48HourPrint.com Donates Printing Services to Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation

During his nearly 14 years, before succumbing to a neuromuscular disease, Mattie Stepanek wrote six volumes of Heartsongs poetry and a Just Peace collection of essays and correspondence with former President Jimmy Carter, all of which made the bestseller lists. His poem, “For Our World,” a message of peace Mattie penned on September 11, 2001 in response to terrorist attacks in which he lost several friends, has been translated into nearly 50 languages. A Peace Celebration on Sept. 3 at the Peace Garden in the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Park near his home in King Farm, Rockville, Maryland, will mark the 10-year anniversary of the attacks and kick off the foundation’s Pathways to Peace program.