[COB1]

To Houston Freepers:

The VFW of Katy is having a Blue Grass Festival on November 14.
The tickets are seven dollars.
All the proceeds go to helping disabled vets.

Did y'all know that our vets lying in the veteran's hospitals don't even have body soap to bathe unless someone donates it?
Did you know that some of those outside the hospital who have doctor's appointments don't even have money for bus fare to get there?
Did you know that unless someone donates some eyeglasses to them, a lot of them can't even read the newspaper?

Does it sound like I'm on another crusade?

YEP! MORE LATER..............

[Flyer]

Good music for a good cause. Can't go wrong there.

[WVNan]

A BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL! Now you're talking my language. We produce Bluegrass festivals all the time. Every third Sat. we produce the River Valley Opry, an evening of good Bluegrass in the old downtown theater. Lots of fun.

[LadyX]

You know this tragedy is one close to my heart.
Spending an hour or so in any VA Medical Center is an eye opener and heartbreaker, Cobby.

EVERYONE ought to go there to see for themselves the vacant, resigned eyes and faces, worn out and needing just a simple conversation to make them feel like human beings.

How many of you agree with those kinds of words, and just go back to your routines of living, forgetting the momentary pang??

Waiting for our respective appointments one afternoon, a 50-ish fellow sitting next to me revealed he lives in a VA home in Southern Georgia, transported to Augusta for treatment.
That revealed psychological damage as well as physical, and we talked pleasantly more than an hour.

When he was called first to see his doctor, he was glowing and had a spring in his step.
It costs nothing but a little time and 'normalcy' for him to FEEL like a human being and a man.

Bless you, Cobby, for challenging the audiences.

[humblegunner]

The VFW of Katy is having a Blue Grass Festival on November 14.

I'm there.

[ladyinred]

Is your new crusade getting close to beginning? (hope hope)