Help
10-Aug-11 – 09:22 by ToddG
By now, everyone is well aware of the events that cost more than two dozen of our nation’s finest warriors their lives in Afghanistan last week. The thirty one men aboard that helicopter dedicated their lives to protecting us. All of us. And they paid the ultimate price for their selflessness and heroism.
While we sit back and reflect on their sacrifice, too often we forget that these men left behind children and wives who have lost more than just a warrior. They’ve lost Dad.
Now those families need us. Pick up your cellphone. Text “SEAL” to 90999. Ten dollars will be charged to your phone bill, and all ten dollars will go directly to the Navy SEAL Foundation to help the families who have lost their Dad. It’s that easy. No check to write, no website to visit. Just text “SEAL” to 90999. You’ll receive a text response in seconds asking you to reply with a “Yes” to confirm. The text messages are even free.
That’s it. You just helped support the families. Because of you, men who fight for our country know that if the worst happens, their families will be taken care of.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
edited to add: If you donate $10 via text and post a message about it on pistol-forum.com, we’ll match the first fifty donations (up to $500).
20 Responses to “Help”
I sent a donation through their web site, thanks for the nudge.
By James V on Aug 10, 2011
Sent my text.
By TCinVA on Aug 10, 2011
At first it seemed to go through but after sending “YES” it returned a message saying my donation failed.
By Dan on Aug 10, 2011
Done
By Zack H on Aug 10, 2011
Sent in my text. Received my confirmation. Thanks for posting this.
By Nelson on Aug 10, 2011
Done and received confirmation.
By Jon on Aug 10, 2011
Done and well done, TLG
By RVerdi on Aug 10, 2011
sent, got confirmation. thanks for the link
By cct125us on Aug 10, 2011
Thanks will do! But don’t forget the non-SEALs. This story just ruined me. Poor kid just felt that nobody even noticed his DAD died too cause he wasn’t a SEAL. All he wants if for folks to know his Dad’s name.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/09/afghanistan.pilot.son/index.html
By JHC on Aug 10, 2011
Done. And emailed to big group email and posted on a few FB pages.
By JHC on Aug 10, 2011
Another donation in
By Chris C on Aug 10, 2011
text sent. Donation made
By Leisure on Aug 10, 2011
Done.
By YK on Aug 11, 2011
Sent in my text and received confirmation. Thanks for the match.
By Junkball on Aug 11, 2011
JHC – Thanks for the link.
By James V on Aug 11, 2011
Done
By Jon on Aug 11, 2011
Let us never forget any of them………..not just the Seals that died. All of them deserve our respect.
By Sean M on Aug 11, 2011
Just a reminder… you need to post in the pistol-forum.com thread to count toward the matching donation. There’s no easy way for us to figure out whose screen name here matches with which user ID there.
By ToddG on Aug 12, 2011
Texted and confirmed
By Evo on Aug 13, 2011
Wow, this photo is amazing to watch!! It’s really sufferings the war between USA and Afghanistan…. Definitely come back for lots of this
By Great wilium on Oct 23, 2011