If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet,
had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts,
where should we have been now?
Hanging on the gallows.

-Thomas Jefferson

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1) Schools, Roads and Clinics Opening in Iraq and Afghanistan - The U.S. military celebrated the opening of remodeled schools in Kirkuk, two new healthcare facilities, and delivered school supplies to children in Iraq. Meanwhile, from Afghanistan, the U.S. announced plans to double their construction workload in the next year to some 600 projects providing new roads, electric power and water distribution systems for the Afghan people. (Iraq ) (Afghanistan)

2) Enterprise Rent-A-Car Commits to Plant 50 Million Trees - Enterprise Rent-A-Car will commemorate its 50th anniversary by pledging the unprecedented gift of 50 million trees to The National Arbor Day Foundation to be planted over the next 50 years – a gift of more than $50 million. (Business)

Even in the face of a worsening economy, the nation's 717 community foundations raised their giving by an estimated 6.7 percent in 2008 to a record $4.6 billion, and outpaced corporate foundation funding for the first time, according to Key Facts on Community Foundations, a May 2009 report from the Foundation Center.