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	<title>In My Own Words</title>
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	<description>&#34;I cannot do everything. I accept that. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for doing nothing.&#34; ~ Helen Keller</description>
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		<title>I Sure Do Have Some Amazing Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a crazy past couple of weeks, but I&#8217;m getting back on an even keel and into the swing of things once again. For six months I followed Sis&#8217;s postings on facebook of the ups and downs Nafe went through before he finally lost the fight, and I shared those postings with my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/08/26/i-sure-do-have-some-amazing-friends/</link>
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		<title>A Video that is Hard to Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6788433n The link above will take you to a news video taken the day our local hometown hero, Cpl. Kristopher &#8220;Daniel&#8221; Greer, USMC, was injured in Afghanistan by an IED blast. He died of his injuries two days later; the other critically injured Marine who was with him lost both legs. It&#8217;s a hard video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/08/21/a-video-that-is-hard-to-watch/</link>
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		<title>August is half gone already??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just realized that August is halfway behind us, and I have been extremely remiss with my blog postings. It has been quite a month, but that&#8217;s no excuse. Cheatham County has lost another of her heroes. Cpl Kristopher Daniel Greer, 25, Marine Reservist and Ashland City Firefighter, lost his life to an IED blast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/08/16/august-is-half-gone-already/</link>
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		<title>What a Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happens to us all. You know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;life&#8217;s sailing along relatively smoothly, you get complacent and take it for granted that all is right with your world, all things considered. Then out of the blue &#8211; WHAM! &#8211; your little corner of the world isn&#8217;t so smooth sailing at all. This has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/07/29/what-a-month/</link>
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		<title>Restrepo &#8211; the Movie (and other subjects)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Junger wrote a book titled &#8220;War,&#8221; which is basically a journal of time he spent in Afghanistan&#8217;s Korengal Valley with a platoon of American Soldiers. He and Tim Hetherington made a documentary film titled &#8220;Restrepo,&#8221; which is the name of the combat outpost the Soldiers that Mr. Junger was embedded with built and named [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/07/17/restrepo-the-movie-and-other-subjects/</link>
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		<title>Just Another Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are, a week into July and I haven&#8217;t written anything lately. It&#8217;s not that there isn&#8217;t anything to write about, more like I&#8217;ve been busy with this and that. Jack and I had company for the weekend; my sister Peggy and her husband Todd came down Friday, July 2 and stayed through Monday, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/07/07/just-another-update/</link>
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		<title>A Warrior&#8217;s Sense of Humor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a rare while, I get to chat with one of our troops via Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or GoogleTalk. One of our guys who is in Afghanistan was on for a bit this morning, and since I am getting ready to pack some boxes this week I asked him if there is anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/06/27/a-warriors-sense-of-humor/</link>
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		<title>Another Round of Packages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday afternoon, after Savanna&#8217;s 5th birthday party, Jack and I went to Sam&#8217;s Club to pick up a few things. As we always do when I&#8217;ve got money to spend on our Warriors, he got a cart for household stuff, and I got one for Soldier stuff, then it was off to the races&#8230; LOL! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/06/23/another-round-of-packages/</link>
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		<title>The Bake Sale Went Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;busy week&#8221; turned out quite well once all was said and done. I was up late Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights baking bread and cookies for Raise Dough for the Troops, so I was a little tired by the end of each day of the sale. The first day I made $47, the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/06/14/the-bake-sale-went-well/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a busy week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my troop support account was down to 44-cents (enough to buy exactly one stamp, but who wants to write a check or swipe a debit card for $0.44?), the yard sale at the National Guard Armory in Ashland City could not have come at a better time. Lori invited me to set up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://helpmstracysupportthetroops.com/blog/2010/06/11/its-been-a-busy-week/</link>
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