Friday, August 31, 2007

The One Year Anniversary of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll

Today is the one year anniversary of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll

and the founder of the Blogroll, Indian Chris at Right-Wing and Right Minded, has an anniversary post up that I hope you will check out

 
It's been an honor and a privilege, for me to be a small part of this.Thank you, Chris, for letting us all join you in remembering so many heroic men and women.
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And you may remember that I briefly posted this SlideShow earlier this week. I decided it was more fitting to post it here
 
(but Chris very kindly included a version of this that is much better, but I was unable to upload to YouTube, in his post on his blog. )
 
 
 
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Labor day, and Fallen Heroes

Although I'll be off of work on Labor Day itself, I'll be working this weekend. So, I'm posting this a little early, to wish everyone a Happy Labor Day!

 

I'm also unsure if I'll be able to get up a Soldiers Angels Web Surfing post, as tomorrow is going to be very busy for me, with a doctor's appt and then work. Possibly Saturday I can post that? If not, that 'meme' may just have a week off:)

We Were thinking of 'chillaxin" (as the 'young people' say,LOL:) by the pool on Labor Day itself....but we have an opportunity to participate in a Patriot Guard Riders mission near here, and we have decided that we would rather do that, as we have so few opportunities to honor our fallen with the PGR, between our work schedules and the distances sometimes involved in getting to a mission.

S.W.A.C. Girl has a post up about that fallen hero here

 
and,sadly, we had another fallen Marine from our area, who died in a training accident
 
 
Our thoughts and prayers are with their families.
 
(As far as I know, we will be attending the PGR mission honoring Pfc. Wilson, unless the PGR has a mission to honor Lcpl.Harris)
 
Since I may not make it online too much until after Labor Day, I also wanted to share a video that the VFW has put together
 

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I wish each of you a safe Labor Day weekend.

 

 

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

WEDNESDAY HERO

Welcome to this week's installment where all the member bloggers of Wednesday Hero collectively honor many of the real hero's found in this country who's names and bio's have been provided to us for these humble tributes by blogroll creator Indian Chris @ Right Wing and Right Minded.


Many of them are those that have paid the ultimate price for our country protecting it both here and abroad from the many threats we face from our enemies wishing us and them harm, some are not. In either case they are the real American heroes of today and we now both salute and offer our prayers. To join us if you wish to please start by reading the post below.(Introduction courtesy of  Chicago Ray )
 
 

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Randy Thorsvig

Ken Leonard

Ken Leonard (On The Right) From High Point, North Carolina
 
 Every once in a while you run across one of those "feel good stories". Those stories that show us just what a person can do when they really want it bad enough. And Ken Leonard has one of those stories.
 
 
 In 2005, Ken Leonard left his job as a police officer in High Point, North Carolina to go to Iraq to work with a private security firm. In December of that year, Ken, along with five other men in his vehicle and six others in the vehicle behind him, was hit by a roadside bomb outside of Baghdad.
 
 
"After the bomb went off, I knew exactly what had happened," Leonard recalled. "My feet got jarred, so I knew they were hit."
 
 
While others in his vehicle were injured, he had received the worst of it. He had lost both his feet. The vehicle behind them pushed Leonard's to a safer area. But flames were coming out of the air conditioning vents and they had to get out. Leonard crawled from the car and fell to the pavement.
 
 
"That’s when I saw my feet," he said. "I could tell they were gone. They were still attached, but they were shredded."
 
 
On July 19, 2007, Ken Leonard went back to North Carolina to get his job back with the police force. To do that he needed to pass the Police Officers Physical Abilities Test, which, among other things, consisted of a 200-yard run to be finished in under 7 minutes, 20 seconds.
 
 
 And he did just that with 24 seconds to spare. "Somebody told me one time they said, 'You know, what you've lost is just bone and muscle. You've still got heart, and you've still got, you know, what's up here,'" Leonard said, pointing to his head.
 
 
 

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

 

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

 

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go here.

 

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Soldiers Angels Web Surfing (A Bit Late,sorry)

My apologies. Between work last week, and getting my daughter ready for school? the week just kind of got away from me without me being able to post the

Soldiers Angels weekly web surf feature until today.

(on a side note,lol, I'm up for the 'evil mom' award, as I had the wicked idea of posting on the dry erase board in our kitchen "5 Days till School Starts",etc.etc, counting down the days....mostly so I could hear my daughter scream "Auggghhh!" every time she walked into the kitchen:)

And on a more somber note? It's also been a difficult week for the

Soldiers Angels Living Legends Team 

as,after a brief respite from receiving any names of the families of fallen soldiers to send condolence cards to, we sadly received far too many names at once following the helicopter crash.

Aimee, as always, remembers our fallen here

Click here: Yahoo! 360° - Life In The Northeast - Remember. . .

We hold their families and friends in our prayers.

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For other news by and about  Soldiers Angels  last week?

Soldiers Angels Texas reminds us that Christmas is coming

 
 
The Middle Ground has a great post about Soldiers Angels Kansas City at a VFW convention
 
 
 
Darn it! I missed posting about "Be An Angel Day" on Aug.22, but someone else had that covered:)
 
 
I also missed Mary Ann at Soldiers Angels Germany sharing a birthday with someone very special
 
Click here: SOLDIERSANGELSGERMANY.ORG  (and, I can't seem to permanently link to the post this morning, so please scroll down to her Aug.23 post.)
 
  Happy Belated Birthday wishes  to both Mary Ann and DJ Emory!
 
(ArmyWifeToddlerMom remembered Mary Ann, at least!Along with touting writing to our wounded troops at Landstuhl, as a nice way to honor Mary Ann's birthday.)
 
 
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There's a nice post here about one of the many ways Soldiers Angels gets involved, from a blogger I've featured before
 
 
 
And Soldiers Angels and the Patriot Guard Riders are joining forces to help a wounded soldier and his family
 
 
 
Soldiers Angels New York went off on a well-deserved break. Hope you enjoyed your vacation,Laurie!
 
 
 
The inestimable Willie in Germany posts about a Thank You at a 'new to me' blog,
German-American Friendship Bracelet
 
 
(How many places ARE you posting now,Willie? LOL. )
 
Speaking of Germany?  I received a nice email from another German member of Soldiers Angels, and you can check out her blog here
 
 
 
Jim at Thinking Right had a great update on Project Letters from Home (and Soldiers Angels are involved in that,too:)
 
 
 
Here's another new Angel:)
 
 
This is a great site, that has links to patterns
 
 
Lastly, Valour IT has a new website address
 
 
and, Fuzzybearlioness was featured on VAJoe.com
 
 
Well, that's the (belated) post.
(and maybe once we get back into the swing of things after school starts,I can be more timely with my posts,lol:)
 
Hope everyone has a good week!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

WEDNESDAY HERO

Welcome to this week's installment where all the member bloggers of Wednesday Hero collectively honor many of the real hero's found in this country who's names and bio's have been provided to us for these humble tributes by blogroll creator Indian Chris @ Right Wing and Right Minded.


Many of them are those that have paid the ultimate price for our country protecting it both here and abroad from the many threats we face from our enemies wishing us and them harm, some are not. In either case they are the real American heroes of today and we now both salute and offer our prayers. To join us if you wish to please start by reading the post below.(Introduction courtesy of  Chicago Ray )
 
 

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Kasee

 

SSgt. John Self
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SSgt. John T. Self 29 years old from Pontotoc, Mississippi 314th Security Forces Squadron May 14, 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 A kindhearted patriot. That's how SSgt. John Self was described by those who knew him.
 
"John was a good boy, a good boy who loved his country and who loved Christ and for that he’ll move on to a better place," said Laron Self, Sgt. Self's grandfather, fighting back tears.
 
 
 SSgt. Self was killed, and three other airmen wounded, when an IED hit the Humvee they were traveling in while on his 79th patrol in Baghdad, Iraq.
 
"John volunteered for this deployment while he was deployed to (Southwest Asia)," said Chief Master Sgt. Keith Morris, 314th SFS security forces manager. "We discussed this deployment via e-mail. He said he made his decision to deploy again to gain experience."
 
"He could always find the humor in anything regardless of the situation," said Senior Airman Daniel Hunsperger, a member of Self's fire team. "He believed in everything he did. This was obvious to us after learning he had only spent two weeks home between his last deployment and volunteering for this one."
 
 
On May 23, SSgt. Self was laid to rest with a crowd of hundreds to pay their respects. People lined both sides of the highway for more than 5 miles waving flags as the hundred-car procession traveled to the burial. Shouts of, "We love you John," and "Thank you, John, could be heard as the train of cars passed by.
 
"That’s a hero," Susan Chambers, one of the many mourners, said to her son as she pointed at Self's casket.
 
 
 

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

 

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

 

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go here.

 

 

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Monday, August 20, 2007

So, If you want to know what your letter means to a soldier?

Well, you can get one opinion here:)

Click here: Hard Soldier: Sleep is for suckers!

and, if his post inspires you to maybe write a letter of your own?  He's one of the

Bad Voodoo Platoon   soldiers, and their address is:

<Soldier's Name>

B Co 1/160TH INF

APO AE 09327

(and if you're wanting to write to him specifically, he's  Baker . But heck, I'm sure

Any  of the Bad Voodoo guys would appreciate some mail. 

This is, of course, the Platoon of the illustrious   JP of Milblogging.com  fame :)  

And,sadly, one of them has suffered a recent loss in his family

Click here: Ranger Sid: Home....  

My sympathy and prayers, to Sid and his family.

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If you maybe want to write a few more letters?  You can check out this post

Click here: Semper Fi, Sayce: Monday Morning News

(and Sayce's address is in the sidebar, why not send he And LCPL Sweeney a note?:)

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If you'd still rather email than snail mail? Please remember the "Letters from Home" project

It's an email project for the 1rst Battalion,1rst Marine Regiment, and you just put "Letters from Home" in the subject line of your email, and send it to

letters@thinking-right.com

So, won't you please consider sending some messages of support, one way or the other, to our troops?

(And, as always, if you want to get involved on a more long-term basis, please check out)

Soldiers Angels

where you can  Adopt A Soldier

or join one of the many other Teams

Thanks! for whatever way you'd like to show support or get involved:)

 

 

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Milblogging news

JP of  Milblogging.com (via a tip from reader Rachel) posts a link to yet another article from the most excellent Noah Shachtman

What bloggers are saying: Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security

Following up on that, I went by Wired's Danger Room blog

Click here: Danger Room - Wired Blogs

where Shachtman has updates on his blog post that are of interest, and also a listing at the bottom of all the pertinent blog posts related to this topic.

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