When NAFA sought a Keynote Speaker for this year's Institute & Expo, they turned to a man whose legend began just up the road from the Association's home office in Princeton, New Jersey - former United States Senator and Princeton University legend, Bill Bradley. Senator Bradley famously left the Senate in 1996 by declaring that American politics was "broken." He returned to that subject with the release of The New American Story in 2007. Introduced by Randy Shadley, CAFM, Vice President of NAFA, the former basketball star towered on stage as this year's Keynote Speaker and spoke about the issues raised in his book in front of a packed ballroom. Bradley started out with a heart warming story about a boy with cancer who wanted so badly to receive letters from his friends at camp that his own mother started writing him as a secret pen pal. The boy wrote his secret pal regularly and would ask his mother to mail the letters. One day his mother opened a letter that her son had written and on the paper was a sentence that read, "I love you mom". The boy later passed away and in memory of her son she began sending letters to all of his friends back at the camp for children with cancer. This mother, named Linda Bremner, is the Founder of Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness, Inc. and it was her son Andy who died.
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