It’s coming real soon! I am looking for people in the media or affiliates to contact me. I will do my best to accommodate an ARC to those who request one.
The purpose is to review, provide feedback and possibly be quoted in the book.
Have you support a troop lately? Lisa Martin from Soldiers’ Angels has emailed me and asked if I could post this. I think this is a wonderful projecr the Soldiers’ Angels have come up with.
Our troops need a holiday surprise. Gone for another year, we need to send them some Holiday cheer. We are starting our 2nd Annual Stockings for Troops Campaign.We would like for all of the men and women in the military to know that they are not forgotten this holiday season. Please help by donating a stocking and an AT&T phone card so all our military members may call home and share the holidays with their families.
Thousands of Angels Seeking Help with Getting Holiday Stockings for the Troops
Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) October 6, 2005 — The Holiday Season is not far away and thousands of America’s bravest men and women who are standing watch over our freedom will not be home to share this special time of year with their families and friends. Sadly, there are many other deployed soldiers who have no family to send them a package or even a card.
Soldiers’ Angels, an all-volunteer non-profit organization that provides support to deployed soldiers and wounded soldiers as well as their families, is hard at work on their annual Holidays For Heroes stocking drive, where stockings stuffed with small but welcomed items are sent to soldiers who are deployed in the Middle East combat areas and hospital units.
Cash donations are urgently needed to purchase supplies as well as to help with shipping the stockings to the Middle East. Also needed are Holiday Stockings (homemade with special decorations and messages are wonderful, store bought is also great) as well as the little presents to stuff inside such as:
- Individual packets of hot chocolate, cider or hot soup mix…
- Candy (bite sized, individually wrapped, all kinds)
- AT&T Phone Cards (asking for this brand because it works in the Middle East area)
- Hand held games (playing cards, battery games with batteries, please)
- Small puzzle books
- Miniature Menorah
- Small, signed Holiday cards from you and your families simply addressed to “Soldier” or “Hero.” Homemade Cards are Welcome! Be sure to enclose your name and address.
This is the perfect project for a church, school, club, business, family or for any group to get involved and to participate!
Tax deductible cash donations to Soldiers’ Angels, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, can be made by going to the Soldiers’ Angels website at www.soldiersangels.org and clicking on the “Donations” button to donate using Paypal or by sending a check to:
Soldiers’ Angels, 1792 E. Washington Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91104
Please make checks payable to Soldiers’ Angels and make a notation that the check is for the Holiday Spirit For Heroes fund.
For drop-off locations or questions, please contact:
Becky Morton - rpmorton375@yahoo.com - (336) 227-5621
Jamie Hedman – harleyprncs0130@yahoo.com - (214) 507-3263
Judi Burns – prteam@gmail.com - (615) 676-0239
Bill Roggio is going to be heading to Iraq in a month. He has been invited to be embedded with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force. Check out his story and donate towards his cause if you can.
Goodluck Bill!
Hat tip Blackfive
As I awoke this morning, I shuffled out of bed. Got some clothes on and went to turn on my half broke computer.
I see that my house might float away due to some storm that got some ‘goombas’ from Wilma. The bird flu is like the boogy man and coming to get us….wooo, I’m so scared! The Iraq constitution has passed.
AND….
AMAZON Finally got their head out of their 4th point of contact and finally enabled my book to be pre-ordered!
So go grab your copy if you haven’t or grab another!
The woman lived a full life.
(born Feb. 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Ala., U.S.) black American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Parks attended Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) and made her living as a seamstress. In 1943 she became a member of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and she served as its secretary until 1956. On December 1, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation ordinances. Under the aegis of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the leadership of the young pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr., a boycott of the municipal bus company was begun on December 5. (African Americans constituted 70 percent of the ridership.) The boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision declaring Montgomery’s segregated seating unconstitutional. For her role in igniting the successful campaign, which brought King to national prominence, Parks became known as the “mother of the Civil Rights Movement.”
In 1957 Parks moved with her husband and mother to Detroit, where from 1965 to 1988 she was a member of the staff of Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. She remained active in the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established the annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award in her honour. In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to provide career training for young people. Her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story (1992), was written with Jim Haskins. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honour a civilian can receive in the United States.
© 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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