Please see the short video below...The Band KISS ~ Wow!!!
Seems our country has tossed these songs away also
It will do your heart good to hear this one.
This was filmed in Iraq at a USO tour of a USMarine Base.
Play it and spread it to every single person you know.
Click on or copy and paste the link below.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5MtdIO23MKM
You can't help but sing with them....

God Bless American and all our troops...

Silent Heroes.....Volunteers Honor Memorials...

Americans show respect by volunteering to wash and clean the marble, bronze and stone at the Vietnam and Korean War Veterans Memorials.

To SFC Jose Rodriguez, cleaning the memorials connects wars past and present.

“My Dad was a Vietnam Veteran, and I am a Veteran of the war in Afghanistan.”

From Freedom Team Salute - News...

Volunteers Honor Memorials

They rise before dawn to pay a special tribute to the fallen. Men and women, some Veterans and their families, gather at the Vietnam and Korean War Veterans Memorials to show their respect by washing and cleaning the marble, bronze and stone. It is a labor of love and remembrance.
“This is an honor without exception,” explained William DeBlander of Rolling Thunder, the men and women who publicize POW-MIA issues. DeBlander has been cleaning the memorials for eight years. He also organizes the cleaning among his fellow Rolling Thunder members.
Nine different groups take turns showing up at the memorials before sunrise. The cleaning goes on from April through October, from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Sundays. A U.S. Park Ranger rolls up in a golf cart to whichever memorial is scheduled for cleaning and hands out hoses, brushes and soap. At both memorials, volunteers safely move artifacts, such as letters, flowers and pictures, before cleaning the walls and statues.
As the sun breaks over the U.S. Capitol, the volunteers toil away. The scrubbing of the wall seems like a seamless coordinated movement and the hoses sometimes catch a rainbow in their spray. Early-rising tourists take pictures of the endeavor. At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial one morning, a volunteer brought the Park Ranger the ashes of a Vietnam Veteran that had been left at the wall. At the Korean War Veterans Memorial, a Korean man stopped taking pictures of the cleaners and picked up a brush to help.
Volunteers scrub the wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial despite a rainstorm.

The Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial gets scrubbed down.
“I just got off work and this means a lot to me,” said SFC Jose Rodriguez as he worked a brush in his Army Combat Uniform at the Vietnam Memorial. To Rodriguez, who is stationed at the Pentagon, cleaning the memorials connects wars past and present. “My Dad was a Vietnam Veteran, and I am a Veteran of the war in Afghanistan.”
At the Korean War Memorial, Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Ed Bredbenner walked around with a cup, picking up cigarette butts and other small pieces of debris.
“It’s the least you can do,” he explained about his cleaning duties. “It’s what’s right.”
The volunteers are dedicated to their cause. One dark morning at the Korean War Memorial, nine people showed up despite a rainstorm. At the Vietnam Memorial, the National Anthem was sung nearby to start a local triathlon. Everyone stopped and put their hands over their hearts, caps were removed. No one moved until the anthem was finished. And then it was back to work.

Arlington At Christmas

Readers may be interested to know that these wreaths -- some 5,000 -- are donated by the Worcester Wreath Co. Of Harrington , Maine . The owner, Merrill Worcester, not only provides the wreaths, but covers the trucking expense as well. He's done this since 1992. A wonderful guy. Also, most years, groups of Maine school kids combine an educational trip to DC with this event to help out. Making this even more remarkable is the fact that Harrington is in one the poorest parts of the state.

We Give Thanks for Our Military Forces Everywhere...

The right time to play this........

http://www.cpmsglife.org/tg/2006tdm1..html

See Slide Show for Veterans Day....

My Cousin, Don Fortner, Playing TAPS Yesterday for the "Veterans Day Ceremony" in Apalachicola. Special 'blessed' gift...

See Slide Show tribute...
http://www.military.com/veterans-day/veterans-day-slideshow.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

Click below....God Bless Our Military

http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm

From One Who Has Been There: Our Marine Chuckie...Thank you ALL...From: America

FOR ALL THE FREE PEOPLE THAT STILL PROTEST, "YOU'RE WELCOME"
WE PROTECT YOU AND YOU ARE PROTECTED BY THE BEST.
YOUR VOICE IS STRONG AND LOUD, BUT WHO WILL FIGHT FOR YOU?
NO ONE IS STANDING IN THE CROWD.

WE ARE YOUR FATHERS, BROTHERS AND SONS,
WEARING THE BOOTS AND CARRYING THE GUNS.
WE ARE THE ONES THAT LEAVE ALL WE OWN
TO MAKE SURE YOUR FUTURE IS CARVED IN STONE.

WE ARE THE ONES WHO FIGHT AND DIE
WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE THE WORLD, WELL AT LEAST WE TRY.
WE WALKED THE PATHS TO WHERE WE ARE AT
AND WE WANT NO CHOICE OTHER THAN THAT

SO WHEN YOU RALLY YOUR GROUP TO COMPLAIN,
TAKE A LOOK IN THE BACK OF YOUR BRAIN
IN ORDER FOR THAT FLAG YOU LOVE TO FLY,
WARS MUST BE FOUGHT AND YOUNG MEN MUST DIE,

WE CAME HERE TO FIGHT FOR THE ONES WE HOLD DEAR
IF THAT'S NOT RESPECTED WE WOULD RATHER STAY HERE
SO PLEASE STOP YELLING AND PUT DOWN YOUR SIGNS,
AND PRAY FOR THOSE BEHIND ENEMY LINES

WHEN THE CONFLICT IS OVER AND ALL IS WELL
BE THANKFUL THAT WE CHOOSE TO GO THROUGH HELL

Just 'doing his job' ...

This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helo rescue mission. The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the back end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack, on a steep mountain cliff, and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress you... nothing ever will. God Bless our military.

A Must See....Lest We Forget....

http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/hancockportraits_070702/

God Bless This Little Family!

Damien Graham.....Seisha & Richard's
new born son holds tightly to his Dad's dog tags...
his Dad is 'serving' his country in Iraq...
God Bless This Little Family!

A tribute to the Marines....

http://www.trdaniel.com/Marines/index.htm

The Green, Green Grass of.....Home!

This Army soldier in Iraq with his tiny 'plot' of grass in front of his tent is heartwarming!

Here is a soldier stationed in Iraq, stationed in a big sand box.He asked his wife to send him dirt (U.S. soil), fertilizer, and some grass seed so that he can have the sweet aroma, and feel the grass grow beneath his feet. When the men of the squadron have a mission that they are going on, they take turns walking through the grass and the American soil -- to bring them good luck.

If you notice, he is even cutting the grass with a pair of a scissors. Sometimes we are in such a hurry that we don't stop and think about the little things that we take for granted.

See this video...'tis great....thanks, Blake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0

Overworked?

The patch says "Doing the work of" ....

The flags are France, Germany, and Russia.

This SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc.

We Salute YOU!

Our Family Marine....C.M. Fernandez III

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made

a Difference in the world.

But, the Marines don't have that problem."

---Ronald Reagan

Why? Why? Why?

This pretty much says it all.

A mother asked President Bush, "Why did my son have to die in Iraq?"

Another mother asked President Kennedy,"Why did my son have to die in Viet Nam?"

Another mother asked President Truman,"Why did my son have to die in Korea?

Another mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt,"Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima?"

Another mother asked President W. Wilson, "Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of France?"

Yet another mother asked President Lincoln,"Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?"

And yet another mother asked President G. Washington, "Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge?"

Then long, long ago, a mother asked... "Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?"

The answers to all these are similar --
"So that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness and freedom."

God Bless America and our Troops...

Rest In Peace....

This is something you will never see in the news.
Here's a tough, but heartwarming story and a picture of John Gebhardt in Iraq .
His wife, Mindy, related that this little girl's entire family was executed.
They intended to execute her also and shot her in the head, but they failed to kill her.
She was cared for by John's hospital and is healing, but has been crying and moaning.
The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with,
so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair.
The girl is coming along with her healing.
*He is a real Star of the war and is representative of what America is trying to do.
The American public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that
what we're doing over there is making a difference.
Even if it is one little girl at a time.

James Gates U.S. Navy.

Click here: A Tribute to our Flag
Happy Veteran's Day, America...