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April, 2010:

Auction to Benefit Soldiers’ Angels

Apr 29th, 2010
by OH Hell.
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And a Surprise!!!…..

On Thursday 29 April,  Userved (EBay Store) will be listing Rage Company, A Marine’s Baptism by Fire (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) by Thomas Daly.  Rage Company chronicles Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines in their deployment to Ramadi, Iraq from November 2006 through April 2007.

Readers of A Soldier’s Perspective will recall the author of The SandGram,  was deployed to Iraq from February through September 2007. ( This is where I picked up the info. on this auction)

The auction will run for one week and will conclude on the afternoon of 6 May, just a few hours before Tom Daly is interviewed on You Served Radio. But what is this surprise? Keep reading!

The full details of the auction will be announced Thursday and a link to the auction will also be published at that time. Until then, start hyping the auction to your friends and family! Remember that all money raised from this eBay story goes to benefit Soldiers’ Angels and the amazing work they do to benefit all of us serving our country.   Something special to go along with the hardcover edition of Rage Company that will appear on the You Served auction block to benefit Soldiers’ Angels. The marketing department of Rage Company’s publisher,
John Wiley & Sons, has agreed to donate one Apple iPad to this week’s auction. The winner of Rage Company will also receive an Apple iPad!

How Cool is That!!!??? So when the auction is listed on Thursday,  hop on over to the You Served Auction, and bid!!!  Remember, you can’t win if you don’t play!!

Pictures Not Yet….

Apr 23rd, 2010
by OH Hell.
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Well, I was going to post pics of my hair cut for the Hair Raiser, but the file is to large (bigger is better, isn’t it? but I digress). Anyway, you can hop on over to my Facebook page and have a look at the album for the Hair Raiser. When I get the file trimmed down to size it will magically appear on this blog. Right.

You still have a chance to donate $1 to Soldiers’ Angels and get a guess on how many inches of hair I cut off. Kelly Goss, one of our Military Wives and a great Hair Stylist, did the deed and will do it again IF I RAISE $1000 !!!! IN A HIGH AND TIGHT!!!!

COME ON FOLKS -  You will spend more than $1 on junk food tomorrow – why not donate it to Soldiers’ Angels and get a chance to have me send a great goodie box to your deployed guy/gal  from the SA store?

Check out all the great programs that Soldiers’ Angels has:

  • Adopt a Soldier – Individualized support throughout deployment
  • Angel Bakers – Homemade treats for the deployed
  • Blankets of Belief - Showing deployed troops, “We believe in you!”
  • Blankets of Gratitude – Handcrafted love for hospitalized veterans
  • Blankets of Hope - Handcrafted comfort for the wounded
  • Cards Plus Team – Extra TLC for soldiers & families
  • Chaplain Support Team – Help chaplains support the troops
  • Community Team Leaders (CTLs) – Representing Soldiers’ Angels at home
  • Cooking with the Wounded – Chef-created dinners and culinary education
  • Eagle Cane Project – Handmade canes for the wounded
  • First Response Backpacks – Supplies for wounded in-country
  • Hero Packs – Care packages
  • Ladies of Liberty – Extra TLC for deployed females
  • Letter Writing Team – Personal letters for the deployed
  • Living Legends – Remembering the fallen and their families
  • Memorial Portraits - Drawings for families of the fallen
  • Operation Birthday Cake – Shipping gourmet birthday cakes to deployed troops
  • Operation Outreach - Supporting families waiting at home
  • Operation Phone Home – Calling cards
  • Operation Top Knot – Handmade gifts & virtual baby showers
  • Scarves – Handmade heat and sand protection
  • SA Germany – Supporting medevac’d wounded/ill and medical staff at Landstuhl
  • S.A.V.E. – Supporting the employment of veterans through the Angel warehouse
  • SOS:Kids – Helping deployed soldiers help local kids
  • Tank Support – Helping Veterans Travel to Medical Appointments
  • Valour-IT - Adaptive laptops for the wounded
  • VA Crochet & Craft – Handmade comfort & dignity for hospitalized Vets
  • Veterans Support – Assisting veterans facilities
  • Wounded TLC – Letters and care packages for the wounded

Contest runs till the end of April!!

Doing my bit…

Apr 15th, 2010
by OH Hell.
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to pay for some asshole’s disadvantaged person’s (free) mortgage, car and healthcare.

Working on my taxes. Can you tell?

Not High and Tight Yet!!!

Apr 13th, 2010
by OH Hell.
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I got my hair cut at the Hair Raising event for the Cancer Center of the Rockies on Sunday. It’s VERY VERY SHORT!!! There were lots of people there and it was HAIR RAISING!!!

(I still am short of the goal of $1000 – The fund raiser runs until the end of April. )  You still have time to get in the running – the winner of the drawing gets a goodie box sent to the deployed Soldier (Sailor, Marine, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard too!) of their choice. And,  I’ll throw in a Hair Raising T-Shirt for you!!!

See my post A Hair Raising Event for more details!!! Pictures will follow as soon as I get them reformatted.

Vote Early, Vote Often…

Apr 5th, 2010
by OH Hell.
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No, we are not in chicago, Dorothy.

I’m talking about the 2010 Fourth Annual MILbloggies!! I am asking you (all 2 of my loyal readers?) to scoot on over to Milblogging.com and vote for Chuck!!!  You will find his blog under the category “US Army”.

For a dose of unvarnished truth, great writing and general hilarilty, you really need to make “From my Position, On the Way” one of your daily reads.

Thanks in advance! You won’t regret it!!