By Jess T.
Will and Kate closed their North American tour by lending their unstoppable cachet to jobless war veterans.
“This is the last event on our tour of North America, and in my mind it was one of the seriously most important. This is because it is about men and women who, of their own free will, choose to put their life on the line for their country,” William said in front of a gigantic U.S. flag and Union Jack as hundred of phones were raised in the air to record his speech. “They are the front line of a remarkable relationship between the U.K., U.S., and Canada, which has safeguarded our freedoms for a century.”
Prince William, of course is an air force pilot with the world’s steadiest fallback job: future king.
But for the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. unemployment statistics are especially bleak, in an already depressing national outlook.
Post 911 vets have an unemployment rate of 12 per cent, and 27 per cent of veterans aged 18-24 are unemployed. The national unemployment rate hovers at 9 per cent.
On Sunday, Mission Serve, an NGO that hopes to connect vets with the workforce, hosted a job fair in a Sony pictures stage where the Wizard of Oz was filmed.
The Duke said he and Catherine know many at home who could benefit from this kind of event.
The Prince also referenced his brother’s work in their charitable foundation, calling him “my low flying apache, very average brother,” to laughter.
He closed off by thanking “The garden state and the City of Angels” for its hospitality.
At the Mission Service job fair in Sony Studios in Culver City, hundreds of employers, like Habitat for Humanity, the California Shakespeare Theatre Company and Target, set out booths.
The event felt like a pep rally with the sort of rock and roll that talks about small towns and big dreams, and officials quoting Eleanover Roosevelt.
“Navy, marines, coast guard, can I hear you!” someone shouted at the podium.
“YAH!”
It was a different, more sonorous tone of yelling that has so far followed Will and Kate around Los Angeles. But on Sunday, the royal couple lent their celebrity to two of their favourite causes: inner city youth and military families.
The Mission serve event also focused on jobs for military spouses.
Summer Angels, 32, was looking at employment options. Her husband has served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 and is currently overseas now.
“The transition is hard,” she said. She hopes he will only be deployed for another year, but he “might continue doing what’s he doing because of the economic situation,” she said.
He looks online when he can for a federal job, she says. Many of his friends who have returned home have not found work.
Angels said she had a lot of respect for Will and Kate for lending their celebrity to U.S. military families.
The royal couple will fly home this afternoon.
Will and Kate closed their North American tour by lending their unstoppable cachet to jobless war veterans.
“This is the last event on our tour of North America, and in my mind it was one of the seriously most important. This is because it is about men and women who, of their own free will, choose to put their life on the line for their country,” William said in front of a gigantic U.S. flag and Union Jack as hundred of phones were raised in the air to record his speech. “They are the front line of a remarkable relationship between the U.K., U.S., and Canada, which has safeguarded our freedoms for a century.”
Prince William, of course is an air force pilot with the world’s steadiest fallback job: future king.
But for the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. unemployment statistics are especially bleak, in an already depressing national outlook.
Post 911 vets have an unemployment rate of 12 per cent, and 27 per cent of veterans aged 18-24 are unemployed. The national unemployment rate hovers at 9 per cent.
On Sunday, Mission Serve, an NGO that hopes to connect vets with the workforce, hosted a job fair in a Sony pictures stage where the Wizard of Oz was filmed.
The Duke said he and Catherine know many at home who could benefit from this kind of event.
The Prince also referenced his brother’s work in their charitable foundation, calling him “my low flying apache, very average brother,” to laughter.
He closed off by thanking “The garden state and the City of Angels” for its hospitality.
At the Mission Service job fair in Sony Studios in Culver City, hundreds of employers, like Habitat for Humanity, the California Shakespeare Theatre Company and Target, set out booths.
The event felt like a pep rally with the sort of rock and roll that talks about small towns and big dreams, and officials quoting Eleanover Roosevelt.
“Navy, marines, coast guard, can I hear you!” someone shouted at the podium.
“YAH!”
It was a different, more sonorous tone of yelling that has so far followed Will and Kate around Los Angeles. But on Sunday, the royal couple lent their celebrity to two of their favourite causes: inner city youth and military families.
The Mission serve event also focused on jobs for military spouses.
Summer Angels, 32, was looking at employment options. Her husband has served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 and is currently overseas now.
“The transition is hard,” she said. She hopes he will only be deployed for another year, but he “might continue doing what’s he doing because of the economic situation,” she said.
He looks online when he can for a federal job, she says. Many of his friends who have returned home have not found work.
Angels said she had a lot of respect for Will and Kate for lending their celebrity to U.S. military families.
The royal couple will fly home this afternoon.
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