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Please Help Feed A Veteran! Just $10 will pay for five meals. When our Veterans Winter Shelter opened yesterday morning it was 37 degrees.  There were already about 100 homeless vets waiting to get in.  They were served a hot breakfast. We will feed them 3 hot meals a day, but we need your help.  We have the money to provide 2 meals/day.  $10 buys 5 meals. Most nights we will be at our capacity of 150 male veterans and stay there until we close April 6, 2012. Watch this short video on YouTube...

The Marine Corps has ended its controversial ban on bracelets honoring U.S. troops killed in combat. Until Tuesday, bracelets honoring U.S. troops killed in combat were considered unauthorized jewelry according to Marine Corps uniform orders. Commandant Gen. Jim Amos announced Tuesday that Marines in uniform are now authorized to wear so-called killed-in-action bracelets recognizing friends who've fallen in combat or died from wounds sustained on the battlefield. The policy is effective immed...

[caption id="attachment_5017" align="alignnone" width="202" caption="We love being able to send out checks to these great organizations. "][/caption] This is why we do this. We get to send big checks to fantastic non profit organizations that are doing great things for our Heroes and their families. Some of these organization are small, volunteer run and doing really amazing things. The money we're able to send them has genuinely dramatic effect on the work they are able to do. These groups a...

"HAPPY 4th! Love ya! P.S. Half way through the deployment-- can't wait to see all of your faces".....those were the final words from my son's last letter home in 2006. Navy SEAL Marc Alan Lee was killed weeks later on Aug 2 as he made the choice 3 different times on his final day to expose himself to enemy fire to defend his teammates and the freedoms that we as Americans celebrate this weekend. He gave the gift of life to his buddies, and the gift of his buddies to me. I write this as I prep...

RI4GI's is a nonprofit Rhode Island based organization dedicated to supporting disabled and needy veterans in Rhode Island . The organization is registered with the Town of West Warwick as a nonprofit group. Our IRS EIN is 27-1957088. http://ri4gis.blogspot.com/ . On June 26, 2011 we are holding our second annual bike (motorcycle) run. Proceeds from this event will be donated to Operation Stand Down RI. http://www.osdri.com Anything  the  Hero Bracelets could donate  will be much appreciated ...

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address I stood numb as the helicopter approached. I rubbed his chest and consoled him as he lay in the street. He squeezed my hand acknowledging that I was there with him at this final mom...

Thanks, Easter Sunday was not a good one for us.   we all worked with SSgt Day.  I'm the big one in the middle red hat. R/S David<

Having already shipped more than 620,000 gifts and annually sending an additional 100,000  care packages to service men and women in combat zones, Operation Gratitude is pleased to announce the launch of "Battalion Buddies" -- a new program designed to encourage and reassure the young children of currently deployed troops. In cooperation with Family Readiness Officers and battalion leaders nationwide, Operation Gratitude will provide special stuffed toys -- known as Battalion Buddies -- to th...

The Navy SEAL team of military operatives who killed Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Sunday night was made up of some of the best-trained troops in the world. SEAL Team Six, the "Naval Special Warfare Development Group," was the main force involved in Sunday's firefight. The daring operation began when two U.S. helicopters flew in low from Afghanistan and swept into the compound where Osama bin Laden was thought to be hiding late Sunday night Pakistan time, or Sunday ...

Wheelers for the Wounded San Antonio Chapter, is gearing up for our 3rd Annual Wheelers for the Wounded Main Event, weekend event to be held in the City of Marble Falls at the Hidden Falls Adventure Park, 7 May, 2011. Details are now posted in the Up Coming Events Section</sp