Carson City!

I wanted to welcome all the new Carson City, NV viewers!  Carson Cities own KOLO Channel 8, featured the project www.webofsupport.com and PJ Degross tonight on their local broadcast after the Presidents speech.  PJ and I met online through this blog well over a year ago, and I will be meeting her on my first stop in Carson City on July 17.   

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Comments

[Kelli]

Chris,
I tried to email you, but for some reason I was unable to do so. Instead, I will give you my letter here.

I discovered your blog today and I was so moved by everything that you and your fellow soldiers went through and are still going through. I am glad to hear that you have been able to return home safely and begin such a heartfelt and honest project.

I have always been a supporter of our troops (I come from a military family goin back generations--my father was in the Navy, Honor Guard and National Guard) but it was within the last month that I discovered that there are many of our soldiers who have blogs. I am always looking for more soldier blogs to add to my own and so that I can offer my support and thanks to them through comments of encouragement. I was astonished to see the large collection that you have on your blog (I will be linking to it today)!

There are a few soldier blogs that I think would be great additions to your list. They are men and women who are all still overseas and dealing with the daily struggle to help the innocent while staying safe and focused. I will list them below.

Bradley Gunner http://spaces.msn.com/members/bradleygunner6-8cav/

NYCCLAYE http://spaces.msn.com/members/nycclaye/

Martin in Afghanistan http://spaces.msn.com/members/martininafghanistan/

Striving for Freedom http://spaces.msn.com/members/Freedom4allofus/

These are just a few that I have unearthed. I wish you the best on your Patriot Tour :) and I will be sure to add your blog to my daily readings and commentings on soldiers' blogs. Take care and God bless.

Kelli

[Jerry]

I was just wondering what happened to Clay's blog since it was featured on MSN homepage on the morning of July 15.After a few hours it was gone. I don't know if he pulled the plug or someone else did,but its gone as of now.

[Emory]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOLLOWS:

Remember "Gulf War syndrome" from the first Persian Gulf War? I found out what it is: depleted uranium poisoning. See, the Department of Defense still claims it's harmless and uses it now more than ever, in Abrams tank armor, in tank gun rounds (b/c it's so dense a metal), in 30mm ammunition fired by the A-10 'Warthogs' and a myriad of other uses I'm not privy to. Does the 25mm Bushmaster chain gun that's in the Bradley and in the Marines' LAV-25 use depleted uranium ammo? I don't know; if I had to guess I'd say it probably does. The worst is the depleted uranium dust blowing in the wind all over Iraq. A single particle of it lodged in your respiratory system is cancer-causing. So far, over 200,000 vets of Gulf War One have filed for disability because of being crippled by it and are in various stages of miserable death. It also afflicts their spouses and even causes their babies to be born with grotesque birth defects! So far more than four times as much depleted uranium has been used in this war than in Gulf War One, so imagine how much worse "Gulf War syndrome" will be this time!!
So how about that? The Department of Defense "supports the troops" by first poisoning you all, then denying it knows the cause of the "mystery illness". This callous disregard for the lives of its troops is breathtakingly despicable. Every soldier, marine , sailor and airman should be outraged. Please pass this information on to everyone you can. Everyone needs to be made aware of this.

[Patrick Hedemark]

It is time the men and women serving in the US Military "just say NO" to deployment in any zone where the consciousness of the civilian leadership is antogonistic to the defense of the Constitution and the means of war is antagonistic to one's longterm health. If you all just go on strike - "en masse" then the conflict cannot be waged. It is really that simple. 160,000 troops are now deployed in Iraq. Everyone of them should simply go on strike with the clearest explanation for your refusal being the inevitable yet unnecessary suffering this deployment will produce for the Iraqi citizen soldiers, their civilian support and the American soldiers likewise "trapped" in this hellish environment.

Just Say NO!