A lone volunteer paints a wall in the cafeteria at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the District of Columbia during a service project on Martin Luther King Day. About 20,000 people in the District of Columbia participated in nearly 150 service projects in honor of the slain civil rights leader on January 21, 2008.
AmeriCorps members Eric Jones, left, and Peter Vincent, right, spent the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service participating in a clean-up project of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C.   Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including President George W. Bush, honored Dr. King by engaging in volunteer service projects across the United States.
President George W. Bush welcomes Jonathan Wu of Fremont, Calif., to the stage in the East Room of the White House, where he received the President's Volunteer Service Award Thursday, May 10, 2007, in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
President George W. Bush participates in a Commemoration of Military Spouse Day and Presentation of the President's Volunteer Service Awards in the East Room of the White House on April 11, 2007.
On April 16, 2007, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and USA Freedom Corps hosted a "Compassion in Action Roundtable" to discuss the promotion of service and civic engagement in the United States.  Mark Sloan, Outreach Coordinator, Harris County (TX) Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
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