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FORT HOOD SOLDIERS on 2nd TRIP TO IRAQ

Sun, Jul 26 2009 10:07 | Ft. Hood, Fort Hood, supporting our heroes, Ft.Hood, US Army, Borger TX, Momma Marine., Iraq, Momma Jodi, Soldiers, support, Iraq Updates, fibromyalgia, U.S. Army | Permalink
We have picked up some more Soldiers to mail to in Iraq. A mom contacted me and told me about her son's battalion that is on their 2nd deployment to Iraq. She mailed to them on the last deployment but this one finds her suffering from fibromyalgia and not able to shop, pack or send very much. Momma Marine offered to help and we have now received the list of names for 115 Soldiers deployed from Ft. Hood. Momma Josephene has spoken with her son in Iraq and told him that Supporting Our Heroes is taking up the slack and she reported back "He told some of the other soldiers that you all were helping me.....Girl, you have my Ft. Hood battalion with smiles on their faces. GOD BLESS YOU FOR HELPING. This is the time when they start missing their families, including my son. Thank you for putting a smile on their faces."

If you would like to send cards, letters or donate something to go in their Support Boxes, PLEASE send them to us or call and we'll come pick them up. We do have Donation Drop Boxes in Borger, Fritch and Stinnett, TX . The locations are listed on the "How You Can Help" tab to the left. We will need more, more, more to be able to cover the Ft. Hood Battalion like they deserve along with the others already on our list. We have also added a few other Marines and Soldiers that have been emailed to us from some of our Hero Supporters.

These are our Sons and Daughters, Moms and Dads, Aunts and Uncles, Cousins, Nieces and Nephews, don't hold back, email or call WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT to help fill our weekly SUPPORT BOXES. And don't forget, we are sending to MEN & WOMEN.

GOD BLESS YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR HEROES!
Semper Fi,
Momma Marine
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Is it safe here?

Fri, Jan 2 2009 03:52 | VP Dick Cheney, AmericInn Hotels, Borger TX, Secret Service, Pampa TX | Permalink

Sent in by Lisa Turnbull with AmericInn International Lodge and Suites. (Pampa Texas is about 26 miles east of Borger, the hometown of Supporting Our Heroes.)


Well I thought you might get a kick out of what happened to me when I was in Pampa, TX a couple of years ago.  I work for AmericInn International, a hotel chain based in the Midwest.  One of my jobs is to do sales and marketing for new hotels coming on line and visit the area BEFORE the hotel opens.  Since the Pampa hotel wasn’t opened yet, I had to look for a room outside of our chain and one of our company’s policies is that we can NOT stay in hotels that have exterior corridor entrances, meaning you can access the door from the outside of the building and that they don’t have an interior hallway.   When I was on line looking to book a hotel room in Pampa for the pre-opening, I didn’t have much of a choice and had to book a room at a hotel that only had exterior entrances.  My only other choice at the time was to stay in a hole in the wall hotel or drive 2 hours round trip everyday to Amarillo, which I really didn’t want to do.

 

So I load up my bags, hopped on a plane from Minneapolis and off to Pampa, TX I go.   Pampa is a relatively small town, about an hour outside of Amarillo and the AmericInn, when completed, was the first new hotel there in over 20 years.


Anyway, I drive up to this hotel and hesitantly get out of my car.  I am very nervous, which is unusual for me, as I travel 38 weeks out of the year by myself and think of myself as one smart/tough woman (until today).   Walking in confidently, shoulders back, chest out, here I go…it can’t be all that bad, can it?  Well to my dismay the lobby is PACKED with a bunch of burly looking, hard ass men and I thought I was going to faint, I can’t stay here, I said to myself, I will get strangled, raped, something horrible is going to happen to me, eh gads, I must run!  But no, I thought I would just slowly walk up to the front desk and show them that I wasn’t scared (yeah, right), and check things out.  So as quietly as I could, I said to the gal behind the front desk, “am I going to be safe staying here”,  as I looked back over my shoulder at the group of men.  To my horror, she started cracking up and laughing so hard it seemed like forever before she could compose herself.  Then she looked at me and said “miss, you couldn’t be safer any where in the world, you see all those guys there, they are secret service agents for VP Dick Cheney who is in town, and you just happen to have 2 of them on either side of your room”,   Oh my gosh, did I ever feel like an idiot…so, it goes to show you, don’t always judge people by what they look/dress like, ‘cause you never know who might be staying in the room next door!

 

Lisa


Our City Girl, Street Smart, Lisa has had quite a "country girl" education with the building of the AmericInn Hotels in Borger and Pampa. The one in Borger was the FIRST AMERICINN built in the entire state of TEXAS!  and it is owned by a MARINE! OORAH!

Momma Marine
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