I am fortunate to have in-laws who I love.  Not everyone is so fortunate.  I pass along to you the item we came across today--if true, as the British press have reported, it's the email to end all emails--and might become the most emailed-around-email in a good long while.  Enjoy.

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Courtesy National Journal, more than you ever knew about my friend Chuck Todd and his daily routine. And, courtesy Gawker: What a very rich person's ATM receipt looks like.  This is why they tell you to take your receipt.

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NBC News is dedicating an entire year’s worth of programming to a new series, "Making a Difference on the Homefront." The series, an extension of "Nightly News with Brian Williams’" award-winning franchise, is an effort to shine a light on veterans, military families and the issues affecting them across the country. "NBC Nightly News" will feature monthly stories as part of the initiative, as will all other NBC News platforms, including TODAY, msnbc and msnbc.com.

"One of the great blessings in my life has been the exposure I've received to the military – active duty, in the field and veterans," said Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News." "They are America’s genuine heroes, and it is a privilege to use our platforms at NBC News to honor all that they have done. With this series, we hope to give a voice to vitally important stories that may have otherwise gone untold."

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Services (VETS), will carry out more than 100 job fairs across the country in an effort to assist veterans and their spouses in finding second careers in their local communities.

The inaugural job fair will kick off in partnership with NBC 4 New York alongside the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City on Thursday, June 23, followed by a second hiring fair with NBC 4 Los Angeles on Sunday, July 10, with others to be announced over the course of the year.

On June 23, WNBC will broadcast live hits from the Intrepid throughout the day.

Visit www.makingadifference.msnbc.com for more information. 

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Bruce Springsteen & Clarence Clemons, Oakland Colisium, Oakland, CA

Clarence Clemons is really gone.  Here's an account of today's memorial service, and reading it removes all hope that the Big Man is somehow going to find the strength to come back and play for us...and pal around with Bruce just like the old days...and show up at the Pony and ask why everyone's so sad...and tell us all there's been a big mistake.  It remains so sad.  Every E Streeter I know is still talking about it, and wondering what the future will hold.  Just today a friend sent me a color copy of his first-ever concert ticket.  And it had me remembering all over again: there were no tickets for the first E Street concert I attended. It was at the Pony, and it was hot and crowded and it was wild and we knew it was something new.  People filed past the stage at the Pony on Father’s Day Sunday like they file past a tomb at Arlington.  Don't let anyone ever tell you it’s just music. 

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Brian Williams and Senator John Glenn

Today I had the rare privilege of walking through the Smithsonian Air and Space facility near Dulles Airport...with John Glenn. I have known the Senator casually over the years—just through time spent with him in the course of interviews—and he is an extraordinary man. Only two of the original Mercury Seven astronauts remain (Glenn and Scott Carpenter, who was with me for our live coverage when Glenn's shuttle mission took off), and to stand there looking at the Mercury backup test capsule with a man who was sealed inside one...was extraordinary.  The moment of the day: When members of the public—museum visitors—spontaneously started applauding as the first American to orbit the earth walked among them. Unbelievable.

My day got better from there: I just completed the first television interview with the man who will be America's next recipient of the Medal of Honor. Sgt. Leroy Petry was here with his wife. What an unbelievable man. Wait until you hear him, and hear his story. He proudly extended his new prosthetic hand (a beautiful unit with a carbon-fiber shaft and a pliable soft rubberized vinyl hand component), and we shook hands several times over the course of the afternoon. He lost his hand throwing an enemy grenade that had landed in the midst of his platoon in a courtyard in Afghanistan. He completed two Iraq deployments, six Afghanistan deployments.  There are men alive today because of him. He will become, in July, the 85th living Medal of Honor recipient. They don't make them any finer than Sgt. Petry.  Except, perhaps, for the 84 others.

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We are moving offices. All told, it's probably a move of 400 yards to a different end of our same floor at 30 Rock. And it's a nightmare. Over the last two nights, I've sorted through six years of collected you-know-what. I've found unimaginable treasures, two mouse carcasses (under the corner of a radiator), and I found the watchband I've been looking for going back half a decade. Everything has to be packed and boxed by close of business tonight, as it all gets moved over the weekend, and then on Monday nothing will work and it will feel like the first day of kindergarten. We all have a contact high from the paint fumes in our new space, and cuts on our hands from the occasional broken picture frame or razor-sharp Staples file folder. My assistant Diane has done the work of a longshoreman with the heart of a saint. If this thing works on Monday, I'll let you know how it went. In the meantime, I intend to monitor developments from the Jersey Shore. Have a great weekend. We have something special for you at the end of the broadcast tonight, and I hope you can join us.

I've often spoken about my love of obituaries—as a way of remembering where we've been by way of remembering those who've been on the journey with us. Few are better at obituary writing than Margalit Fox of the New York Times. Her obituary today is a clinic in journalism. Read her lead. Follow the thread through to the last sentence. And along the way, you will learn about the life of a man who, while not a household name, left his stamp on every household in this country. There are great American lives being lived every day. It’s another thing to celebrate them quite the way she does.

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Capt. Jack Jacobs is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Nixon on Oct. 9, 1969 on the south lawn of the White House. Standing behind the President are Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. The old executive building can be seen in the background.

Veteran viewers and readers know one of the great blessings in my life has been the exposure I've received to the military—active duty, in the field and veterans—and especially the time I get to spend with Recipients of the Medal of Honor by serving on their Foundation Board.  The ultimate blessing is: I get to work with a Medal of Honor recipient here at NBC every day. We have become close friends, and I'd take a bullet for him—just as he took a couple for the home team during his time in Vietnam. I'd like to ask you to pay special attention to a segment airing tonight: Jack Jacobs goes back to Vietnam, to the battlefield where he sustained the grievous wounds that resulted in the Medal being placed around his neck by President Nixon. My only regret is that I badly wanted to go on that trip with him, but could not.  Instead, the honor fell to Chris Jansing, who tells the story so beautifully.  Jack will join us on the set tonight.  He is a genuine American hero.  I am blessed to know him. I hope you can join us for that segment and the rest of our broadcast tonight.

Today is for the music-minded: If you follow the industry, and especially U2, then you've read that they have drafted Danger Mouse to produce their next record. Danger (Mr. Mouse to you) is a former guest of ours on BriTunes (remember: I didn't name it), and his latest quirky release--on top of his work as part of Gnarls Barkley, and his beautiful work on Broken Bells--shows exactly the range and ability that attracted him to Bono and Edge. For U2, it will be a big change from Lanois and Eno, and while I had both musicians in front of me yesterday, I thought I'd talk about their new producer. Enjoy.

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By Amna Nawaz, NBC News

ATTOCK, Pakistan – There aren’t a lot of positive headlines coming out of Pakistan these days.

Between the bombings, drone attacks, and tensions with the U.S., it can be difficult to remember there’s much more to this country than its fight against terrorism – that there are inspired, optimistic, and determined people on the ground working hard to build better lives for the nation’s most vulnerable. 

Saba Gul is one of those people.         

After earning, not one, but two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and landing a comfortable job as a software engineer in Minneapolis, the 28-year-old Pakistani native took an unusual step. She quit her job, and moved back home.

What led her to make that leap was the decision to commit full-time to an effort she launched while still at M.I.T. – a program, called "Bags for Bliss," [ www.bagsforbliss.org] designed to keep in school Pakistani girls who would otherwise drop out because of financial constraints. 

"I felt so lucky to be at one of the best schools in the U.S. without much effort, other than studying hard and doing well," said Saba. "And girls back home go through so much just to get a very, very basic education."

The girls she first set out to help with her program are part of the Afghan Turkmen refugee population in Pakistan. Tens of thousands crossed the border after the Soviet War, but have never been granted citizenship status or the economic stability that comes with it. Many eke out a living from their traditional practice of carpet weaving – grueling and time-intensive work that yields meager returns.

As soon as they are old enough to weave carpets – often, as young as 5 or 6 years old – children are pulled out of school to work on the loom for 14 or 15 hours a day alongside the rest of the family. In this insular, impoverished community, enormous wooden looms occupy entire rooms inside modest homes. Families tell stories of waking at 5:00 a.m. to begin work, breaking for tea and one meal a day, then continuing to weave until they can no longer see at night.

Even if school is free to attend here, families simply cannot afford to forego the wages they would lose during the hours their children are gone.

So Saba designed a program designed to fill that wage gap and keep girls in school – girls, she said, who will later grow up to be more likely to send their own children to school.  

Even though "Bags for Bliss" was only launched in 2009, the program is already seeing results. Nearly 40 girls are now enrolled and dozens more are interested in joining. The program was even recognized by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a State Department function as an "extraordinary" effort.

Still, Saba’s not resting on her laurels.

"I don’t think we can say we’re making a big dent in this social problem yet," she said. "But I think we can say that we are slowly changing the lives of these girls, even if it’s just keeping them in school. That’s the first step."

To learn more, make a donation, or sponsor a student, visit www.bagsforbliss.org.