📋 Dreams Realized Through Wish of a Lifetime (AARP Article/Advocacy)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM ARTICLE.

Making Dreams Come True for Older Americans.

AARP charitable affiliate Wish of a Lifetime has granted a milestone 3,000 wishes.

By Elise Ceyral, AARP. Published July 28, 2025.

Edwin Glaser, 77, paused in front of a black granite panel at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Then he turned to his 17-year-old granddaughter, who had accompanied him to this spot he considers sacred.

“I think the monument shows what we paid,” said Glaser as the two regarded the wall engraved with the names of more than 58,000 service members who died in the war. “It’s amazing how many people didn’t get to have a 17-year-old granddaughter."

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