"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
~~Richard Bach
I saw on the news this morning that Mr. Snow passed away after his long bout with and the recurrence of his cancer. I am deeply saddened. I remember watching him or several occasions while he worked as the White House Press Secretary. He seemed to always keep his composure, but he was never railroaded. He leaves behind a wife and three children.
I received the following note in an email communication from Patriot Guard Riders. Please say a prayer for this family today as they take a journey to the airport for the homecoming that all military families fear. Pray that they have a lot of loving support around them at this time, and that they hear words of deepest appreciation and admiration for their beloved son.
SPC Joshua L. Plocica
US Army
Clarksville, TN
It’s with a sad and heavy heart that I must post Tennessee has lost another American HERO, SPC Joshua L. Plocica, 20, of Clarksville, TN, died June 25th, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
SPC Plocica, a Clarksville soldier, followed in the footsteps of his family members when he enlisted in the US Army in August 2006, shortly after graduating from Rossview High School. His Grandfather, US Army CW3 Michael T. True (ret), and his Uncle, Master Sgt. William C. Clark, served their Country, and SPC Plocica wanted to do his part and follow in their footsteps. Joshua would want his family and friends to celebrate his life, not mourn his death, his mom said.
He is survived by his mother Lisa Thompson, father David Corbin, and sister Brenna Corbin.
When the time came for redeployment I went through a huge array of feelings and emotions that I really was not ready for. I had envisioned over the past 15 months that when the end of my son’s deployment came up that I would feel joy, elation, relief, and happiness. Don’t get me wrong. I have certainly felt all of those feelings, more so than anything else. It’s just that they were accompanied by other feelings that took me quite by surprise, to be honest. [Read more →]
I have written many times on this blog about the fears I have had to battle since deployment. Fear of the known, fear of the unknown, fear of what lies ahead, fear of what was left behind, fears that I never knew existed. It has been a baptism by fire, to say the least, but it has been an incredible season of growth as well. Even though I am working through those fears and handling them better with each passing day, I have other struggles that are a residual affect of being in a very close and primary kinship position with a soldier who is deployed. [Read more →]
I’m reading an interesting book. It’s really a collection of stuff. “The Patriot’s Handbook” by George Grant, Ph.D. is truly a primer for each new generation of Americans. Sadly, it is not oft read these days.
Take this little jewel for instance:
All temporal power is of God,
And the magistratal, His institution, laud,
To but advance creaturely happiness aubaud:Let us then affirm the Source of Liberty.
Ever agreeable to the nature and will,
Of the Supreme and Guardian of all yet still
Employed for our rights and freedom’s thrill:Thus proves the only Source of Liberty.
Though our civil joy is surely expressed
Through hearth, and home, and church manifest,
Yet this too shall be a nation’s true test:To acknowledge the divine Source of Liberty.
- Samuel Adams
Oh my. He was so good they named a beer after him. What an honor. I’m glad it’s a pretty good beer but I would rather the honor be that this man’s spirit be found in our leaders of today.
Sadly, I think we are failing a nation’s true test.
The Patriot’s Handbook. Get one for your kids. Teach them the truth.
Mr.Hooah!, out.
The military family who is seeking damages from the “Fred Phelps of T-Shirts” (Dan Frazier) is apparently leaving no fallen soldier’s family behind. They are suing for $40B. They changed the amount from their original $10M dollar amount,
The change, requested Tuesday in federal court in Tennessee, would cover the heirs of all U.S. service members killed in the Middle East since Sept. 11, 2001, and seek $4 billion in compensatory damages and $36.5 billion of punitive damages.
It’s obvious they want to drive home the point that no fallen soldier, his/her name, likeness, or memory is a commodity. It is a treasured possession of his/her family and loved ones.
Good job. I hope they win their law suit and they shut him down for good. The sad part of all of this is they asked politely more than once for him to take their son’s name off of the shirt. This could have all been avoided if a little compassion and consideration would have been afforded them.
Instead he will get a mad minute when they give him all they have got in the court room. I am not too far from the place where this may be heard if it stays in TN. Robin and Michael Read are from Greenville, according to Fox News. I am seriously considering going that day to show the family my support.
Many of you have probably heard of the Flagstaff man who exploits dead soldiers’ names, at the grief and pain of their families, to make his political statement and exercise his free speech. He has stated time and time again that he will not stop. Basically he does not give a damn about the excruciating grief and crushing pain these families live with everyday and that he has contributed to. It would make one think that a t-shirt is more important to him than common decency and consideration.
A Tennessee family is now suing him. It’s obvious that with people like Frazier, and like the Phelps whackos, civil court will be the only way to shut them down. They refuse to show an ounce of mercy when families beg to be left alone. So, the courts will be where these families need to turn in order to have their complaints considered.
I was very sad to read just a few minutes ago that Charleton Heston has passed away at the age of 84. What a tremendous loss for us all. I was telling Mr. Hooah! that I am saddened when I see men like Heston or Reagan pass away because I don’t see anyone big enough to fill their shoes.
Where have all the cowboys gone?
Please keep his family in your prayers.