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Today President Obama made it clear that he has no intention of allowing us as a people to simply exist in isolation from each other, evidenced by a bill signed today that once again echoes an age old request, one that enlists us all to ask what we might do for our country.

President Obama signed The Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act into law today. This Bill expands the opportunities to serve already afforded by AmeriCorps while going further to make new investments in the nonprofit sector so as to identify innovative ways to engage the American people in going about the work that is needed, to change our country for the better. The Press Release announcing the bill is posted in full after the jump.

During his speech announcing the bill, President Obama shared a story often recited by Senator Kennedy.

An old man walking along the beach at dawn sees a young man picking up the star fish and throwing them out to sea. “Why are you doing that?” The old man inquired. The young man explained that the starfish had been stranded on the beech by a receding tide. And would soon die in the daytime sun. “But the beach goes on for miles,” the old man said. “And there’s so many! How can your effort make any difference?” The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and without hesitating threw it to safety in the sea. He looked up at the old man, smiled and said, “It will make a difference to that one.”

You don’t need to do a lot, to do something.
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