My son, David and I visited this place inside Burma a few months ago, March 8, 2009. The kids were laughing at this village near the Thai-Burma border called Ler Per Her -- a relatively “safe” place...
created by gtron003 | 21 wks ago 130 views | 57 recommendations | 2 comments
When I first read a few hours ago the news of John McCain's pick of Sara Palin as his choice for VP, I was a bit stunned. Then, I was disappointed, because it struck me that John McCain had just "settled"...
opinion by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 432 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
This is an excerpt of an email that I received yesterday from a young SGT who is currently serving a tour of duty in Sadr-City in Iraq -- an area with some of the heaviest and ugliest fighting. He is 8 months into his tour with an infantry division and who also served in...
created by gtron003 | 1 year ago 122 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Sitting here in the Tokyo airport, returning from 18 days at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I'm struck by what we just witnessed and were part of. It was truly both historic and also amazing. Not just that China...
opinion by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 391 views | 19 recommendations | 6 comments
OK, here is an unbelievable, "once in a lifetime" opportunity to help those suffering immensely in Burma -- both as a result of the dictators complete lack of response to the devastation of the May 9th...
created by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 202 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
For all our sake, I hope this isn't true. When people are WILLING to die for what they believe, you want to think that people will listen to what they had to say while they were still alive. How many of us would make that sacrifice if it came to it ... fewer than we'd like to...
created by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 436 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Last week, on a flight from Dallas to Louisville, I sat next to a young Specialist 4, infantry soldier from the 10th Mountain Division, named Greg Pittenger, who has served in Afghanistan and was on his mid tour break (for 18 days), while serving in Iraq. To say...
created by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 296 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A friend who knows that we've been financially supporting emergency relief
efforts by the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) www.freeburmarangers.org to the 1
million internally displaced people (IDP's) in the...
created by gtron003 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 423 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Take a look at what’s going on in Burma today. Check out this first hand report that summarizes the last year of attacks by the Burma military regime against the various ethnic people of Burma....
created by gtron003 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 6254 views | 30 recommendations | 12 comments