Soldiers Angels Web Surfing

My weekly surf of the web for news by, and about, Soldiers Angels

I start out with very sad news today, via Soldiers Angels Germany

 Recovered

The news that the bodies of Sergeant Alex Jimenez and Private Byron W. Fouty(who were kidnapped along with PFC Joseph Anzack during an ambush in May 2007),have been recovered.

Anzack's body was recovered earlier this year.

 Our thoughts and prayers are with their families.

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 Life in the Northeast posts the names of other recent Fallen Heroes in her July 5th Remember... post.

 Keeping the families and friends and fellow soldiers of all our Fallen Heroes in our prayers,also.

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 Before continuing with the 'surf', I wanted to remind you that you can always find the latest major blog posts by members of Soldiers Angels anytime at blognetnews.com/soldiersangels

and so I have lately been altering my Soldiers Angel Web Surf to try and highlight the posts I come across by lesser known Angel bloggers.

 

 For instance, an Angel whose blog I've mentioned before has heard from her Adopted Soldier :)

Penny Sanford blogs Yippee! We heard from our Adopted Soldier!

 

A 'new-to-me' Angel blogs about becoming a member of Soldiers Angels in this post New Button on her blog All About Kimberly and she has a brother who is currently serving in Iraq.

 It turns out that July 12 is his Birthday! as she posts here on His blog http://tommienotes.com/?p=44

So why not stop by and wish her brother a Happy Birthday!

 

Quilts and a quilting Angel were the subject of this news article from an online TN news outlet: Woman seeks volunteers to make quilts for wounded soldiers

 

and then a quilting Soldiers Angel who is retired from the Air Force and a current military wife blogs on Sew Bee It Quilts for the Troops

 

Lastly, 'Brat', posting at Soldiers Angels New York introduces us to a 109 year old Every Day Hero

 

That's the 'surf' for this past week, thank you, as always, for taking the time to stop by and check out the links.

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Wednesday Hero

Sgt. Kenneth J. Schall 22 years old from Peoria, Arizona 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division May 22, 2005       "It was very tough not to be touched by him in some way," said Terri Schall, Sgt. Kenneth Schall's mother. Kenneth Schall was enrolled at Glendale Community College and was studying to become a history teacher when the country was attacked on September 11, 2001.    The event spurred him to join the Army. He served a four and a half month tour in Iraq in 2004 and returned in February of 2005.   Terri Schall last spoke to her son on Mother's Day in 2005. "He sounded great — tired — but he said he was doing OK", she said.   Sgt. Kenneth Schall died when the Humvee he was riding in was involved in an accident in Yusafiyah, Iraq. Along with his mother, Sgt. Schall is survived by his father and two younger siblings.    

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. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Tags: Wednesday Hero, US Army, Military, War on Terror

More on MOMENT OF THANKS

Via the  Soldiers Angels website :

Moment of Thanks is a special website where anybody can personally thank America's Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines for their service and sacrifice. Soldiers’ Angels has teamed up with Shezoom.com to support their goal of sending 100,000 support messages via the Moment of Thanks website.  To ensure the troops themselves see the encouraging messages, Soldiers' Angels has been given postcards about the site from SheZoom, which will be included in the care packages sent to deployed service members.

Sponsored by Kodak and led by SheZoom.com, Moment of Thanks offers several ways for people to share their heartfelt wishes with the troops, including uploading videos and photos, and sending written messages. It also includes messages of gratitude for the troops from stars of the entertainment, sports and politcal world.

It's so important for our troops to know they are loved and appreciated for their service, so please check out the Moment of Thanks website and leave your message of thanks for all our service members do for us. If you're a service member yourself, please visit and take at look at all the grateful Americans who value your service!

For more about the idea behind Moment of Thanks, you can listen to founder Stacey Artandi on a SpouseBUZZ podcast.

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UPDATE:  Here's our Thank You we posted there   http://momentofthanks.com/node/526

 

 

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Project Healing Waters

Because of a story in our local paper

Wounded Find Healing Waters by Jenny Jones, Daily News-Record

I found out about This very worthy project

Project Healing Waters

Please go read more about them, they are doing great work!

(and there's also another good article from the Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Streams of Solace for Injured Vets by Rex Springston

 

 

Soldiers Angels Web Surfing

My apologies, the SA Web Surf didn't appear last week, because I was quite busy with the Soldiers Angels Living Legends Team

There were 56 US casualty announcements sent out by the DOD for the month of June, 29 soldiers fallen in Iraq and 27 soldiers fallen in Afghanistan, and the Angels on the Living Legends Team worked diligently to support the families of each of them.

 Our thoughts and prayers go out to each of those families.

On June 22, Life in the Northeast posted some of the names of those fallen soldiers in her Remember... post, and you can find out more about those soldier's lives at the Living Legends Team Fallen Heroes blog.

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I am also in the process of making some changes in the Soldiers Angels Web Surfing.

Wednesday Hero

Click Image For Full Size   Lance Cpl. Julie Martinez       Lance Cpl. Julie Martinez, a radio operator with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, checks the communication capabilities during a backload of Marines from Combat Logistics Regiment 3 to the USS Essex June 9.    

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 Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

 

Tags: Wednesday Hero, US Marines, Military, War on Terror

Book Review: I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

Just finished reading I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White and this is an amazingly uplifting and hope-filled book.

In 1984, Jerry White lost his leg in a landmine accident while on vacation in Israel. He later became a co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network, which has recently changed it's name and broadened it's mission to become Survivor Corps

The book is a compilation of Jerry's own experiences and the lessons learned in surviving by many other people he's met, and it's subtitled "5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis".

The book breaks down the keys to surviving and Thriving during that survival, into the 5 steps,which you can find listed on the website for the book, and for me, that was part of why I felt the book would be such an invaluable tool for anyone recovering from a cataclysmic loss in their life. Because of my volunteer work with Soldiers Angels , I was particularly thinking of wounded soldiers while I was reading this book.

Many wounded soldiers refer to the day they almost lost their life in combat as their "Alive Day", and although Jerry doesn't use that term in his book, I found this sentence on page 7 that seems to epitomize what "Alive Day" means...." I want to encourage all of us to honor our toughest dates - the tragedies that bind us - in an effort to transform victimhood into survivorship."

The book does a wonderful job, in my opinion, of giving practical advice for How to "transform victimhood into survivorship",and is also filled with the stories of How so many Other survivors of tragedies have done exactly that.

It's an easy read, and I would recommend it highly to anyone who is currently facing a life-altering tragedy in their life, or the life of someone close to them.

 

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