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Topic: Love & thanks ~ to our beloved Soldiers...
cutelildevilsmom Joined Sat 04/07/07 Posts: 8862	Wed 04/09/08 08:53 PM
here to hug a soldier and dash out..

HasidicEnforcer Joined Thu 12/20/07 Posts: 10235	Wed 04/09/08 08:54 PM
This is about my boyfriend, whom is finally on his way home: That is, if they can find a new contracted airline, since the one he was supposed to take home is currently bankrupted. Former resident injured in Iraq Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:06 AM EDT — Staff Sgt. James H. Sackett received minor injuries. By Brittany Husted Daily Telegram Staff Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. Army soldier who attended Adrian and Tecumseh schools received minor injuries Wednesday while serving in Iraq. Staff Sgt. James H. Sackett, 34, attended Adrian schools until 1991 and graduated from Tecumseh High School in 1994. According to his mother, Linda Belote of Tecumseh, Sackett was sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle when it was hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. There were three passengers in the vehicle, all of whom received little or no injuries. Sackett is part of D Company of the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, which is part of the 1st Infantry Division based at Fort Riley, Kan. He has been in the Army for almost 15 years, serving more than a year in Iraq. He is due to arrive back to Fort Riley on April 7. He has two daughters, Alexis, 15, and Samantha, 7, who live in Texas.

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Wed 04/09/08 09:15 PM
This is about my boyfriend, whom is finally on his way home: That is, if they can find a new contracted airline, since the one he was supposed to take home is currently bankrupted. Former resident injured in Iraq Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:06 AM EDT — Staff Sgt. James H. Sackett received minor injuries. By Brittany Husted Daily Telegram Staff Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. Army soldier who attended Adrian and Tecumseh schools received minor injuries Wednesday while serving in Iraq. Staff Sgt. James H. Sackett, 34, attended Adrian schools until 1991 and graduated from Tecumseh High School in 1994. According to his mother, Linda Belote of Tecumseh, Sackett was sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle when it was hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. There were three passengers in the vehicle, all of whom received little or no injuries. Sackett is part of D Company of the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, which is part of the 1st Infantry Division based at Fort Riley, Kan. He has been in the Army for almost 15 years, serving more than a year in Iraq. He is due to arrive back to Fort Riley on April 7. He has two daughters, Alexis, 15, and Samantha, 7, who live in Texas. thank you for posting this... i am very sad that your boyfriend got injured... but so glad that his injuries were minor....

HasidicEnforcer Joined Thu 12/20/07 Posts: 10235	Wed 04/09/08 09:16 PM
thank you for posting this... i am very sad that your boyfriend got injured... but so glad that his injuries were minor.... Thank you! He is on his way home now! I am so excited!

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Wed 04/09/08 09:16 PM
here to hug a soldier and dash out.. yes...soldiers are so strong and muscular.... so very good to hug ...

lurchs_sister Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 9433	Wed 04/09/08 10:21 PM
Putting this up for Zanne46 who's son is a Marine Brett!! Semper Fi OOH RAH!!

zanne46 Joined Sun 07/01/07 Posts: 5610	Thu 04/10/08 05:31 AM
Putting this up for Zanne46 who's son is a Marine Brett!! Semper Fi OOH RAH!! Thank u Vicky... you...for always thinking of me and my wonderful son... OOHRAH Semper FI... I love you..

lurchs_sister Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 9433	Thu 04/10/08 08:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90UPLLo6nY Do you really want to mess with some one that can do this? "Some people spend an entire life time wondering if they made a difference; Marines don't have that problem." Former President Ronald Reagan

HasidicEnforcer Joined Thu 12/20/07 Posts: 10235	Thu 04/10/08 09:00 AM
I love watching stuff like that! I am so proud of my honey! And my younger sister (Marines) my older brother (Air Force) and both my fathers (I was adopted.) who served in the Army.

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:03 AM
thank you for posting this... i am very sad that your boyfriend got injured... but so glad that his injuries were minor.... Thank you! He is on his way home now! I am so excited! Yahoo !!! ...he's coming home... that is very very good news !!!

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:05 AM Edited by Rapunzel on Thu 04/10/08 09:06 AM
Putting this up for Zanne46 who's son is a Marine Brett!! Semper Fi OOH RAH!! Yay! OOH RAH For Both of Zanne's Sons... Cheers

HasidicEnforcer Joined Thu 12/20/07 Posts: 10235	Thu 04/10/08 09:06 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90UPLLo6nY Do you really want to mess with some one that can do this? "Some people spend an entire life time wondering if they made a difference; Marines don't have that problem." Former President Ronald Reagan Here's a little something for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMCnAT2bT0E "FREEDOM isn't free for a soldier"

lurchs_sister Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 9433	Thu 04/10/08 09:10 AM
Remembering the Vets! Military music man Thousands of records in his collection By Joe Chapman Tri-City Herald FINLEY, Wash. - In Bobby Dale Albers' family game room, which doubles as a clubhouse for Combat Veterans International Chapter 3, sits a collection of several thousand vinyl records. Among them are about 2,000 country records formerly owned by the old Kennewick radio station KSMK. The company that owned the station Albers worked as a DJ for had bought out KSMK, and he was in the right spot to walk away with the collection. "They were going to trash the entire library, and I said, 'Aw the hell you will. You see that pickup out there? You put every one of them albums in that pickup,"' recalled Albers, 58, of Finley. Junking an entire record collection would have been sacrilegious, he said. So Albers, a Vietnam War veteran for whom the phrase "gone but not forgotten" is more commandment than motto, took it upon himself to rescue the station's stash. It's now a key ingredient in a smorgasbord of 20th century music he keeps at home in his clubhouse. He built the clubhouse himself about 10 years ago, and it's part musical showcase, part tribute to the armed forces and part hangout where you still can shoot pool, dance, drink and smoke all under one roof. Aside from a jukebox on the east wall, his music collection almost entirely fills the shelves on the building's west wall. Vinyl LPs are alphabetized on shelves and categorized by old country, rock, Christmas, international, instrumental and other genres. He's also got eight-tracks, 78s, CDs, cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes and the equipment to play them. Each record he pulls from the shelf seems to turn a page in pop culture history. "There's albums up here, for instance, we can go back to Chuck Berry ... who's one of the originators of rock 'n' roll," Albers said, selecting Berry's Johnny B. Goode record from the shelf. The cover showed Berry clutching a guitar low while he stooped over with knees bent. "I don't know if he still ca n do it, but he used to be able to do that goofy dance," Albers reminisced. The Big Band era of the 1930s and '40s is accounted for in records by the likes of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. In a more literal sense, Albers' albums of President John F. Kennedy speeches and Edward R. Murrow newscasts are actual archives of history. Many of the records unlock personal memories for him. "I've got an old, old record - I don't know if I'll be able to find it right away - it's an old record I came across that my mother had," Albers said scanning the old country section. Then he spotted it, a 78 record by Hopalong Cassidy called The Legend of Phantom Scout Pass. "It used to scare the snot out of me when I was a little boy," Albers recalled. "I found that record amongst my mom's collection, and that's so cool." He hasn't embraced digital music formats completely, but he does have a computer on which he listens to old country and rock on an Internet station called Country Bear. He was surprised, he said, to learn that old country and old rock could blend so well when mixed in a format like that. He admits the value of music on the Internet, even CDs, lies in the convenience, in the ability to find obscure music from way back, or in the ability to listen to it on the go, as on an MP3 player. But for him, playing records is more of a participatory pastime than listening to music that has been "cleaned up." On an LP record, you may only get to listen to five songs before you have to turn it over and play the other side. On a 45 or a 78 - precursor to the LP - you'll probably only get one song per side. But Albers savors flipping the disc, lowering needle onto vinyl, and hearing the crackle in the speakers as the song winds up. Or, he listens for the soft click of the 45 falling into place after he selects a song on his jukebox. He scoffs at the thought of a jukebox playing CDs. "The personality is lost when you take it and you digitalize it," Albers said of music. "You take all the fancy electronic equipment they have now, and you take all the hisses and the cracks and stuff out of it, and it loses something in there. To me, it does." He's not the only one who thinks so. Jim McGuinn, owner of Hot Poop music store in Walla Walla, said playing a record has a ritual to it that's not there with CDs or MP3s. He recalled a customer whose son would take the vinyl record from the sleeve and blow the dust off just as he had seen the dad do. More than simply playing records, Albers also finds satisfaction in the gathering and the storing of them. Much of his collection was given to him by people who didn't have space to keep it anymore. And he and his wife, Cathie, keep watch for interesting albums whenever they stop by used music stores, thrift stores and yard sales. "He's looking for certain songs once in a while," said Tom Johnson, owner of R&P Records in Kennewick. "He likes country pretty much. He's not too partial to the modern country." Albers, who decorated his clubhouse with several versions of the MIA-POW emblem, said buying a good record album is like saving somebody. The record may be of an artist who was popular at one time but now sits on a shelf, verging on obsolescence. And listening to the music helps him connect with those who are no longer living. It may be that he remembers a loved one when he plays a particular song - Bing Crosby's Silent Night, loved by his late wife, Mary, for instance, or I Can't Stop Loving You by Don Gibson, a favorite of his mother. He also feels a closeness to the old-time artists themselves. "It's an odd feeling to listen to someone who has passed on, but you're listening to their recording," Albers said. "And it's like they're there right there in that room with you."

iam4u Joined Fri 10/13/06 Posts: 30096	Thu 04/10/08 09:10 AM
GOD BLESS ALL OUR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN, AMEN... FOREVER LIVE ON!

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:16 AM Edited by Rapunzel on Thu 04/10/08 09:20 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90UPLLo6nY Do you really want to mess with some one that can do this? "Some people spend an entire life time wondering if they made a difference; Marines don't have that problem." Former President Ronald Reagan My Goodness that was extremely impressive... whew... there are No words to compare with that kind of amazing ability & discipline

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:25 AM
Remembering the Vets! Military music man Thousands of records in his collection By Joe Chapman Tri-City Herald FINLEY, Wash. - In Bobby Dale Albers' family game room, which doubles as a clubhouse for Combat Veterans International Chapter 3, sits a collection of several thousand vinyl records. Among them are about 2,000 country records formerly owned by the old Kennewick radio station KSMK. The company that owned the station Albers worked as a DJ for had bought out KSMK, and he was in the right spot to walk away with the collection. "They were going to trash the entire library, and I said, 'Aw the hell you will. You see that pickup out there? You put every one of them albums in that pickup,"' recalled Albers, 58, of Finley. Junking an entire record collection would have been sacrilegious, he said. So Albers, a Vietnam War veteran for whom the phrase "gone but not forgotten" is more commandment than motto, took it upon himself to rescue the station's stash. It's now a key ingredient in a smorgasbord of 20th century music he keeps at home in his clubhouse. He built the clubhouse himself about 10 years ago, and it's part musical showcase, part tribute to the armed forces and part hangout where you still can shoot pool, dance, drink and smoke all under one roof. Aside from a jukebox on the east wall, his music collection almost entirely fills the shelves on the building's west wall. Vinyl LPs are alphabetized on shelves and categorized by old country, rock, Christmas, international, instrumental and other genres. He's also got eight-tracks, 78s, CDs, cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes and the equipment to play them. Each record he pulls from the shelf seems to turn a page in pop culture history. "There's albums up here, for instance, we can go back to Chuck Berry ... who's one of the originators of rock 'n' roll," Albers said, selecting Berry's Johnny B. Goode record from the shelf. The cover showed Berry clutching a guitar low while he stooped over with knees bent. "I don't know if he still ca n do it, but he used to be able to do that goofy dance," Albers reminisced. The Big Band era of the 1930s and '40s is accounted for in records by the likes of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. In a more literal sense, Albers' albums of President John F. Kennedy speeches and Edward R. Murrow newscasts are actual archives of history. Many of the records unlock personal memories for him. "I've got an old, old record - I don't know if I'll be able to find it right away - it's an old record I came across that my mother had," Albers said scanning the old country section. Then he spotted it, a 78 record by Hopalong Cassidy called The Legend of Phantom Scout Pass. "It used to scare the snot out of me when I was a little boy," Albers recalled. "I found that record amongst my mom's collection, and that's so cool." He hasn't embraced digital music formats completely, but he does have a computer on which he listens to old country and rock on an Internet station called Country Bear. He was surprised, he said, to learn that old country and old rock could blend so well when mixed in a format like that. He admits the value of music on the Internet, even CDs, lies in the convenience, in the ability to find obscure music from way back, or in the ability to listen to it on the go, as on an MP3 player. But for him, playing records is more of a participatory pastime than listening to music that has been "cleaned up." On an LP record, you may only get to listen to five songs before you have to turn it over and play the other side. On a 45 or a 78 - precursor to the LP - you'll probably only get one song per side. But Albers savors flipping the disc, lowering needle onto vinyl, and hearing the crackle in the speakers as the song winds up. Or, he listens for the soft click of the 45 falling into place after he selects a song on his jukebox. He scoffs at the thought of a jukebox playing CDs. "The personality is lost when you take it and you digitalize it," Albers said of music. "You take all the fancy electronic equipment they have now, and you take all the hisses and the cracks and stuff out of it, and it loses something in there. To me, it does." He's not the only one who thinks so. Jim McGuinn, owner of Hot Poop music store in Walla Walla, said playing a record has a ritual to it that's not there with CDs or MP3s. He recalled a customer whose son would take the vinyl record from the sleeve and blow the dust off just as he had seen the dad do. More than simply playing records, Albers also finds satisfaction in the gathering and the storing of them. Much of his collection was given to him by people who didn't have space to keep it anymore. And he and his wife, Cathie, keep watch for interesting albums whenever they stop by used music stores, thrift stores and yard sales. "He's looking for certain songs once in a while," said Tom Johnson, owner of R&P Records in Kennewick. "He likes country pretty much. He's not too partial to the modern country." Albers, who decorated his clubhouse with several versions of the MIA-POW emblem, said buying a good record album is like saving somebody. The record may be of an artist who was popular at one time but now sits on a shelf, verging on obsolescence. And listening to the music helps him connect with those who are no longer living. It may be that he remembers a loved one when he plays a particular song - Bing Crosby's Silent Night, loved by his late wife, Mary, for instance, or I Can't Stop Loving You by Don Gibson, a favorite of his mother. He also feels a closeness to the old-time artists themselves. "It's an odd feeling to listen to someone who has passed on, but you're listening to their recording," Albers said. "And it's like they're there right there in that room with you." that is a real sweet story... thank you so much for sharing it

lurchs_sister Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 9433	Thu 04/10/08 09:28 AM
thank you for posting this... i am very sad that your boyfriend got injured... but so glad that his injuries were minor.... Thank you! He is on his way home now! I am so excited! My heart goes out to you! My prayers go up for you and him!

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:29 AM
I love watching stuff like that! AMEN, me too ... I am so proud of my honey! i bet you are... i have someone special in the war, too... And my younger sister (Marines) my older brother (Air Force) and both my fathers (I was adopted.) who served in the Army. cool... thank you so much for your love & support

Rapunzel Joined Tue 08/22/06 Posts: 16246	Thu 04/10/08 09:34 AM Edited by Rapunzel on Thu 04/10/08 10:22 AM
GOD BLESS ALL OUR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN, AMEN... FOREVER LIVE ON! AMEN... thank you Terry for stopping by for your love & prayers & enthusiasm for our troops i see nothing more important than our awesome ~ courageous ~ selfless Troops who put themselves in harm's way to protect our Country & all of us & to enforce & protect Freedom & respect for all human beings with the grace of Our Almighty Heavenly Creator there will be peace once again in our vast & diverse & very fair lands but until then.. Our Troops are there to keep the enemy at bay the Troops are the ones putting themselves on the line for each & every one of us every day & every night & there are no words adequate to express enough gratitude

lurchs_sister Joined Mon 10/08/07 Posts: 9433	Thu 04/10/08 10:03 AM
****************************Some of these are hard to take so Mothers and Ladies be ware*********************************** THEY LIVE AND BREATHE THIS STUFF FOR US!! cadences http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHtVBN--AoU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxrmr4nJgqA&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVFlolrA7Wo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Z-_Z3Bh_0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lFuosEE-0&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fjKz_azNUg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc45-txNZtE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyUmvEFjXY&feature=related