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Former President William Jefferson Clinton Honored at NELA Gala 10|05|26 - This evening former President Wililam Jefferson Clinton, received the Sons ofItaly's Foundation 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service. President Clinton was preceded at the podium by Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano who was in the Nation's capital for an official meeting with President Obama. Clinton noted in his remarks that when he was President he had more Italian American appointees tha Capt . Anthony K. Odierno, the son of Gen. Raymon there were in Italy. Also honored at the gala werend Odierno, the Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Iraq. Gen.. Odierno presented his son, who is on the Board of Directors of the Wounded Warrior Project, with the 2010 Special Award for Courage and Patriotism. Also honored was Lewis C. Merletti, the former Director of the U.S. Secret Service who received the 2010 National Education and Leadership Award. (Pictured above, Gen. Odierno presenting the NELA award to his son, Capt. Odierno) |CiaoAmerica.net| |
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