An Ordinary American has a post up about the Airborne Angels Volunteers, take a moment and go read, and if you are so moved, throw a buck or two or twenty their way. Their biggest issue is paying the mailing for packages going downrange. Trust me when I say NONE of that stuff is cheap, and NONE of it is free, regardless of whom it’s to support downrange.
We are at a critical time in these military folks lives, just as we were at the end of Nam… People back home don’t seem to care, the administration want’s em out, there are protesters and negative media coverage, and I will guarantee you the folks with boots on the ground are wondering if it’s all worth it…
We didn’t have this kind of support back then, the ONLY thing we got (if we were lucky) was something occasionally from the family (if we had one back home).
I know this is one of a bunch of organizations, but I guess this one just hits home a bit more because of the photos.
Thanks in advance.
h/t Breda
We are at a critical time in these military folks lives, just as we were at the end of Nam… People back home don’t seem to care, the administration want’s em out, there are protesters and negative media coverage, and I will guarantee you the folks with boots on the ground are wondering if it’s all worth it…
We didn’t have this kind of support back then, the ONLY thing we got (if we were lucky) was something occasionally from the family (if we had one back home).
I know this is one of a bunch of organizations, but I guess this one just hits home a bit more because of the photos.
Thanks in advance.
h/t Breda
I already have AOA on my blog roll – I’ll see of I can spare a few Jacksons for the cause.
Done.
I wish there had been this kind of support during Nam. What were people thinking back then?
God bless all the ones that serve in these difficult and trying times.
I agree that support is drying up, as people get further away from 9-11 and the strain of the effort takes it toll on the society. The support we had soon after the event was amazing, though…
I remember coming back into Fort Lewis in 2002, and the frequent sight of people on the overpass with signs saying they supported us. Always made me tear up.
Much appreciated, NFO, much appreciated.
What really got me was the letter a Sgt F/C wrote to Nancy in which he mentioned negative media coverage and the beginning of some bad/heckling treatment of troops who have rotated back home.
Not on my watch. No, sir.
I enlisted in 1979. I was trained by the Vietnam generation, who I consider the greatest generation of veterans this nation has ever produced.
Look at what you put up with both over there and when you came back home to “the world.”
Yet, you trained me, you trained my teammates and comrades and you busted your butts to make sure we were as ready for our missions as you were your own.
You didn’t gripe, complain or whine. You went about your way and your lives and your jobs just like anyone else.
Yet, you had no one to talk to when the Dreams came, memories of Bad Things.
You endured, and when we came home from Desert Storm in ’91, the first vets in line to shake hands and give high-fives were the Vietnam vets. The same ones who were crapped upon several generations earlier.
THAT is character and class, sir, and that is why I consider the Vietnam veteran the finest our nation has ever been privileged to call her own.
Thank you for plugging Nancy and Airborne Angel Cadets.
Best regards,
–AOA
North- Good point, I need to do that too!
ADM- Agreed!
JR- True- And it was mostly Nam vets…
AOA- Thank you Sir.