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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Completely forgot to post this last night but here it is.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

 

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. 

This Weeks Post Was Suggested And Written By Brat

Sgt. Patrick Tainsh
33 years old from Oceanside, California
Troop E, 2nd Squadron, 2ndArmored Cavalry Regiment
February 11, 2004 




Five years ago today, Sgt. Patrick Tainsh sacrificed all as the mounted unit he
was part of was hit by an IED in Baghdad. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze and Sliver Stars saving the lives of his commanding officer and other soldiers before succumbing to his own wounds. Also killed in the attack was Pfc. William C. Ramirez from Portland, Oregon. 

On Veteran’s Day, 2007, Deborah Tainsh, Sgt. Tainsh’s mother, attended a school in Columbia, Georgia, and shared a story she had written called “A Boy Named Patrick.” 

Here is part of the story : 

…a little boy named Patrick who loved football, beaches, surfing, and
skateboarding, and especially reading. Patrick watched his dad be a Marine for
over twenty years. During this time Patrick kept reading not only surfing and
skateboarding magazines, but history books, too. One day when Patrick was a man, he told his dad and best friend, “I want to do something that will make a
difference in the world, I’m going to be a soldier.” And so he did. And in 1999
he went to Fort Knox, Kentucky for boot camp and then went to Fort Polk,
Louisiana where he worked and trained hard to become a United States Army
Cavalry Scout. Then in 2003 Patrick had to say good bye to his mom and dad
because he had to go fight a war in Iraq to protect his country, friends, and
family from terrorists and to help fight for the freedoms of the boys and girls
in that country where they and their families were treated very badly by their
country’s leader. Patrick once wrote a letter to his mom and dad telling them
that he cried for the children because they were hungry and he didn’t have food
to give them. He said he couldn’t understand how a country’s leader could treat
the people so badly and make them live in such dirty conditions with trash and
wild dogs everywhere. And so Patrick’s mom and dad keep a photo in their living
room of Patrick surrounded by Iraqi children. 

You can read the story in it’s entirety here. 

Sgt Tainsh came to the military later than some, but rose through the ranks fast. In his last letter to his parents, Sgt Tainsh shared his thoughts about his mission. And in 2006, Sgt. Tainsh’s mother wrote a book called Heart Of A Hawk about her son’s life and her and her husband’s struggles since their son was killed.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. 

I’ve been looking for a while for some way to selectively export posts from Shadowscope so that I could import them into my personal blog and finally found a plugin that would let me do so. Some of my older posts should start showing up soon and disappearing from Shadowscope. I just finished with about 300 posts and it was actually pretty painless. Since my images and stuff are in completely separate directories they may not show up properly. 

I spent a few minutes cleaning up the blogs a little more today. I’ve moved my blogrolls over here from Shadowscope. Most of them are personal links and don’t have anything whatsoever to do with crime blogging anyway. It allowed me to clean up my main page over there a little and makes it a little easier to identify this site, as if my shitty prose weren’t enough to do that.
Managed to get a day off this week, which is always welcome. I went ahead and got out of bed this morning to help the wife get ready and see the curtain climbers off to school, then puttered around the house a bit so it wouldn’t look so nasty. My oven was delivered late last week and the handy-man dude is coming over later to help me haul it upstairs and hook it up for me. I could probably manage hooking it up myself but he’s got to make a living too. When I ordered the new oven I saved somewhere around $100 by just having them drop it in my driveway, figuring I would rather pay him to come do it. He’s got to make a living too.
Speaking of the handy-man, I’m going to get a quote from him on extending the back porch as well. Not in the next month but at least prior to our get-together at the end of May. I want to run it to the end of the house, probably adding on at least another ten feet. More if I have him run it to the other end as well. It really just depends on how much he’s going to charge me. It would be nice to have the space on the deck for parties. It’s still a bit early to start planning the party but it is coming, so have your asses here. We always have a blast and there is plenty of food and alcohol as well as stuff for kids to do too if you so happen to have rugrats tagging along. Normally there are enough sober people to keep an eye on them as well 🙂

…nope, not the Priest version nor is it the original singer, Joan Baez. This is Blackmore’s Night with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night. While I love the Priest version for some reason this is much more haunting.

It’s amazing how things change. I don’t remember what got me onto this topic last night with the wife, but I showed her this old video of Judas Priest. Actually I showed her Rocka Rolla but I like Dreamer Deceiver much better, which is why I’ve posted it here.