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  • With two cats in the yard

    Occasionally, good things happen to you when you don't expect it. A couple of days ago I got a late invite from The Welcome Home Project co-producer and really great guy Craig Hillis to attend a lunch with one of their Voices of a Grateful Nation partne...
  • The Ballad of Captain Z

    As previously mentioned in our last post, the Project Valour-IT fundraising contest is going on until Veterans Day November 11th http://soldiersangels.org/index.php?page=project-valour-it. My wife Patti and I are blessed to have broke bread with the Zieig...
  • Valour-IT

    I first met Captain Chuck Ziegenfuss in Washington DC at a milblog convention and Valour IT event when we donated our 1000 voice activated laptop at Walter Reed in 2006 and even though we haven't spent a lot of time together I consider him a really good f...
  • Stand Beside

    There are many situations in life where we find ourselves outside of our comfort zone. I have learned since being back that the more I am in my comfort zone the better I respond to certain situations. In the past few years I have become more shy and not a...
  • Goss is BOSS!

    The past couple weeks have been for lack of a better term OVERWHELMING! This can be measured on both the positive and negative side of the spectrum. I had thepleasure to travel to Tacoma Washington to represent Soldiers Angels as they prese...
  • I Met A Man

    I first met MSG Colton at a Soldiers Angels convention in San Antonio in 2005. He was there because he had received SA support while he was deployed and wanted to pay it forward. Shortly after our first meeting Craig was deployed again and we have kept i...
  • Carbon Dioxide Stress Test

    SFC (ret) Nunn, Toby is up in Ft. Lewis and was pretty psyched up about the PTS and TBI seminar that he and Soldiers Angels participated in and I expect he'll be burning up the candles later and putting his experiences and emotions down on the keyboard li...
  • ???

    It's thankfully raining in Texas. Toby is up in the sunny Pacific Northwest. Today the whole world is tipsy turvey. McDonald's supports the Olympics. Fox News is fair and balanced. Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Early this morning I bought a newspaper...
  • Emails From The Front

    Ma'am,I wanted to write and thank you for your continued support of my team. Also, I wanted to share a quick story with you about the impact your organization makes in our lives. A couple of weeks ago, I was at Combat Outpost Zerok in the province of Pakt...
  • A+

    Sometimes when your slugging your way through the trenches of life you miss the smell of the the roses as you pass by. It's hard to see the blue skies and sunshine when it's raining cats and dogs. Some days are better then others. God has a unique sense o...
  • May No Soldier Walk Alone

    Things have been crazy around here and I mean crazy. Toby has been locked and loaded and on a mission since he returned from Las Vegas and Washington DC last week. Ask us how we're doing? We're swimming with sharks (Jeff) and living the dream (Toby) at t...