greg334
Veteran Expediter
Thanks to all the vets and armed forces service people out there for their sacrifice keeping our country safe. I believe that thanks should not be one day but 365 days a year.
My wife has been rather upset with me not telling anyone about my attempt to thank them everyday so I gave up fighting her and decided to say something; here is what I am doing.
Back in march when I took time off for my ear infection, I ended up helping out a friend and his daughter move into her new apartment.
It was a touching situation see his daughter just got out of rehab the day before the move because she lost her leg in Iraq. It was an accident with a truck during a combat situation something she blames no one for except herself – she don’t blame the Iraqis nor Bush for it. She was not there for the education benefits, the career or anything like that but she wanted to make a difference. Her goal, not being stopped by ‘this little problem’ is still to own a farm and raise endangered livestock. She kept saying that we are doing good for all over there in Iraq but no one wants to hear these good things that are actually happening.
So this inspired me to at least attempt to do something to show I care and show them my appreciation for their work and sacrifice – I created a website where nothing but the good stories/photo/videos can be posted - Dateline Iraq. It is strictly for the positive stories about Iraq, Afghanistan and all the people who are doing good things over there, including contractors, no political spin or political talk. This is my way of saying thanks for the job they are doing – I wish I could do more for all of them.
There may be a bunch of sites out there that have these stories on them, but I only found one and that has not had a story posted for over a year. I feel it may be helpful to have a site like this, if it fails all I can say is at least I tried.
I haven’t asked if I can post the URL on EO – so I won’t, but I can post my truck site http://www.gregstruck.com which has the URL in the sidebar on the left for Dateline Iraq. Dateline Iraq and my truck website are still in development form and may look odd and subject to change and you will notice right now the Bulgarian words on the site. The truck site is almost finished (format and content) but the changes are not online yet and Dateline Iraq is next. When I get back I will hopefully start to send out emails and letters to see who would be interested in posting stories.
Oh one other thing, there are no ads on the Dateline Iraq site – period. This is about the people and their positive stories, not about making money or me – my truck site is about me and my truck. Even though I am scraping together (literally) the $50 every month to pay for the hosting for all three sites, I feel this is too important to have it filled with ads. I do ask for donations on my truck site and have ads there, but that is about it. Of course I can get hosting cheaper but there are reasons why I am not going to which I won’t post. My hope is this does help everyone and takes off, so I will need to move it to another host that can handle the traffic for $115 a month. Is it a lot of money? Sure but it’s worth it.
My wife has been rather upset with me not telling anyone about my attempt to thank them everyday so I gave up fighting her and decided to say something; here is what I am doing.
Back in march when I took time off for my ear infection, I ended up helping out a friend and his daughter move into her new apartment.
It was a touching situation see his daughter just got out of rehab the day before the move because she lost her leg in Iraq. It was an accident with a truck during a combat situation something she blames no one for except herself – she don’t blame the Iraqis nor Bush for it. She was not there for the education benefits, the career or anything like that but she wanted to make a difference. Her goal, not being stopped by ‘this little problem’ is still to own a farm and raise endangered livestock. She kept saying that we are doing good for all over there in Iraq but no one wants to hear these good things that are actually happening.
So this inspired me to at least attempt to do something to show I care and show them my appreciation for their work and sacrifice – I created a website where nothing but the good stories/photo/videos can be posted - Dateline Iraq. It is strictly for the positive stories about Iraq, Afghanistan and all the people who are doing good things over there, including contractors, no political spin or political talk. This is my way of saying thanks for the job they are doing – I wish I could do more for all of them.
There may be a bunch of sites out there that have these stories on them, but I only found one and that has not had a story posted for over a year. I feel it may be helpful to have a site like this, if it fails all I can say is at least I tried.
I haven’t asked if I can post the URL on EO – so I won’t, but I can post my truck site http://www.gregstruck.com which has the URL in the sidebar on the left for Dateline Iraq. Dateline Iraq and my truck website are still in development form and may look odd and subject to change and you will notice right now the Bulgarian words on the site. The truck site is almost finished (format and content) but the changes are not online yet and Dateline Iraq is next. When I get back I will hopefully start to send out emails and letters to see who would be interested in posting stories.
Oh one other thing, there are no ads on the Dateline Iraq site – period. This is about the people and their positive stories, not about making money or me – my truck site is about me and my truck. Even though I am scraping together (literally) the $50 every month to pay for the hosting for all three sites, I feel this is too important to have it filled with ads. I do ask for donations on my truck site and have ads there, but that is about it. Of course I can get hosting cheaper but there are reasons why I am not going to which I won’t post. My hope is this does help everyone and takes off, so I will need to move it to another host that can handle the traffic for $115 a month. Is it a lot of money? Sure but it’s worth it.
