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Blogs > iceteaplease > Fruition of Prophecy


iceteaplease 55M
753 posts
12/22/2007 1:05 pm
Some good news on a slow bad news day
Read this from an AP report while doing the slash digg deli cious thing looking for breaking news for my Chew on this blogs. Changed my outlook on today and now I am just grateful to see someone stepping up.

Hope the nutcases from Westboro aren't around when these soldiers land.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Spc. Heather Davey put a $587 plane ticket on her credit card so she could go home for the holidays, figuring she would worry later about how to pay for it.

The 34-year-old mother of two has one less worry now. She and 40 other members of the Nebraska Army National Guard's 110th Medical Battalion training at Fort Lewis, Wash., found out Thursday that Nebraska business leaders would pay the soldiers' fares home.

"It made me feel appreciated," Davey said Friday from Fort Lewis. "I was so touched by the thoughtfulness and giving that still exists in this world today."

Banker Roy Dinsdale of Palmer and 20 of his friends and associates put up the $24,000 needed to get the soldiers home. An additional $16,000 that was raised will be kept in reserve.

The Lincoln-based unit has been training at Fort Lewis since Dec. 4, and Sgt. 1st Class Ron Schroeder said all but two of the soldiers in the unit were returning to Nebraska this weekend.

For some, he said, the cost of the plane tickets would have been a burden. But when word came that members of the battalion would be reimbursed, a small celebration erupted.

"We can't tell you how much we appreciate the generosity of the business people back home," said Schroeder, 44, of Crete.

All the money was raised in two days.

"I couldn't live in this country and be as fortunate as I have been without the military being pretty close to my heart," said Dinsdale, who also owns feedlots and other agricultural businesses in three states.

Born Again Christians only need to chew, It's those left behind that have to swallow it.


GreenGal777
(Lisa H) 64F
1182 posts
12/23/2007 5:57 pm

 Hey , thanks a bunch!!! That's what I like to hear especially around this time of year. Some GOOD NEWS.

There is always good in the world ... Peace, Lisa




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