In My Own Words

First I got an e-mail from one of my Marines in Afghanistan, with a picture attached. The picture is of him raising the Tennessee State flag at the FOB where he’s stationed. He has friends in Greeneville (which is where Nolichuckey Bluffs is; our favorite vacation spot) that he’s sending the flag to. In the [...]

We’ve been supporting our troops long enough now that we’re finding ourselves with quite a number of “repeaters.” I was going through the contact updates on AnySoldier, not that we need another to support at the moment, when I found a name I recognized as a Soldier we adopted in 2007 when he was deployed [...]

A friend at AnySoldier.com posted a prayer request on the forums, for a Marine who is a friend of her family. I’ve copied and pasted her request below, since she asked that we pass it along to get as many people praying for this young man as possible. A friend of the family, a young [...]