overwhelming abundance of blessings in

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my own life I have been blessed beyond

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anything close to what I actually

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deserve and that manifest itself and a

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desire to pay that forward and then when

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you see where that gifts goes and what

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he does you know sure it makes you feel

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good but you see the results and so

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you're really helping somebody as a kid

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I you know my mom she went to those

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charities for help so we needed help so

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they helped us out so I like to give

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back hi I'm Craig MacArthur and I'm

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chairman of this year's Marshall CFC

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campaign you know at Marshall we tend to

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think of ourselves as making great

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contributions in the areas of science

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launch vehicles maybe earth science but

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here in the Tennessee Valley we're known

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for another major contribution it might

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surprise you to know there's over 60

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federal agencies in this area and last

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year they raised over 2.3 million

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dollars for the combined Federal

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Campaign but did you realize over

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twenty-five percent of that came from

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one single agency that's the Marshall

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Space Flight Center and it's this spirit

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of giving and it's the fact that our

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people get so invested not only in their

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work but in the community they live in

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that I think makes Marshall such a

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special place to be the surface days are

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important because when you go out and

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actually work with the charities you're

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with them they appreciate you for being

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there they can see your sincerity you

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can also get an idea of what's really

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going on with the charity so you know

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what you're supporting who you're

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supporting here's what I would tell

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someone that that has never been part of

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the CFC campaign there's nothing like

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going to the place and seeing what

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happens at the location or the

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organization that you're trying to help

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and meeting the people that not only run

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there are some angels in this town that

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run each one of those facilities and

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there are some good people and they're

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helping some people that maybe are not

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as lucky as we are or pass them

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misfortunes in their lives and until you

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get to go in there and experience a

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little bit of that that's when you

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really get to understand what's going on

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as stressful as this job can be

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sometimes if you wake up every day and

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leave your home and come to NASA to work

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that's a dream for a lot of people and I

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hope that if that is true for you that

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there is something that you can find in

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your heart and your wallet and your

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schedule that you can give to these

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organizations who are helping people try

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to reach the dreams that they have today

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you really can change a life you can