BCRW Troops Support: Pearl Harbor: Bartcher's Photo Tribute

Oregon Chapter of Operation Homefront

Supporting Oregon Troops and their Families

Diapers and Pull Ups Needed *** Pre-paid Utility Cards Needed *** Bronze Star & Purple Heart Family Needs Your Help *** Military Families in Need of Grocery & Gas Cards *** Non-Perishable Food Items

Please sign up today to volunteer or partner with Operation Homefront of Oregon (OHO). Operation Homefront provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops, to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home.

Operation Homefront partners with local businessmen and women offering pro-bono or discounted services to help militiary families in crisis. When a need arises OHO uses donated dollars to help offset the costs to military families so that their loved one serving does not have to worry about the homefront, but can concentrate on the very important task at hand.

Thank you,
Christine Strawn, President

Oregon Chapter of Operation Homefront
Office: (541) 981-2186
Fax: (541) 981-2368
1895 14th Ave SE in Heritage Mall (MAP)
Albany, Oregon

Items Requested by our Troops

Marily Myers, Care Package Director of the Oregon Chapter of Operation Homefront, could use the following items:
Snack packets for cold lunch or pocket
- Granola bars
- Jerky or pepperoni
- Nuts (variety or mixed)
- Trail mix
- Tuna/crackers set from the Dollar Tree
- Hard candy or non-melting candy
- Lunch size packages of crackers or cookies Travel games
Liquid shower gel
Shave cream
Your contributions may be dropped off at Republican Headquarters, 1760 SW 3rd in Corvallis, or at the Operation Homefront Office in Heritage Mall in Albany. --Thank you.

Appreciation to Warrior's Refuge

Our dear friend, April Aguirre, contributed some of her fantastic military tribute artwork for buttons, which were passed out along the parade route of Albany's Veterans Day Parade on November 11th, 2009. Thank you so much April! The Benton County Republican Women passed out thousands of buttons along the parade route. April's designs were among the Club's collection of patriotic buttons signifying the Club's appreciation for our military and veterans.

April's business is Warrior's Refuge (website, facebook), a military greeting card company. April's goal is to create cards, posters, and banners that promote esprit de corps & hope for the heroes abroad, at home, and for their families.

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BCRW Member, Linda Bartcher and her husband Bob, sent photos from their tour of Pearl Harbor and the new USS Oklahoma Memorial. Bob and Linda do so much to support the troops and their efforts are truly appreciated.

Gulf War Examinations

Some of our soldiers in Iraq have been exposed to radiation and have had subsequent serious medical issues, a virulent form of leukemia and other severe cancers. For some, these illnesses were symptom-free or of seemingly little consequence for some time before a deadly diagnosis was made. For this reason, returning soldiers must request a Gulf War Examination immediately. Though it it a two-day test, it is free and lives may depend on it. Please spread the word to your family and friends. Contact Christine Strawn immediately with any info you may have. She says, "The only way we can help our soldiers is if we band together. They have fought for us and now we must fight for them." Read Oregon Guard: Troops possibly exposed to toxic chemical in Iraq, published February 11, 2009 by the Corvallis Gazette-Times.

Please visit www.iraqradiation.com, a site dedicated to the soldiers and their families who have battled these exposure related diseases and want others to understand the severity so that no soldier goes without early testing.

Remembering Andrew Rounds (22) of Lebanon, Oregon. Rest in peace young warrior.

Quotes

Thank you City of Albany,
"When we returned from Iraq in 2004 the City of Albany closed the streets and gave us a parade; they lined the streets, and did everything but put olive branches in our hair as they treated us like Caesar's of old."-- SFC Scott Nyquist
"A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of up to and including his life." -- Author Unknown
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." -- John F. Kennedy
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill
"It was soldiers who walked in and liberated Auschwitz, not a bunch of peace activists." -- Unknown

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