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WASP
 
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a paramilitary aviation organization. In 1943 they were created when the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) were merged together. The female pilots of the WASP ended up numbering 1,074, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties. They flew over 60 million miles in every type of military aircraft. The WASP was granted veteran status in 1977, and given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Some 25,000 women applied to join the WASP, but only 1,830 were accepted and took the oath. Only 1,074 of them passed the training and joined. Thirty-eight died flying in the WASP You can read more about WASP  here 

 These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero. 

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The Forgotten 14
 Samuel Gerald Dean, Edward Joseph Wolbers, Radamés E. Cáceres, Douglas Laurent Dauphin, Bert Garland Sauls Jr., Kenneth N. Markle, Louis Karp, James Henry Henderson, Douglas Vincent Schmoker, Howard George Sewell, George M. Durrett, Robert H. Watson, Harold Edwin Richards &James Dixon Fore
 December 22nd, 1943   Three days before Christmas in 1943, two hours past midnight, 14 men climbed into an airplane and lifted into the dark sky over the slumbering hamlet of West Palm Beach. Their journey lasted but a few moments, and killed every one of them.
You can read more  here and here


 These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.

 Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look

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Capt. Linda Bray   53 years old from Clemmons, North Carolina  988th Military Police Company
 
Capt. Linda Bray made national headlines when she became the first woman in U.S. history to lead troops into combat during the 1989 invasion of Panama. As a result she was met with a lot of resistance and anger to what she had accomplished because she was a woman. Bray and 45 soldiers under her command, nearly all of them men, encountered a unit of Panamanian special operations soldiers holed up inside a military barracks and dog kennel. They killed three of the enemy and took one prisoner before the rest were forced to flee.
You can read more about Capt. Bray here


 These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.

 Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look


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Visit to National D Day Memorial

After participating in the Patriot Guard riders mission on June 7 (see previous post)
we headed down to Bedford,Virginia to visit the National D Day Memorial

The link to the pics we took is  Here

and here's 2 videos that Tony took

Patriot Guard Rider mission in June

Way late in posting this, but back on June 7 we were finally able to participate in a
Patriot Guard Rider mission..this was a happy one, escorting wounded warriors with
  Project Healing Waters to a fly fishing invitational at Mossy Creek

We got up Way earlier than I would ever normally get up on a Saturday off work,lol, and of course we don't have a bike, we put our car flags on our 'cage' as they call it

                                  and joined the other riders

getting ready to head out

None of the videos I took turned out :(  We ended up bringing up the rear of the caravan, but I do think some of the pictures below show just how awesome it is to see one of these escorts! The town of Bridgewater had up a welcome sign

and flags lining the street

               
  and these pictures are after the escort has ended, when everyone continued to the end of the road after the Project Healing Waters vans had turned off.

It's been too long since we've been able to go on a Patriot Guard mission, and it was so wonderful to be part of this one! :)

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Cpl. Tom Jones, Jr.  89 years old from Hogback, New Mexico  3rd Division, Unit 297, Navajo Code Talkers 767 and Navajo Code Talkers 642 Platoons  1925? - May 12, 2014     
Another Navajo Code Talker has passed away. Tom Jones, Jr. passed away on May 12.
 Be warned, reading the article below will make you angry. The conditions these men, these veterans, live in is just unforgivable. You can read more about Cpl. Jones  here  


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Stan White  94 years old from Albuquerque, New Mexico    
 Albuquerque veteran Stan E. White, a Pearl Harbor survivor who was injured during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, was awarded the Legion of Honor, France's highest decoration, according to Perry Bendicksen, Honorary French Consul for New Mexico. Although he was raised in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, White was a 19-year-old athlete and cowboy living in New Mexico when he enlisted in the Army. He said he saw it as an opportunity for travel, adventure and education. He ended up with a life he never could have predicted. You can read more about Stan White here


 These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.

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