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Each new year brings the chance to set fresh goals and work toward personal and professional growth. If you’ve been thinking about negotiating a raise, redesigning your favorite room, mastering storytelling or learning to play the ukulele, now’s the time to turn those ideas into actionable goals. Blue Star Families is offering members a free MasterClass subscription, valid through Dec. 31, 2025.

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Blue Star Families is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting and empowering military and Veteran families. Founded by military spouses, the organization provides free resources, career development opportunities and community-building programs to help families thrive while navigating military life and beyond. Thanks to partnerships with companies like MasterClass, Blue Star Families is able to offer incredible opportunities—like this free subscription—to support lifelong learning and personal growth. And it’s free to become a member of Blue Star Families.

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2 Comments

  1. Aiman whose friends came back with PTSD after Iraq. March 21, 2025 at 23:36 - Reply

    “Authentic Leadership with George W. Bush”
    The admitted war-criminal whose (in his own words) brutal and illegal invasions of Iraq (and Afghanistan), 2 countries that never attacked us, cost us thousands of our brothers and sisters in uniform? Baby Bush’s bloodthirst murdered more Americans than Osama Bin Laden did in 9/11.
    That anti-American neocon *traitor* is directly personally responsible for countless of our veterans returning home with physical and mental trauma if they returned at all.
    We don’t want a *damn thing* from that *fake* patriot and *fake* Christian except a full confession & joining Saddam in hell – that’s where *enemies of America* like the Bushes belong. Too bad Bush senior didn’t die a hero – our country and the entire world would have been so much better off without the existence of that evil family.

    Why don’t presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor??

  2. James LaVanway March 20, 2025 at 10:18 - Reply

    Thiscis about a few local Ladies from Southwestern Michigan that have delivered thousands of boxes and letters to Veterans here and abroad. These Ladies have been the Life line to Veterans for many years. Maine Hartline heads up these GOD sent people. Please say a prayer for them.
    Thank you

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