Master Sgt. Benjamin Abbot, theater aerospace command and control specialist, 103rd Air and Space Operations Group, watches as his mother, Mrs. Iris Arenson-Fuller, executive director of Thursday’s Child Inc., present a check for $1000 to Ms. Donna Rivera of the Conn. National Guard Family Program Oct. 13, 2009 outside Ms. Rivera’s office in East Granby, Conn. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Jefferson S. Heiland)