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Wordless Wednesday – Stand Up For Heroes – Say Thank You on Veteran’s Day
Say Thank You on Veteran’s Day! ReMIND.org Stand Up For Heroes, NY, NY! used with permission: image taken by Marcos Rivera and is property of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR. As a part of attending the Stand Up For Heroes event, Sears Holdings provided my travel, accommodations and a FlipCm to capture on-site footagebyColonel KonWednesday, November 10, 2010Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMilitary Life:Col K,military family,Stand Up for Heroes,Wounded Warriors
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What We Share with the Military Community
Last week during the fantastic Stand Up For Heroes program in New York we had the pleasure of attending with several military bloggers. We all came to see and report on how the Bob Woodruff Foundation was supporting our wounded Heroes and enjoy an evening in the Big Apple. We had a fun time, if not hilarious, listening to entertainers supporting the troops but then I realized I had fun for another reason! I was around military folks and those who cared about them! We were there on a mission to tell the world about this exceptional effort to support the troops and their families (funds raised that night and…
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“We Honor Those Who Serve”
This is Veteran’s Day week and MilitaryAvenue has been featuring some wonderful recognition programs for veterans leading up to Thursday’s celebration of service! During our hectic visit to New York last week for Stand Up for Heroes, MilitaryAvenue had the opportunity to interview a fellow disabled veteran, Mr. Thomas Aiello who is now the Division Vice President, Public Relations for Sears! Sears has announced some great Veteran’s Day initiatives and other superb programs that highlight their support to the military community! I had my socks blown away by some of the efforts Tom mentioned and that I have read about! By the way, it is hard to blow away one…
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Tradition, Home, Strength and Character: Sears Heroes at Home Registry
Do you remember your kitchen growing up as a kid? I can see the Kenmore refrigerator… a prize possession in the corner. No other color available at the time than white. Mix Master purchased as a huge anniversary gift to Mom along with a variety of small appliances. Items that made it possible to have family gatherings of the magnitude that the Johansens did. Food streamed from our kitchen in Palisades Park, NJ. Mom learned to fill the house with marinara sauce from the Italian neighbors to the right, Polish stuffed veal pockets recipe came from the left. We never had boiled potatoes an fish without a fresh Norwegian remoulade…
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MilitaryAvenue meets Bob Woodruff – Stand Up For Heroes
War is not a pretty subject. Neither is fear, deployment, amputation, separation, PTSD. Others start wars, individuals receive the trauma. Others can turn off the horrors, by switching a TV channel, some try to change position in a wheelchair. Life. We take it or we value it. I sat face to face with Bob Woodruff, a man who was at the pinnacle of his career 5 years ago. He was offered the opportunity to talk about the war as he accepted the co-anchor position on ABC News. The table where we sat was so polished that I could see his reflection perfectly, and remembered what it was like seeing him…
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It’s Friday! or is it…
Hip Hip Hooray! It is Friday. Oh but wait…It is a long drill-weekend for hubs… Funny how that can curb my enthusiasm. Hubs left this morning at 6:30am and will return late Sunday night. So our Friday morning was a bit ‘off’ simply because he does A LOT of the work when it comes to getting the boys ready for their days. (I am blessed!) So imagine my smile, the lightness of my step, the pure spark of joy when I saw little notes in each of my boys lunchboxes as I started to pack them this morning. It is the little things that can start a day out on…
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The Story of an Impulse Buy
MMmmmm… I went grocery shopping today. I was being so good. I made a list. I dug through coupons. I ate lunch. (I have an AFRTS* commercial permanently stuck in my head from high school about not shopping when you are hungry.) As I strolled the aisles of the store I came to a sudden halt. I could NOT pass up the Pillsbury Mini-Graham Cracker Crusts. /Total Impulse Buy/ Cupcake-sized graham cracker crusts calling my name. Telling me to fill them with homemade pudding. Add a dollop of cool-whip. Put some fall-themed sprinkles on them. It all played out before me in the aisle of the grocery store with a cart already…
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Stand Up For Heroes – An Interview With Bob Woodruff
“Everything we can do to help them” “I was surrounded by heroes!” Two quotes from Bob Woodruff during MilitaryAvenue’s interview that showed how he much he cared about the troops! Deb and I had a wonderful and refreshing opportunity as military bloggers on Wednesday to meet and interview Bob Woodruff, founder of the Stand Up For Heroes program in its fourth year in New York. Bob, an ABC news correspondent, injured by an IED in Iraq on January 29th, 2006 credited the heroes around him on that day for saving his life as he entered “the tunnel” with a severe traumatic brain injury. After the IED went off, a fire…
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Neighborhood Heroes Can Have Help – Stand Up For Heroes
The newsroom: we invite it into our homes each day and night, presumably to feel the pulse of the nation, catch a glimpse of the world and often taste a nugget of political sinew. But we stick with a particular channel because it sounds right, and looks good. ABC had the forum set with pizzazz in December 2005. Bob Woodruff stepped into America’s kitchens, bedrooms, libraries, living rooms, hotels and bars worldwide. The new co-anchor face on the evening news was our pulse point to calm and crisis in our world. Then things changed. And when change blasts in, emotions ignite. New acronyms became all too familiar: RPG, HEAT, IED…
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The Three Wise Men
I can appreciate a comment I read recently from MilitarySaves* A lack of planning can set you back financially and cause undue stress through the holiday season. Have a reality check with your money and plan accordingly before the temptation to overspend is here in full force. Who wants to be spending for Christmas in April? So before the holidays and all the “emergencies” in between, sit down and write down a separate plan for your holiday money and commit to sticking with it. My husband and I are thrifty. But I recognize the emotion that I tie to shopping. I LOVE getting out of the house on a Sunday…
