p.s. I watched your story again last night.You guys were awesome! Truly, awesome.
Posted on 05/30/2005 8:40:59 PM PDT by The Mayor
p.s. I watched your story again last night.You guys were awesome! Truly, awesome.
LOL!
God Bless them one and all!
Military Monday(on Tuesday) following four days of patrioism.. does it get any better? Hope all Finest FRiends have a good day.. Again covered up until I take my bro to airport.. and then covered up in different ways..
Thanks for the thread Rus & all who visit be blessed with the company of good people
Hi Dolly.. Yup I gotta go do some work..
See ya's tonight.
and yesterday someone who called one of the radio talk shows also brought this up
There is no national memorial dedicated to those who fought and died during WWI.
I heard there were 50 WWI vets still alive, they talked about two of them one in Virginia who is 103 yrs old and enlisted in 1917 at the age of 16 (i guess he lied about his age to get in)
And another who lives in Maryland and is 105 yrs old. now since these and 48 others still survive, I'm wondering if a movement could get started up towards the establishment to erect such a monument?
I mean I know there is no possibility of getting it up while there are still veterans of WWI as these 50 heroes are close to if not over 100 yrs in age and are not much longer with us, but I feel there should be a tribute to them and thier fallen comrades along side the the memorials for WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
What do you think? And how do you get a project like this started?
Thanks for the thread Mayor, and terrific Tuesday wishes to Billie,all of you!
dutchess, thinking of you & your community the past couple of days...
Finally a beautiful weather day!
T'was a GREAT weekend filled with opportunities to attend Memorial Day presentations in our area. I took in three different events and the best came last. I Got Kissed...
The temperatures were in the eighties as I watched and listened to the speakers at the ceremony held at Lakewood Memorial Park. Flags had been place on all veterans gravesites. Large flags were place along all the pathways - flags which once covered the caskets of local veterans were donated to the cemetery in memory of family members who served in our Armed Forces. As one speaker noted, there is nothin' that looks better than those beautiful red, white and blue colors.
Towards the end of the program, a slight breeze came up and caused those flags to gently flutter. That's when I got "the kiss." Old Glory, on the pole next to me, reached out an kissed me on the cheek.
I Loved that, Diver Dave!
U.S. Air Force
Airman Theresa Hochstein
Staff Sgt. Matthew Hochstein
Sister, Brother Reunite in Iraq
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By U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Melissa Phillips
407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq, May 31, 2005 — An airman here got quite a surprise when she got off the plane in a forward-deployed location in Southwest Asia in transit to her final destination here.
It was the smiling face of her brother, Staff Sgt. Matthew Hochstein, an aerospace ground equipment technician with the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron who is deployed from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
“I mentioned to him that I was going to stop there (and gave him my plane’s mission number), but I didn’t expect for him to be waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs when I exited the plane,” said Airman 1st Class Theresa Hochstein, a supply technician with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron here.
She had planned to call him later that night when the group of airmen she was traveling with was dismissed to rest before their next flight. The encounter was their first meeting since Christmas.
Since this is her first deployment in her two-year tenure with the Air Force, the airman stocked up on advice from her big brother who has been deployed five times in his military career.
“He told me about some of the things he saw during his past deployments, and that gave me a better idea of what I was getting into,” said Airman Hochstein, whose job is to supply airmen here the tools they need to maintain and improve their work areas.
While at her brother’s deployed location, Airman Hochstein took him along with her to the base exchange to purchase a few last-minute things.
“He said for me to get the little stick-up air fresheners,” said Airman Hochstein, who deployed from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. “I didn’t understand why until I got here.
“These tents are really old; the air fresheners really help because if you put them in the air vent then the whole tent will smell good,” she said.
Airman and Sgt. Hochstein are the only two out of six children who are in the military.
“It was nice to see him and that he was doing well,” Airman Hochstein said. “I’ve always looked at the challenges I’ve faced in my career as, ‘If Matt can do it, so can I.’”
Sergeant Hochstein said he thinks this deployment will be a good experience for his little sister.
“Now she gets to meet new people, travel the world and see many different things and cultures,” he said.
Although she has traveled a world away from her hometown of Hartington, Neb., her family is always close in her thoughts.
“We’ve always had a close family, and I’m the farthest away,” she said. “I have five brothers, and they mean the world to me.
“I tell my friends and family that this is a chance to really make a difference, and this is one of those sacrifices that you can see the direct effect that it has on so many people,” Airman Hochstein said.
Editor’s note: Some information obtained from 379th Air Expeditionary Wing public affairs.
Airman 1st Class Theresa Hochstein gives her brother, Staff Sgt. Matthew Hochstein, a hug at a forward-deployed location before she boards a flight to Tallil Air Base, Iraq. They had not seen each other since December in their hometown of Harington, Neb. She is a supply technician with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron at Tallil and is deployed from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. He is an aerospace ground equipment technician with the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron and is deployed from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Desiree Hayden
Hope everyone had a memorable Memorial Day weekend.
Last night we watched PBS' "Bataan Rescue". Heartbreaking, what those POWs endured. :( It was very emotional - narrated by some of the suvivors of that camp, as well as some of those who risked their lives to get them out.
Thank you, brave men and women, then and now, for your sacrifices for our country.
Billie! So good to see ya! Hope you had a fantastic weekend with lots of troop-love stuff to see and do! I had to work, but coming here to visit and see all the beautiful tributes was good enough to get me all *teary-eyed*!
Thanks for remembering our soldiers!
I found out today I lost a friend in Afghanistan, he was killed last week.
Freedom isn't free!
God bless...
What terrible news. Wouldn't this be the third person that you have lost over there this year?
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