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).
I sent a donation through their web site, thanks for the nudge.
Sent my text.
At first it seemed to go through but after sending “YES” it returned a message saying my donation failed.
Done
Sent in my text. Received my confirmation. Thanks for posting this.
Done and received confirmation.
Done and well done, TLG
sent, got confirmation. thanks for the link
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
Done. And emailed to big group email and posted on a few FB pages.
Another donation in
text sent. Donation made
Done.
Sent in my text and received confirmation. Thanks for the match.
JHC – Thanks for the link.
Done
Let us never forget any of them………..not just the Seals that died. All of them deserve our respect.
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.
Texted and confirmed
Wow, this photo is amazing to watch!! It’s really sufferings the war between USA and Afghanistan…. Definitely come back for lots of this 🙂