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Its a potluck dinner with about 40 hikers and the great folks at the Front Royal VFW Post 1860.
I've smoked up about 20 pounds of pork loin and I'm bringing BBQ sauce.

1 posted on 06/18/2013 11:50:49 AM PDT by concretebob

2 posted on 06/18/2013 11:53:41 AM PDT by humblegunner

To: BufordP; Albion Wilde; Perdogg; EDINVA; trooprally; Jonn Lilyea

PING!!! and re-PING, please

3 posted on 06/18/2013 11:54:10 AM PDT by concretebob ("For the troops? What do you need?")

To: randita; Perdogg; BufordP

Please ping your lists!

5 posted on 06/18/2013 11:56:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)

Posted this on the VA board before I saw this thread:

I’ve been following these vets on the AT (I’m an AT section maintainer near Rockfish Gap/Afton Mountain). They were at Devil’s Backbone Brewery with the Waynesboro VFW Post 2424 on Sunday. If you are not familiar with them, here are some links I’ve accumulated. The first is from Sharon Smith (trail name: Mama Goose) and if you can watch it without crying, you’re a lot tougher than I am. Then there is a video from DBB Sunday and an article Warrior Hike posted today from Outdoor USA Magazine. These vets are having a great, healing experience on the trail - being welcomed with open arms and lots of support by the trail community, the VFW posts, and everyone they encounter .... something they richly deserve for the sacrifices they have made and their efforts to help others who have paid the price for freedom.

Sharon Smith video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zEmlq969c

Warrior Hike Makes a Stop in the Shenandoah Valley
http://www.nbc29.com/story/22604937/warrior-hike-makes-a-stop-in-the-shenandoah-valley

More and More Veterans Walking Off the War
http://wwwdotwarriorhikedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/outdoor-usa-magazine.pdf

10 posted on 06/19/2013 7:31:22 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))

My comment ‘if you’re not familiar with them’ doesn’t apply to you, of course! :-) I was on the AT Saturday, hoping to see these guys/gals, but they got off just south to go to DBB so we missed them and I couldn’t attend the event Sunday - drats! I did alert a blogger in the area who does politics, etc. and she did a post for them:

http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/update-walking-off-war-at-warrior-hike.html

11 posted on 06/19/2013 7:36:02 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))

To: All; trooprally; MissMagnolia; Albion Wilde; BufordP; EDINVA; Perdogg; BostonMaggie; kristinn; ...

The hikers.

Sean Gobin, founder of Warrior Hike on the left in the black tee. Boston Maggie on the far left.

A common sight for anyone familiar with what we do.

Thats just a jar of water with peaches floating in it. Really. No, seriously, its just peaches and water.
Thats Kevin, former Marine, a member of the KCBS (Kansas City BBQ Society) and the future manager of Cooking with the Troops' Midwest Chapter.
We're already scheming, and he invited me to come out and join the competition BBQ event he has won several times. I guess I'm gonna haftago.

15 posted on 06/23/2013 9:26:38 AM PDT by concretebob ("For the troops? What do you need?")

Hated to miss it. Had a barbeque sandwich at Burger King in your honor. Compared to your cooking, it was just awful.

17 posted on 06/23/2013 11:06:46 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)

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