Weekly Newsletter 6/15/2008
Greetings! Another beautiful weekend in Southern Indiana!
HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the fathers of service members and all the fathers who are service members! God Bless each and every one of you!
Reminders--1) Every Tuesday evening, anyone interested in walking (and talking) is invited to meet at the Thornton Park Pavilion at 7 pm for our "Tour of Iraq". If you have a loved one in Iraq, please let me know the location, I will mark it on our map, and we will be sure to stop by for a "visit" on our tour. If you have a picture of your service member, I would also like to have that, so that I may make a display with our map, our loved ones' pictures and their location in Iraq. I would like to put that in the window of the Regions Bank for the month of July! If you would also like to write a brief biography about your service member, I can include that on the display!
2) Relay For Life is scheduled for June 20-21 at the Parkview Track. I will set up the tent at 3 pm (if anyone would like to volunteer to help--that would be GREAT!!), I will hand in any other money collected for the Relay, and I will get our t-shirts. If you are a HHAFFA Hoofer, please be there by 6 pm for the Opening Ceremonies (5:30 would be better!!), and we will have our team photo taken soon after! I've sent all my Hoofers a copy of the evening's schedule, but if you need more information, please visit the Relay For Life website, or email me with your questions! In a nutshell--we meet, have opening ceremonies, we get our picture taken, we participate in as many (or few) activities as we so choose, we sit at our tent selling magnets and getting the word out about HHAFFA! It should be a good time!! If you come, bring a lawn chair, sun screen, bug spray, and a hat!
3) Be on the lookout for information about the Limestone Girls Club and their Support the Troops Week! I haven't been given any further information, except the dates: June 23-27!
4) Sunday, June 29th, HHAFFA will once again hold its Candlelight Ceremony on the west side of the Courthouse Square in Bedford to honor our troops! We will have a guest speaker, music and we will light candles to honor our loved ones in the military! I will give you the time and details, as soon as I receive them!
5) Monday June 30th and Tuesday, July 1st, HHAFFA will be participating in "The Home of the Brave", a musical production to honor our troops! Roger Gales needs help!! He still needs men or women in uniform to carry their flags on stage, and he needs 4 - 6 members of HHAFFA to hand out programs each night!!! If you can be of assistance--please let me know, so that I may pass the word on to Roger!!! Let's not let him down--this is a fabulous production!!! Also, HHAFFA will have a table set up in the lobby where we will collect monetary donations, sell magnets and collect names, answer questions and hand out our cards! If you can help out at the table either of those nights--let me know--WE need your help!!
6) Friday, July 4th, HHAFFA will again be participating in the Fourth of July parade. We need everyone to participate! Dress in red/white/blue, make signs, and lets have fun, while calling attention to our service members and our organization!!! My goal is 100 walkers!!!! Can you help me achieve that goal??? I can't do it without YOU!! --I stopped in Copy Trolley to pick up my HHAFFA business cards (where they gave me a GREAT deal, because they support our organization!!!--so please support them!!), and I was told that they would like to have a display with local service members pictures with a brief bio--name, rank, division, location, etc to display in their store! I'll be taking my son's picture and info in this week. Please take yours in this week, also!
--The Flag Day Ceremony, which was held on the Courthouse Square on Friday, was wonderful! Local government, firemen, and policemen were all well represented! Mayor Girgis did a beautiful job detailing how Flag Day was established and then singing the National Anthem!
--Come out to Wendy's on Wednesday, June 18th from 4 pm to 8 pm and 20% of the total receipts, above the normal sales, will be donated to the local Family Readiness Group for the National Guard's 76th Brigade. Join us at Wendy's in Bedford, and show your support for the troops! Items you might find interesting
--In WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people, and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America. If you would like to participate: each evening at 9 pm (Eastern Time), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens and for peace in the world. Thank you. Please pass this on.
--A poem you cannot hear too often:
I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform--so young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen".
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of Fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington,
No, freedom isn't free.
Enjoy your freedom, but NEVER take it for granted.
Make sure to keep all our military personnel and their families in your thoughts and prayers! God Bless Our Troops!
See you soon!
Nancy Peabody
HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the fathers of service members and all the fathers who are service members! God Bless each and every one of you!
Reminders--1) Every Tuesday evening, anyone interested in walking (and talking) is invited to meet at the Thornton Park Pavilion at 7 pm for our "Tour of Iraq". If you have a loved one in Iraq, please let me know the location, I will mark it on our map, and we will be sure to stop by for a "visit" on our tour. If you have a picture of your service member, I would also like to have that, so that I may make a display with our map, our loved ones' pictures and their location in Iraq. I would like to put that in the window of the Regions Bank for the month of July! If you would also like to write a brief biography about your service member, I can include that on the display!
2) Relay For Life is scheduled for June 20-21 at the Parkview Track. I will set up the tent at 3 pm (if anyone would like to volunteer to help--that would be GREAT!!), I will hand in any other money collected for the Relay, and I will get our t-shirts. If you are a HHAFFA Hoofer, please be there by 6 pm for the Opening Ceremonies (5:30 would be better!!), and we will have our team photo taken soon after! I've sent all my Hoofers a copy of the evening's schedule, but if you need more information, please visit the Relay For Life website, or email me with your questions! In a nutshell--we meet, have opening ceremonies, we get our picture taken, we participate in as many (or few) activities as we so choose, we sit at our tent selling magnets and getting the word out about HHAFFA! It should be a good time!! If you come, bring a lawn chair, sun screen, bug spray, and a hat!
3) Be on the lookout for information about the Limestone Girls Club and their Support the Troops Week! I haven't been given any further information, except the dates: June 23-27!
4) Sunday, June 29th, HHAFFA will once again hold its Candlelight Ceremony on the west side of the Courthouse Square in Bedford to honor our troops! We will have a guest speaker, music and we will light candles to honor our loved ones in the military! I will give you the time and details, as soon as I receive them!
5) Monday June 30th and Tuesday, July 1st, HHAFFA will be participating in "The Home of the Brave", a musical production to honor our troops! Roger Gales needs help!! He still needs men or women in uniform to carry their flags on stage, and he needs 4 - 6 members of HHAFFA to hand out programs each night!!! If you can be of assistance--please let me know, so that I may pass the word on to Roger!!! Let's not let him down--this is a fabulous production!!! Also, HHAFFA will have a table set up in the lobby where we will collect monetary donations, sell magnets and collect names, answer questions and hand out our cards! If you can help out at the table either of those nights--let me know--WE need your help!!
6) Friday, July 4th, HHAFFA will again be participating in the Fourth of July parade. We need everyone to participate! Dress in red/white/blue, make signs, and lets have fun, while calling attention to our service members and our organization!!! My goal is 100 walkers!!!! Can you help me achieve that goal??? I can't do it without YOU!! --I stopped in Copy Trolley to pick up my HHAFFA business cards (where they gave me a GREAT deal, because they support our organization!!!--so please support them!!), and I was told that they would like to have a display with local service members pictures with a brief bio--name, rank, division, location, etc to display in their store! I'll be taking my son's picture and info in this week. Please take yours in this week, also!
--The Flag Day Ceremony, which was held on the Courthouse Square on Friday, was wonderful! Local government, firemen, and policemen were all well represented! Mayor Girgis did a beautiful job detailing how Flag Day was established and then singing the National Anthem!
--Come out to Wendy's on Wednesday, June 18th from 4 pm to 8 pm and 20% of the total receipts, above the normal sales, will be donated to the local Family Readiness Group for the National Guard's 76th Brigade. Join us at Wendy's in Bedford, and show your support for the troops! Items you might find interesting
--In WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people, and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America. If you would like to participate: each evening at 9 pm (Eastern Time), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens and for peace in the world. Thank you. Please pass this on.
--A poem you cannot hear too often:
I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform--so young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen".
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of Fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington,
No, freedom isn't free.
Enjoy your freedom, but NEVER take it for granted.
Make sure to keep all our military personnel and their families in your thoughts and prayers! God Bless Our Troops!
See you soon!
Nancy Peabody
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