Hi:

While watching a program on TV the other day, I heard about this site. It's called the Wounded Warriors Project. This is their mission:

The Wounded Warrior Project was founded on the principle that veterans are our nation's greatest citizens. The Project seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hot spots around the world. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military service. These wounded soldiers will return to civilian life minus one or more limbs, or with serious wounds or disfiguring scars, and will face greater challenges today obtaining assistance and finding opportunities that would enable them to provide for themselves and their families.

The Wounded Warrior Project was founded to give a voice to this new generation of veterans facing unique issues and problems. The Project fills the vital need for a coordinated, united effort to enable wounded veterans to aid and assist each other and to readjust to civilian life.

Please give them a moment of your time. Thanks!

Guess what? My husband was going through the boxes that we brought home when we closed on my house this month and lo and behold while rummaging through an old button tin, he found a real treasure. I heard, "Honey, you aren't going to believe what I found!" And there in this tin that almost got tossed, were my dad's tags. Oh I was dancing. Tell me that the gods haven't been shining down on my lately. I think I have several guardian angels.

What were the odds????

Still dancing in Alger

jhor9

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Status: offline I had a friend who was a pilot in a different group, tell me this story--- In formation at altitude over 20,000 ft enroute to a target his plane was was in the inside of of a tight turn. The plane flipped over on it's back and then split essed, at the completion of the manouver, on its way back up. he was unable to push the wheel forward to try to level the plane, the plane then stalled and went into a spin. He tried everything and he was lucky that he was able to right the plane at 3000 ft. He then returned to his base,when they examined the plane every rivet was popped, needless to say that plane never flew again. I dont recall if anyone left the plane on it's way down

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Jules Horowitz, pilot, 99th BG

Convoy escort earns a Purple Heart

Released: Nov. 15, 2004

By 2nd Lt. Heather Alden

100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

Staff Sgt. Amelia Solomon, 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron, stands in front of the truck she was commanding when the truck in front of hers was hit by an improvised explosive device in Iraq May 1. She earned the Purple Heart for the injuries she received during a convoy mission with the Army. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Robinson)

Amelia Solomon

ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENAHALL, England (USAFENS) -- Staff Sgt. Amelia Solomon didn’t spend her summer backpacking through Europe or sunbathing on the beaches of Cornwall with her 3-year-old daughter.

Instead, she spent her summer in the dry, blistering heat of Iraq , wondering how many improvised explosive devices might be hidden on the trail in front of her convoy and praying just to make it through each day alive. She triumphed through the challenging six-month tour with the Army as a convoy escort, and she has the Purple Heart to prove it.

A five-year Air Force veteran, the 24-year-old enthusiastically volunteered to go to Iraq as an Air Force vehicle operator. The 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron sent five people to Iraq just a couple of months before she found out she was going.

Now this is really something!

On this Veterans Day a veteran of Britain's Royal Navy is trying to find the rightful owner of an incredible collection of photographs taken by an American World War II veteran.

It was more than a year ago that Monty Singh spotted an ornate photo album at a garage sale in Renton.

“I just thought it would look good on a coffee table,†he said.

He bought it for just $3.50. But while the album is clearly Japanese, the pictures inside document an American airman's tour of duty through Europe.

“I went, ‘Oh, wow.’ I mean looking through it, and the pictures of who are in here, and the quality of the pictures,†Singh marveled. “This is somebody's life history.â€

Singh, who grew up in London, recognized a number of locations. Including the London Zoo. But there's not much more to go on.

“It’s a complete mystery,†he said.

So who does the album belong to? Singh believes the pictures were taken by the man posing in front of a sign for the 61st Maintenance Squadron.

“I just want to get it back to him,†Singh said of the album.

The book is devoid of writing. No captions, no names. But from the photos, it appears the soldier was later based around Frankfurt, Germany. There are pictures of bomb damage, and reconstruction, as well as friends in the newly formed U.S. Air Force which came into being as a separate service out of the U.S. Army in 1947.

There are also lots of pictures of the C-54 aircraft that would become famous during the Berlin airlift of 1948 and 1949.

Singh saw combat himself over Iraq as a British Harrier pilot during the 1991 Gulf war.

“I'm just hoping that somebody will recognize some of the pictures and say, that's my grandpa, that was my dad or whatever,†Singh said, “and is able to put a name to any of the faces in here. So can put some closure to it and return it to whoever it belonged to.â€

Could this be the man they are looking for??

More to come in a few moments...