Archive for February 7th, 2010
My wife and I were very lucky a couple of years ago when we found the Snowball Express a non-profit organization. At the time they were looking for Travel Agents to help them with a huge event being held in Southern California. We spent many hours, as travel agents, helping them book military families to their annual event. The following year we again assisted them in making travel arrangements for the military families.
The third year we were fortunate enough to actually get our butts out to Anaheim to see, first hand, what happens at the other end of the bookings we made. Trust me when I say, you will NEVER experience anything as emotional as that. It was a mixture of sadness and joy, of a huge rush of awe at the strength of these families. It is something we will both remember forever.
After you have finished reading the above I strongly recommend you visit their web site at www.snowballexpress.org and go through the site in depth. Here is a clue. This organization is helping the families of our fallen military – all our fallen military since 9/11/2001.
It seems to me that there may be something very wrong with the way people are thinking these days.
When I was young, so many years ago, we did things like play tag, dodge ball – you know, fun stuff.
My parents taught me right from wrong and NEVER to lie.
When I messed up a homework assignment or a test and the grade was marked in Red, it didn’t damage me in any way. I was being taught about life.
Playing in sports began to teach me Team Work, not back stabbing. When I served my country in the Army I was taught the importance of communications. We all told jokes and funny stories and sometimes they were not “”politically correct”", as the term goes today. What a stupid term!
We had a lot of trust in our government, but, our representatives really screwed that up.
So, what do we do now? GET INVOLVED – PLAY NICE – REMEMBER RIGHT FROM WRONG – DON’T LIE – COMMUNICATE!
So for now that is all I am going to say.
And that’s my view.
If you want to fax your Senators or Congressmen and Congresswomen and don’t have a fax machine you can fax, online for free at the link below.
Fax Zero
Although their is a limit to the number of pages and the number of faxes you can send per day, it is Free and I have used it successfully.
I found a great site that has everyone’s fax numbers. At one time there were a great many email addresses also, however, I believe that the public “burned up” some email servers over the past years so most of the email is now done via mail forms on the individual’s web site.