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Denise


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I want to share an email I received today with you.  All of us I think know someone who was in WWII and this new tribute to them is beautiful!




This takes a few minutes to load if you are using a dial-up connection, but it is well worth viewing and listening to if you have the slightest interest in WWII)
 
 
 

this is wonderful
 

About WWII Vets - Take a few minutes of your time! Read and open the site in 3rd paragraph and turn on sound...
 
The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood. Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla., eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event. He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly.
 
At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you." Then the old soldier began to cry. "That really got to me," Bierstock says. Cut to today. Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die. "If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "Every ethnic minority would be dead. And the soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them." The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web ( http://www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html), the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren. "It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them."
 
Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web.
 
They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.
 

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Awesome, I will pass it on, thanks.
Old guy like that [we call him Sarge] sits in the restaurant every night. He is a musician, I will tell him tonight.

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i had to watch that twice because i was bawling so hard the first time , so it all got blurry. i have several vets in my family. my uncle was a vietnam vet and now he has lung cancer. theres an old vet that sits in his wheelchair in the back of the walmart parking lot. everyone helps him with money donations. i feel so bad for him, he even sits out there on freezing cold days.

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Thanks for sharing...I'll be passing it on.

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