This May is the 12th Annual National Military Appreciation Month.  Here is the official website to commemorate the occasion.  

http://www.nmam.org/

You'll find lots of good information on Military and Veterans organizations and supporters, as well as information on the month's events celebrating in honor of our military men and women and their long history of service to the U.S.A.

 I will be adding to this post as I find more information.

But to start ... 

One way to support our military and its veterans is to go to Pepsi Refresh Project and vote for the military/veterans projects that are currently up for a vote ... a vote from you ... the public.  Just go to the search window on the PepsiRefresh home page and type in military, warrior, WWII, veteran, Iraq or Afghanistan and you will be led to projects whose goal is to help our military/veterans with a wide variety of needs.  You can vote for up to 10 projects a day.  

Wouldn't this be a wonderful way to say thank you to our Military by dedicating ourselves to casting 10 votes a day to help these groups win a grant of 250k, 50k, 25k or 5k.

Link to Pepsi Refresh:

http://www.refresheverything.com/index

 Please take the time to vote .... 

Tags: air forces, army, marines, national military appreciation month, navy, old glory parade, pepsi refresh, u.s. flag, veterans

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For those who lost their lives at Fort Hood ... may you rest in peace.  God Bless and keep you.

Just a simple flag I caught blowing in the wind with the old camera .  Many of the homes in my neighborhood display the Flag and as a mom of a Marine seeing this show of patriotism is very much like being held up  by loving arms against the force of my own emotions.  It comforts me ... it helps sustain me.  Thank you to all who proudly fly the Colors in front of a grateful home.  ~jeanne

Tags: american flag, flag in front of home, marine mom, marines, old glory, u.s. flag

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Milpitas Mall ... site of the old Ford Motor Plant 

Please join me in the celebration!  Do you have an original poem celebrating our Flag or an original poem about our troops?  Do you have original photos of Old Glory? I would love to include them here as a way to recognize our enduring freedom and a way to say "thank you" to those men and women who have served and are serving our courtry.  (Credit given to all contributors.) 

Comments are always welcome.  If interested in having your poem or photo included in the Old Glory Parade, I can be reached at:

actions360-oldgloryparade@yahoo.com

Tags: airforce, army, ford motor plant, images u.s. flag, jeanne rene poetry, marines, milpitas, navy, old glory, patriotic images, u.s. flag

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Graphic ~ jeanne

Originally the photo of flag flying above McDonalds ...

 A McDonalds in Campbel, CA ...

 Grandma's shelves ... Grandpa and Grandson

Tags: generations, images u.s. flag, marines, mcdonalds, momentos, navy, patriotic images, seabeas, u.s. flag

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Pictures provided by a proud family member ....

John Barberi ... U.S.Marines

 Nick Barberi ... U.S. Army

Tags: army, images u.s. flag, korean war, marines, patriotic images, u.s. flag, war veterans, world war two

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Photo sent by A. 

A Marine holds an American flag out the window a bus headed to Hickham Air Force Base, where Marines and Sailors from 1st Battalion, 12th Marine
Regiment departed for Iraq Sunday.(Oah'u) 10/3/08

Photo from the Hawaii Marine Newspaper.

Please join me in the celebration!  Do you have an original poem celebrating our Flag or an original poem about our troops?  Do you have original photos of Old Glory? I would love to include them here as a way to recognize our enduring freedom and a way to say "thank you" to those men and women who have served and are serving our courtry.  (Credit given to all contributors.) 

Comments are always welcome.  If interested in having your poem or photo included in the Old Glory Parade, I can be reached at:

actions360-oldgloryparade@yahoo.com

Tags: american flag, hickham air force base, marines, old glory, patriotic images, u.s. flag

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Have you been along the Parade route?

I will add your Stars and Strips to this parade. You may leave a link to your photo in "comments". Please remember to add the location and a simple description, as well as, your name so credit may be given for the photo. You may email me with a photo and information. Thank you and I hope you will join me along the parade route.

Proud mom and dad...summer 2008...

Our flags ...

Grandma's flag...

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Note #3/ Mother ... upon being/Marine Moms

perhaps if we hold on so tight
to each our smile
and laughter we laugh too loud
perhaps if we hug one more doubt
with arms that wrap round
old photographs and toads and baseball bats
we will stand unabashed
brazen
against the tide relinquished
form our own ebb and flow

perhaps if we kiss
each our cheek
we kiss the cheek of our sons marching


jeannerené 08.08

Dad sometime during WWII. Dad gave us all a Red Poppy every Veteran's Day. The one in the picture is the last one he gave me before he passed away.

My father-in-law ... sometime during WWII. Another Navy man! He and my dad had much to talk about.....

http://jeannerenepoetry.com/index.html

Tags: jeannerene poetry, marine moms, marines, navy, old glory, old glory parade, san jose ca, u.s. flag, ww 2

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