![]() ![]() I made 120 sandwiches for Shepherd’s Table. I’m doing one good act every day all year, including helping an elderly couple fix up their house and I cleaned and delivered my son’s old tricycle to a young girl who needed one. ![]() I’m getting 6 birdhouses with plaques that say, “In Memory of Tommy Raskin and his love of animals” to give to all the Montgomery County Schools where Tommy went, including TPES, Eastern, and Blair High School. ![]() I will always speak up for the underdog in honor of Tommy and I’m donating to Animal Outlook. I donated to NAMI and will do a good deed every day in Tommy’s honor for 21 days.Ī husband and wife have started “Tommy’s Tuesday” when they go vegan. I donated 15 new pairs of boots to people in need. I adopted an elephant in Tommy’s name through Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Trash cleanup is going on in the Black Forest of Germany to make a better environment for animals and people. I’m giving food all week to unemployed restaurant workers in Baltimore. I’m donating stimulus checks to anti-hunger and pro-justice groups in El Salvador. Kids are donating toys, stuffed animals, and clothes to Children’s Hospital. I’m sending thank-you cards to frontline workers. I’m an 8th grader donating my Christmas money to the Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary.Įleven churches in “Field of Hope” are donating $16,548 in honor of Tommy to help give farmers overseas training and tools to end global hunger. I’m delivering groceries to families in Maryland struggling financially. It’s gone worldwide.Ī few of the efforts being made in Tommy’s memory: The Acts of Goodness Project in Honor of Tommy Raskin, and in Support of the Raskin Family is a local project launched by the McDonough Family. “I would report to him about our work on the Hill to try to address the pandemic, always providing positive a spin as possible.Tommy Raskin, the 25-year-old son of US Congressman Jamie Raskin and his wife Sarah, died by suicide New Year’s Eve 2020. “In the fall of 2020, I was many times conscious, while at dinner with Sarah and Tommy, of censoring stories on the tip of my tongue about the ordeals of immigrants or refugees that we had heard in the Judiciary Committee, because I knew how much they would upset and pain Tommy,” he writes. This in turn led to Mr Raskin not speaking of his work as a congressman lest he upset his son. Mr Raskin notes how many young people like his son also dealt with depression and suicide has spiked in people in his son’s age group. The two Raskins marched in a Black Lives Matter rally, which was the last protest the two would attend together. I tried to comfort him, and we talked about what to do in response.” “Tommy looked heartbroken and astonished, as though his mind and heart could not assimilate the reality of so much viciousness and cruelty being densely concentrated in one man, a lawless agent of the state. “He was in our kitchen when he handed me his phone,” Mr Raskin writes. “Relationships were strained, forced into a premature or awkward intimacy, or more likely, into a melancholy virtual oblivion.”Īt the same time, Mr Raskin writes how his son was despondent at the death of George Floyd. “With in-person school closed, social life was reduced to a fragile and masked minimum,” the elder Raskin writes. ![]()
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