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Article: AMERICANS IN NEED TIME AGAIN TO RALLY COMMUNITY RESOURCES.(Viewpoint)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 30, 2001
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Byline: Don and Barbara Keeler
CONGRESSMAN Dick Armey has announced that it would violate the ``spirit of America'' to extend federal assistance for Americans laid off in the wake of Sept. 11. CNN's Robert Novak expressed similar sentiments. Clearly they have not met the same Americans we have.
We witnessed firsthand the spirit and compassion of a small American community, El Segundo, almost 10 years before Sept. 11, when it set this example that we offer for other American communities.
When the local newspaper examined invisible poverty among former aerospace and city workers in El Segundo, inspired churches and citizens formed the Community ...