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Remember the vets....

Don't let our heros from the past and our military now be forgotten... let'em know we're behind'em

I'm always 100% behind them. We have a program over here called "Fishing for Heros." I took a soldier and his dad fishing last Friday before he gets deployed to Iraq.

I will never forget!

That to me is the best thing anybody can do is just spend time with... I was in Iraq March 2,2003 to January 18, 2004.... upon leaving the Marine Corp. I visited several families of my buddies (deceased) and one thing they always remember is the support they recieve from their friends, family, and good red-blooded americans like your-self... it is appreciated.

is there a web-site where I can find out more about that.??? point me in the right direction..

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Originally Posted by TheToledoBendBomber (Post 5718)

is there a web-site where I can find out more about that.??? point me in the right direction..

http://www.fishingforheroes.com/

Darlene and CajunBob are some really good folks.

cool... thanks for the info for sure...checkin into it right now!!!

That blows me away!!! thats got to be the most unselfish thing I've seen in awhile!!

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Originally Posted by TheToledoBendBomber (Post 5722)

That blows me away!!! thats got to be the most unselfish thing I've seen in awhile!!

Definently....I'm gonna tell everyone I know as well...

Thhat sound like a great program to give back to those who gave so much.
Hua 11-B
They are the reason we can sit behind our computers and BS with fellow outdoorsmen and do the things we do in our great country.
Remimber vets not only on Memorial Day

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Originally Posted by LittleRob (Post 5738)

For sure!:flagUS:

1st Mar. Div. 31st MEU 0311-Grunt(leatherneck)

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Originally Posted by TheToledoBendBomber (Post 6003)

1st Mar. Div. 31st MEU 0311-Grunt(leatherneck)

Thank you for your service!:cheers:

We couldn't do it with out the support people like ya'll...thank you

Army 11-B straight leg infantry hua (grunt)

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Originally Posted by LittleRob (Post 6142)

Army 11-B straight leg infantry hua (grunt)

Thank you too!:cheers:

Remembrance...............

[SIZE=3]COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
Walt Whitman [/SIZE]

Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door, mother, here’s
a letter from thy dear son.http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com...jpg?w=128&h=86
Lo, ’tis autumn,
Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages with leaves
fluttering in the moderate wind,
Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and
grapes on the trellis’d vines,
(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent
after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful,http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com...jpg?w=128&h=89
and the farm prospers well.

Down in the fields all prospers well,
But now from the fields come, father, come
at the daughter’s call,
And come to the entry, mother, to the front door come right away.
Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous,
her steps trembling,
She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor
adjust her cap.
Open the envelope quickly,
0 this is not our son’s writing, yet his name
is sign’d,
0 a strange hand writes for our dear son,
0 stricken mother’s soul!
All swims before her eyes, flashes with black,
she catches the main words only,
Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast,
cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
At present low, but will soon be better.
Ah, now the single figure to me,
Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all
its cities and farms,
Sickly white in the face and dull in the head,
very faint,
By the jamb of a door leans.
Grieve not so, dear mother (the just-grown http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com...jpg?w=128&h=82
daughter speaks through her sobs,
The little sisters huddle around speechless and
dismay’d),
See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will
soon be better.
Alas, poor boy, he will never be better (nor maybe
needs to be better, that brave and simple soul),
While they stand at home at the door he is
dead already,
The only son is dead.
But the mother needs to be better,
She with thin form presently drest in black,
By day her meals untouch’d, then at night
fitfully sleeping, often waking,
In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with
one deep longing,
0 that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent
from life escape and withdraw,
To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com...png?w=128&h=84
son.
http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com...jpg?w=128&h=94 http://pjbottoms.files.wordpress.com....jpg?w=74&h=96

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Hey ya'll check this clip and realize what these guys do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLZyaE7tBY

USMC 1990-1995 VMFA-232, VMFA-235 Semper Fi

Thanks to all of you guys who served!! I am humbled to be in the presence of true heroes. If not for the bravery and selflessness of the folks in the armed forces, we would have nothing.

Was lucky enough to be on a flight with a couple of ole boys coming home from over there the other day. I never got to speak to them nor did I want to bother them but you should have seen the welcome committee that they had on arrival! I wish I had my camera out. It was a great sight!

My hat's off to you guys!