3 posts tagged “support”
This is 30 minutes of music and pictures memoralizing over three years of continuous
Friday night gatherings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.
It has been my honor and a privilege to have been a small part of this trubute to our brave
soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen serving.
Please allow time to view the whole thing and allow as many of your team to see it as possible.
From the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic and the DC Chapter of Protest Warrior please accept our sincere thanks for your service.
Never forget that you are always in our thoughts and prayers.
| March to Washington |
| Blog this website and view videos of the Resolve to Win March (after March 1st) at the VFW National Website: http://vfwwebcom.org/ResolveToWin/. Please sign the Guestbook at the bottom of this page. |
| UPDATE: JANUARY 2008 Marc, Carl and I are all safely back in the US and have returned to our "retired" role. Please check out the updated route of our march to Washington, and join us along the way. Your participation for an hour or a day, or just standing along the march route waving the American Flag, is needed to show your support and "Resolve to Win". |
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As a soldier leaving Iraq after a one year tour of duty I have very mixed emotions about leaving here. I think all of us who volunteered to come here had hoped to see this situation in the Middle East resolved satisfactorily during our period of service. Now there is such a turbulent political climate in the US, the future is totally uncertain. What can we do now? Out of desperation and an intense desire for the American people to understand the perspective of those who have served here, I have an idea, perhaps as drastic as volunteering to come out of retirement to do a tour in a combat zone. So, maybe if you are a Patriot, this idea will appeal to you as well. Along with several cohorts here in Iraq, LTC Marc Breslow and MAJ Carl Heerup, we are planning to march from South Carolina to Washington DC during the month of March 2008. The reason is to show support for the Troops and the Mission of the Troops. The purpose is to demonstrate resolve to do a difficult task and to create a dialogue about our National "Will to Win". We firmly believe that you can not support the Troops without supporting the Mission which the Troops are asked to give their lives for. The Troops are resolved to win and over 3900 brave men and women have sacrificed their lives for America and for victory. Sacrificing your life demonstrates the greatest possible sacrifice and resolve. The march will cover over 400 miles, but if it were not incredibly challenging, it would mean nothing. To honor the resolve and sacrifice of those who have died here, we must “Resolve to Win” in Iraq. To protect our way of life and insure that our children do not have to re-engage this enemy in 5 or 10 years, we must "Resolve to Win", here and now.Of course all of America wants the troops to come home. Every Troop in Iraq and Afganistan wants to come home, but NOT before victory is achieved. Please do not misunderstand, this is NOT a political or partisan position. Our level of "National Will" has the potential for far reaching consequences more significant than partisan politics. This issue transcends political issues and is far more important than who is elected as the next President of the United States.Not since WWII has America demonstrated the resolve to do whatever it takes to defeat the enemies of our nation. At Iwo Jima, we lost 6,891 young men in three weeks. The Mothers of America did not loose their courage and determination; they kissed their younger sons and sent them to replace their lost brothers. That is why they were the Great Generation. That was Resolve! America’s continued greatness depends on it. The young American men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan can be America’s Next Great Generation and America needs to know it. I would like you to consider marching with us and helping to demonstrate, by your presence, that the silent majority supports our Troops, the mission of our Troops and has the "Resolve to Win" against our enemies. A “Core Group” is being identified, who are committed to walking the entire distance. “Regional Group” participation along the way, we hope, will be provided by civic groups who support this effort. If you have the “Resolve to Win”, I invite your participation in the Core Group, Regional Groups or individually anywhere along the way. Please see the March Route and Schedule for details. With a good turnout we can generate a fair amount of public awareness to this effort before the fact and increasing support / awareness during the 18+ days that it will takes to reach Washington, DC from the South Carolina Stateline. Target date for this march is starting on the 1st of March, which will coincide with the next Congressional Testimony by Gen Petraeus in mid March 2008. I believe we could have quite a number of people out marching with us, for a few miles, all along the route and providing local media coverage of their participation and support to this effort. Marc, Carl and myself are all career military retirees who volunteered for recall to active duty for service in Iraq. Specifically, we are representing the active duty military, retired military members, over 25 million military veterans, AARP senior citizens and million of other Americans who want to WIN in Iraq. I believe that if we ask them to join us along the way, they will. Will you? |
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Rush in a Hurry is up at DCProtestWarrior
Good stuff.
Rush appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." The free transcript and audio and video are posted.
Stay updated on the mission at TankerBabe's site.
Friends, I know eveyone is constantly bombarded with requests for money, send stuff there, send stuff here. I hate it. I hate being asked and I hate asking.
What I hate even more is finding out a soldier is cold or hungry. Yeah yeah, it goes with the job..but we can do something to help. We can make the desolate hopeful. We can do the work SOME politicians WON'T do.
We know how. We have the resources. We have the will. We know how to make a difference in the lives of the soldiers deployed on the front lines of the War on Terror. The men of the 173rd 2-503 and the 1st 91 are on the front lines of the fight to end the terror. They are taking the heat for us, and no one has asked us to sacrifice one single thing.
With the surge in Iraq working, Al-Qeda is going to cut their losses and re-focus their efforts on the Afghan-Pakistan region. That means these men will be working even harder. They will be facing the evil that murdered 3,000 innocent people on 11 September 2001. They will be the ones with the bulls-eyes on their backs. They will die for us if asked.
WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR THEM??????
TankerBabe and I are doing everything we can with the resources we have, and I want to thank everyone who has stepped up and made a difference.
But we need more. I'm sorry, but the fact is WE NEED MORE. We need more balaclavas, more scarves, more socks, more boots, more blankets. We need them NOW. We needed them yesterday.
PLEASE, for the sake of these brave men standing 12,000 feet on a mountain, do what you know is right. Help us take care of these brave warriors. No one else will. The politicians sure as hell won't.
If not us, who? If not now, WHEN??? Winter is coming. The Afghan mountains are brutal. Suppose it was your son? Your husband?
You know what? They are. Everyone of those men is family. We need to treat them like family.
Now, just to make things simple, if you look to your left, you'll see an avatar for US Cavalry. Clicking on that will take you straight to USCav.com. How sweet is that? You can help a whole bunch of brave Americans protecting us and you don't even have to leave the house. It doesn't get any easier or any better than that.
You can use Coupon Code USCCJ10 at checkout and save 10%
Now, just to make it even easier, here's a few links to the gear on USCav that the soldiers have asked us for:
Balaclavas
Gaiters
You can scroll down on these pages and if you're so inclined, there are some other winter items they could use.
For the price of a dinner out, you could outfit one soldier with gear to keep him warm and alert while he's doing his job protecting us by ridding the world of the scum-sucking islamo-fascists who, if given the opportunity, would kill every American they could.
I've been asked for addresses; I cannot and will not release the addresses of any deployed soldier. I will however, give you an addresss to ship to until we get things finialized with USCav;
Attn; concretebob
1 West Cary Street
Richmond, VA 23220
