Right-Wing & Right Minded: The Story Behind Wednesday Hero

Right-Wing & Right Minded: The Story Behind Wednesday Hero

Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. My thoughts were with our troops and their familes. They must miss their loved ones ever so much more during the holidays.

I am going to post on my Thanksgiving, but I am waiting on my hubby to download pictures. HINT HINT!

Got some news. My nephew has decided to go from National Guard to active duty regular Army. Oh and yay, (sarcasm) he has decided to follow in his Dad's footsteps and request EOD as his MOS. That's a little scary.

Well more on Thanksgiving later. One last question...Have you thanked a Veteran or an active duty military person lately for your freedom? If you haven't please take the time to do so. Go visit the recruiters office, say hi thank them for their service. Or go to a VA hospital. I promise it'll put a smile on your face for the rest of the week :)

Rolling Victory Fast Time

Today is my turn for the Rolling Victory Fast. Read about it here. Thanks to my heroes. I'll never get tired of those words :)

Happy Veteran's Day

Today I went to the local park. They have a vets memorial there. It's beautiful, there is an eternal flame with marble memorials for each of the wars. This is where the Veterans Day ceremony was. To start things off there was a military plane flyover. Wow. I commented to the lady sitting by me that it always gave me chills to watch the flyovers. She told me that she was just thinking that those were WW2 planes and we had won the war with those planes. She went on to say how our planes are so high tech today and it's sad that we're losing this war. WHAT???? OK what's a Tanker Brothers/contactright fan to do but politely correct her. So I told her that we are NOT losing this war. I went on to say that I talk to our troops. I read their blogs. I told her that the media would like us to believe that we are losing the war but we are not. I told her that I don't even bother to watch the news anymore. I get my news straight from the source. I told her about MG not taking one assignment so he could go back to Iraq. And how CT was there too for the second time. How many soldiers there are that had been there and were willing to go back. The injured soldiers I've heard say they just want to go back to their units still in Iraq. If we are losing this war why would they want to go back? Who wants to fight a losing battle? I told her about the pictures of the Iraqi children posing with our soldiers smiling great big smiles. She commented on how children aren't like adults, that you see what is really in their thoughts when you look at them. She apologized for being so negative. I told her that I understood, it was all the news media chose to show us. And so if that's all we hear we will believe that. She thanked me for telling her all this.

After the ceremony I thanked some of the vets that were there. One AF guy told me that he retired after Desert Storm. I told him my brother just retired a few years ago from the AF. I told him that my brother had been in Oman during Desert Storm. He told me he had lost his entire squad while he was there. :( I told him how sorry I was to hear that. After talking to him I went on to sign a card for a guy who was recently wounded from this town. Then there was a Viet Nam Vet who had a picture album he was sharing I listened to his story. He recommended a movie "Hearts and Minds". I thanked a lady who was a WW2 vet. I told her I was grateful for her service to our country. I told her how I was so proud of our great countries military, past and present.

Happy Veterans Day to all the vets out there. Thank you so very much for your service.

Thanks to All for supporting the troops

I've already told my hubby that this is what I want for Christmas. I really want to support those who support the troops. Even if they are not our fellow Americans. Thank-you Beccy Cole. And thank you "diggers" for standing right there with our troops. I don't know how to put this on my blog but you can see "Poster Girl" here

I found this at http://www.barking-moonbat.com/

First, a little history. Beccy Cole is an Australian country music singer. Last Christmas she went to Iraq to entertain Aussie troops, “diggers” as they’re called - kinda like our “grunts”. When she returned to Australia, some fans contacted her to let her know they were taking her poster off their walls and wouldn’t buy any more of her albums - because of her support for “an unjust war”, as they called it.

Sound familiar? Yes, it’s the direct opposite of what happened to Natalie Maines. You could say Beccy is the “anti-Dixie-Chick”. Personally, I think Beccy is a downright pretty young lady with a beautiful voice. Take a look at her official web site and see if you agree.

This is something you should read about. Read the rest of it here

Merry Christmas to the ACLU

I received this email. :) This was around last year, but I think it deserves another go round, so that we more conservative types can make our point too. Christmas: This is coming early (really early) so that you can get ready to include an important address to your Christmas card list. Read on........What a GREAT idea!
Fun with the ACLU...... Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year. As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world. Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it. Here's the Address, just don't be rude or crude. (It's Not the Christian Way, you know!)

ACLU
125 Broad Street 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004

Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend 39 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that there is no such thing as a "Holiday Tree". . . . It's a Christmas Tree even in the fields!!And pass this on to your email lists. We really want to communicate with the ACLU! They really DESERVE us!!

The harvest moon

I was at my 2 younger daughters high school Home Coming game on Friday. The harvest moon was out shining brightly. It was so beautiful I had to take a picture. Too bad the wind was still and our equally beautiful flag wasn't flying straight out.

I'm not sure what that little spot is to the right of the flag. Alien space craft, Drew??? Naw probably just dust on the lens.

They creamed the other team by the way 38 to 21.

My first birthday gift

I got my first birthday gift for this birthday. It's not for 8 days but my brothers in law didn't know if we'd see them before next week so he gave it to me yesterday. It's pretty spiffy kewl. It's a cermanic pan to make~~~~MONKEY bread. And some monkey bread mix. And a red spatula, it had to be red, Jim made them take the one that was on there off and put on a red one. My kitchen is red and white, with accents of cobalt blue. So for those of you who don't know, monkey bread is a sweet dough cut into globs of dough. Then you put this cinnamon sugar mixture on the globs and put them into the special monkey bread pan:





















and then you bake it and it turns gooey sugary caramelly cinnamony yummy bread. I can't wait to try it....
I love it guys thanks so much....

Hang with Toby

This is for Linda. http://www.fordvehicles.com/hangwithtoby/ A contest to hang with Toby. I don't care about the new Ford truck, but I sure would like to go see one of his videos made. If I win Linda, you can go with me. I'm sure I'll be hit by lightning before I win, but a girl can dream.

What's with Toby's new movie??? It's not showing anywhere near me....grrrrr I don't want to wait until it comes out on video. I wanna see it NOW.

I still haven't heard from Toby yet regarding going on his next trip to Iraq :(

Rolling Victory Fast time again

YAY! It's my time to fast in honor of our soldiers. I completely believe in our presidents choices to be where we are today. I also believe in our Armed Forces. I know that they will get the job done right. I do question the media's choices of selective reporting though. There really are some great stories coming out of Iraq. You just usually have to look for them. They are not on the front pages or on CNN. Usually they are on a soldiers blog.

So any way today my fast is dedicated to: Specialist Casey Sheehan. If you haven't already read his story I suggest you do so. It's really an awesome story. It shows how dedicated SPC Sheehan was to what he was doing.There is an awesome story about him here. Thank-you Black Five for sharing SPC Sheehan's story with us.

I truly believe I am so blessed to have been born in this country. When I think about what a great life I have I also think about those who are away from their family and friends keeping my life safe and as I know it. And because I'm me, I can't help but make one small smarty pants comment :) Thanks MG and Cav Tanker and all the others for staying those dozen or so steps between me and that burka over there.

Remember if you see a member of our armed forces please remember to tell them thank-you.

In support of our troops :)-

Have you seen this guy? His story is here. Apparently he's not going to shave until Bin Laden is caught. Soooo I'm going to copy his idea. I have decided in support of the Tanker Brothers upcoming deployment, I will not shave my legs until they are home safe. bwaaahahahahahahaha. Ok just joking....

Here's to our heroes

Just a quick thank-you to all of my heroes who are here, there and everywhere. Thank you for doing what you do so we are free to do what we want to do. Thank you for keeping terrorism out of my yard. Just a little tissue alert for this video...it's a good one :)

2,996 tribute to Jorge Luis Leon

I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.....

In memory of: Jorge Luis Leon, 43, of Union City, New Jersey, quality assurance analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald.

I could find no info on the person assigned as WTC victim tribute.

It's officially fasting time

I am starting my fast. It is 12:30 pacific time. My last food was about 5 1/2 hours ago. (homemade pizza. yummm) I will be fasting until 12:00 tomorrow night. I am fasting today in memory of the 2996 victims of the WTC disaster. Also for the 2662 KIA in OIF and the 329 KIA in OEF. (Total of 2991) Heroes we lost in fighting this very necessary war on terrorists.

You can read about the Rolling Victory Fast here Go visit the Tanker brothers. They have a kewl blog. Sign up for a day of fasting. Show our boys we support them!

How to explain??

I was recently talking with a friend and she asked me: Why do you think (pausing, I believe she was thinking how to ask delicately) you uh, (one more pause) uh involved in doing all you do for our Armed Forces. (READ: why the heck are you soooo freaking obsessed with soldiers) Hmmm tough question. I know every other word out of my mouth is soldier (I'm meaning that generically for armed forces. Is there one word to describe soldiers, marines, airmen, coasties etc??) So here is an exaggerated conversation with me. Her: So did you hear about blah blah blah. me: Oh not really but let me tell you this about my soldier. Soldier, soldier soldier soldier soldier. Her: oh ok well what are you going to do this weekend. Me: Soldier blah blah soldier soldier soldier. OK it really is an exaggeration. I'm not quite that bad.
So my answer. I FEEL GUILTY for one reason. My Heroes are deployed ALL over the world keeping our country safe. Everytime I walk down to the kitchen to get some ice cream or cookies and milk or even just a drink of water. I feel guilty. I know that soldier doesn't have those option. He/she can't walk into the other room and kiss his wife. Or walk into the baby's room and watch them sleeping. Things I take for granted daily.

And the second reason. I don't know how to explain it. There is just something about angel-ing that is indescribable. That feeling when you pack your flat rate box with so many goodies. That feeling of getting a signed picture of a sports star he mentioned and sending it and other birthday goodies off to him. That feeling when you open your mailbox. And WHHHHHOOOOOO HHHOOOOOO there's FREE MAIL. I really can't explain why I do all this. How do you explain being a Soldiers Angel? No word I can think of on how it feels to be an Angel, to do things for your guys. If you want the most incredible feeling in the world go to Soldiers Angels. Adopt a soldier. But be warned ALL of your conversations will sound like this: Soldier soldier, deployed, soldier, care package for my soldiers, sometimes followed by the words NOOOOOOO don't touch, it's for the soldiers. lolololololol

Fingernails

While poking around online I found a link to a code pink web site about how a pinko fasts. I believe it came from Michelle Malkin's blog. Anyway I was reading, then read some of their tips on how to fast. One of the pinkos was saying how hard it was to fast. Then she'd look at her pink fingernails and be reminded of why she was doing it. YUCK! I love love love pink fingernails or should I say loved. She ruined it for me. So when I wnet to get my nails done I did them in a very American red. And until the Tanker Brothers come home from their upcoming deployment I will have one yellow pinky. It's my personal yellow ribbon.

Thank an Armed forces member

The other night I went to pick up dinner for hubby and I. Mmmmm Sharkeys. So I ordered and went to get salsa. I noticed a clean cut, in shape guy with super short hair. His shirt read on front: Got Freedom? and on back: Thank a Marine. So my little pea brain put 2 & 2 together and came up with: Hey this guy MUST be a Marine. He, his wife and 2 kids were at a table close to the door. So I went up (they weren't eating yet or I wouldn't have) and said: Are you a Marine? he said Yes I am. I said thank you. His wife said thanks for saying that. I said love the shirt and walked away. I suppose I should've told him how much I appreciate all of our armed forces, or something besides thanks. I wish I had said I REALLY appreciate all your sacrifices to protect our country, both to him and his wife. But I just said thanks and love the shirt and walked away. I hope he got all my well wishes in those few words...

Hey Toby

I'm still waiting for Toby Keith to contact me for his next trip to Iraq. I really wanna go Toby. As I said before I'm not talented, or anything I just wanna go and shake my heroes hands and personally say thanks. It would be soooo kewl Toby if we could go when the Tanker Brothers are still there so I could say thanks personally to them :)- Yes, to my kids, I know I'm a dork, so you don't have to tell me again....BUT I AM STILL WAITING!

I think I'm coming down with a cold :( My sister is flying in to SFO today. We are supposed to go up to see my Mom (she's gonna be 84 on Sunday, more on her when I feel better. Oh and right now she's wallpapering a bedroom) and my sister, possibly some of my cousins. Oh and the little brats too. My Mom said I should come anyway but I don't want to get anyone sick. I think I'm losing my voice :( Joe and Ali should love that. No nagging for a couple days.....

My fast is over

I decided to break my fast. I made it approximately 45 hours since I last ate and about 26 hours after the one year anniversay of Sgt Stokely being KIA by an IED. I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't make it until midnight. (But let me tell you that first bite of bread tasted so good.) I will wait until midnight to have one of those Oreos that have been calling me since yesterday afternoon.

I actually felt pretty good through the whole thing. Now I feel kind of icky. I have another fast coming up. I still think that if you haven't already you should go here and sign up for a day.