Farmersfightersfreighterssalute

Hi and welcome to my page that I put together for our farmers, fighters and freighters. I hope you like it. - Alan-

Listen for the salute to the farmers, fighters and freighters every Friday morning at 6:39 with Alan Reed and Mary McPhee!

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Check out this video from a band called, "Five For Fighting". The song is called, "Freedom Never Cries". Take a look at the picture behind the owner of the pawnshop.

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This is one of my favorite quotes about what a veteran is. What Is A Veteran?

A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of ' up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact.

...I can never thank enough, the people who put on a bulletproof vest to go to work for a living. I feel fortunate to live in this great country of ours and enjoy the freedoms that a lot of people take for granted. So, to the brave men and women of the Sheriff and police departments in our area, who help keep crime and drugs off the streets,...THANK YOU. To the veterans, past, present and future, THANK YOU. Your duty to job and country doesn't go un-noticed by me. Freedom is not free. -Alan

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Blue Star Mothers Support Group- Next meeting is October 9th, in Plainview.

The Blue Star Mothers are mothers, from the Plainview area, who now have, or have had, children serving in the military. They are a non-profit service organization supporting each other and their children while promoting patriotism. They would like to invite anyone in the area to attend one on their meetings on the 2nd Thursday of each month at House of Hope 525 W Broadway, Plainview MN, next to the Community Presbyterian Church. They discuss how best to support our soldiers and their families and continue to send care packages to our soldiers. They stress they are not a political group neither endorsing nor opposing the war or any candidate. All family members are welcome but only mothers can be members. Other family members can become associate members. For further information please contact Linda Hoiland 507-534-0160 email granny6@myclearwave.net

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DVDs4Vets is a Non-Profit Charity that arranges for the collection and donation of new and used DVDs for the benefit of military Veterans, many who are unable to obtain these on their own. All donated DVDs are sent to Vet hospitals, Vet centers, clinics and State Vet homes.
For more information: www.dvds4vets.org

DVDS4Vets is asking listeners to donate new or used DVDs for the benefit of military veterans who otherwise cannot easily obtain them on their own.
Started in 2006, DVDs4Vets has been arranging for the donation of DVDs for soldiers returning with Traumatic Brain Injuries or TBI as well as other serious battle wounds. With limited entertainment, vets in rehab can use what many of us take for granted every day.

DVDs4Vets does not solicit or receive financial assistance nor are they politically affiliated. Their primary goal is to show gratitude to those men and woman who have proudly served our Country with honor. For donations of 10 or more DVDs, all donors will be included on the DVDs4Vets Honor Roll.
To donate new or used DVDs or to learn more about this worthy cause, please go to www.dvds4vets.org (or www.dvdsforvets.org)
For more information, please contact Scott Bowers at (914) 835-3673 or dvds4vets@aol.com

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Watch these videos! This is one of the best video's I've seen on the internet. It really says it all about our troops, no matter what you stance on the war is, and it was done by 15 year old Lizzie Palmer. Click HERE to see it.

Here's another video that's making the rounds. It's called, "If I Die Before You Wake". Click HERE to hear the song and the video that goes with it.

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What is a Veteran?

Some Veterans bear visible signs of their service... A missing limb, a scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a Vet just by looking. What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose behavior is outweighed a hundred times by four hours of bravery near the 38th parallel.

She - or he - is the Nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the drill Instructor teaching marines to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket... palsied now and aggravatingly slow...who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being...a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank You". That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot,
"THANK YOU"