We have had great support for our
Annual AdoptaPlatoon BBQ in past
years and we are know that it will
continue this year. This will be a
special year.
The Founder and Executive director
of the AdoptaPlatoon Soldier
Support Effort, Ida Hagg, is traveling
from Texas to join us. She is a great lady and this will give all of our supporters and all the AdoptaPlatoon Moms in the St louis area a chance to meet her. Her energy never ceases to amaze.
More great news. This year we are going to be joined by the Pacific, Missouri American Legion Post 320. They will be sending "care packages" to D Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, known as the Dagger Brigade. This unit is part of the famous Big Red One, the 1st Infantry Division, the oldest continuously serving division in the United States Army. We are going to donate all of the items that we collect to Legion Post 320 so that the can continue to support D Company.
The summers in the Middle East are hot, dusty and bug-ridden, so We are asking our supporters to donate items that will make the soldiers life more comfortable. Our troops will appreciate receiving a pair of U/V blocker sunglasses, insect repellent with DEET, sunblock, medicated foot powder, Odor Eaters for boots, socks (cotton, military or white), antifungal cream, lip balm, powdered drink mix singles (Propel, Crystal Light, KoolAid, Gatorade), travel-size toiletries, snack packs, stationery, beef jerky/beef sticks, protein bars and granola bars.
They may have to carry food in their packs for days, so please include lots of 'grab and go' healthy snacks. Our troops also would appreciate donations of CDs/DVDs, portable DVD players, AA and AAA batteries, Gameboys, board games, soccer balls and - most of all they appreciate letters of support from you, from your children, or from your business or school.
We are looking forward to seeing you folks Saturday the 20th.
Be sure to bring the kids.
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Susan B. Komen For The Cure
Susan G. Komen fought breast cancer with her
heart, body and soul. Throughout her diagnosis,
treatments, and endless days in the hospital, she
spent her time thinking of ways to make life
better for other women battling breast cancer
instead of worrying about her own situation.
That concern for others continued even as Susan neared the end of her fight. Moved by Susan's compassion for others and committed to making a difference, Nancy G. Brinker promised her sister that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever.
A good friend of Roadhouse, Ed Belling, and his band mates, Pik'n Lik'n, sponsor events throughout the area for this great cause in honor of Ed's wife (now cancer free) Ann.
Thank yo Ed for letting us participate. Come out and get your Roadhouse fix and help us support a good cause. Here's where we will be.
Venice Cafe
Wednesday, June 10th
5:00pm to 8:00pm
1903 Pestalozzi St
St Louis, Missouri
Roadhouse will be playing around 6:00pm
Bobby's Place
Thursday, June 11th
5:00pm to 9:00pm
108 Meramec Valley Plaza
Valley Park, Mo
Roadhouse will be playing around 6:00pm
The Shanti
Saturday, June, 13th
2:00pm to 1:00am
825 Allen Ave
St Louis, Missouri
Roadhouse will be playing around 6:00pm
We have been participating in this event for a couple of years now and it is always good fun and it is a good way to help Susan G. Komen for the Cure and you will be entertained.
See you there
D-Day 60th Anniverary
The D-Day Landings constituted
the allied invasion of Nazi occupied
France as part of the overall plan to
liberate Europe. The code name for
the Normandy Invasion, which
involved the most massive amphibious and airborne landings in the history of the world, was code named Overlord. Altogether 3 million allied military personnel were involved.
Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.
A friend of ours was there and his
heroism deserves to be celebrated.
Charles Chibitty was the last surviving
Comanche code talker who used his
native tongue to confound Hitler's
forces during World War II. Mr.
Chibitty, whose name means
"holding on good" in Comanche,
also was the last surviving hereditary
chief of the tribe, the Comanche
Nation reported. He was descended
on his mother's side from Chief Ten
Bears, known as one of the signers of
the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867.
He was one of 17 Comanches from the Lawton, Okla., area who were selected in 1941 for special Army duty to provide the Allies with a language the Germans could not decipher. He served with the Army's 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. The Comanche recruits created their code at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1941. "We compiled a 100-word vocabulary of military terms during training," Mr. Chibitty said in a 1999 interview with the Armed Forces Information Service. "The Navajo did the same thing. The Navajos became code talkers about a year after the Comanches, but there were over a hundred of them, because they had so much territory [in the Pacific Theater] to cover."
Mr. Chibitty landed at Utah Beach, one of 14 Comanches who hit the beaches of Normandy with Allied troops on D-Day. In presentations over the years, he recalled the first coded message he transmitted that day: "Five miles to the right of the designated area and five miles inland the fighting is fierce and we need help."
Because there was no Comanche word for "tank," the code talkers used their word for "turtle." "Bomber" became "pregnant airplane." "Hitler," Mr. Chibitty recalled, was "posah-tai-vo," or "crazy white man."
Two Comanches were assigned to each of the 4th Infantry Division's three regiments. They sent coded messages from the front line to division headquarters, where other Comanches decoded the messages. Some of the Comanches were wounded, but all survived the war. Their code was never broken.
"It's strange, but growing up as a child I was forbidden to speak my native language at school," Mr. Chibitty said in 2002. "Later my country asked me to. My language helped win the war, and that makes me very proud. Very proud."
Thank you Charlie
