Have you seen a Great example of American Patriotism?
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Janet Race's students in art classes wrote the names of the military honorees, from the Texas 99.1 web-site, on yellow ribbons and hung them from a tree in front of the junior high.
Nice job!. Thank you!
**Wow here's a poor example of Support for our troops!**
Letter Emailed to us: Subject: Ft Hood POWs Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:52:50 -0500...(Thank Goodness this turned out all right!)
Hello everyone. As you probably already know, 2 of Brian's former platoon members, Ron Young & Dave Williams, have been captured by Iraqi troopers when their aircraft landed in the wrong area.
Dave Williams' wife, Michelle,
lives here in Killeen. The wives of 1/227 went to all of the surrounding stores & restaurants asking if they would give Dave's wife & children gift certificates for food or merchandise.
Every place they went gave over &
beyond what was asked. McDonald's gave $150 in food certificates to Dave's family and also stated they would cater all FRG (Family Readiness Group) Meetings and provide child care w/Ronald McDonald. These meetings take place
once a month, but what a nice gesture.
However, the only restaurant that absolutely refused to give any form of certificate was Red Lobster. They
informed that if they "did it for his family, they would have to do it for every family that had a crisis."
This was an outrage considering this business is only open because Killeen is a military town. Upon hearing this, one of the wives whose husband also is a pilot with 1/227, was livid. She waited until the next business day at
12:30 PM and marched in Red Lobster and asked if she could speak with the manager. She asked their reason why they refused to donate a certificate for
$20, $10, or even $5 for Dave's wife & children to eat and was told the same lousy excuse.
That's when she got really loud. Now you have to know, lunch time here in Killeen is very busy and most restaurants are filled with large tables of soldiers eating together. She started telling everyone in the restaurant
that Dave was currently a POW and that Red Lobster wouldn't donate even $5 to his family to eat on.
Entire tables of 10-15 people, both soldiers & civilians, started to get up and walk out. One LTC stopped and asked her what was going on. When she told
him, he looked at the manager and said he wouldn't be back and would tell everyone he knows not to eat there again. I just wanted to let everyone know that I won't be eating at Red Lobster either.
Ron Young, one of the POWS, was a very close friend to Brian & me. Madeline called him "Ms Ron". I hate to say that I only met Dave & his wife, Michelle, twice and didn't really get to know them. They had only been with the Unit 2 months before Brian left
It infuriates me to no end to know that a restaurant does not support our troops. Especially when the majority of those that eats there are soldiers and their families. I never really cared for Red Lobster anyway, so it's not
going to put me out not eating there EVER AGAIN. Thank God, we have always liked McDonald's, because we will be eating there a lot more.
Nicole Johns
Some restaurants who gave certificates: Outback, Tia's Tex Mex, Chili's,Olive Garden, TX Road House, El Chico, Poncho's, Applebee's,Bennigan's, Boston's.
Between the field where the flag is planted there are 9+ miles of flower fields that go all the way to the ocean. .The flowers are grown by seed companies. .It's a beautiful place close to Vandenberg AFB. .Checkout the dimensions of the flag.
The 2002 Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions as described in Executive Order #10834. .This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars comprised of White Larkspur. .Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; Each Stripe is 30 feet wide. .This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers. .You can drive by this flag on V Street south of Ocean Ave. .in Lompoc, CA.
Aerial photo courtesy of Bill Morson
