| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| thechriscrew |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 10:53:16
Any extra DAUGHTRY CD'S, please send to the TROOPS!! Thus DAUGHTRY fans will be sending the troops "Home" for the Holidays!! Let's ALL participate!!!
Watch The Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxJjXiXwlM
PURPOSE:
Many of us DAUGHTRY fans have bought/will buy many CD's as holiday gifts for family and friends. Any extra CD's that we have, we would like to donate them to the troops overseas to show our appreciation for their service. We are particularly dedicating the song "HOME" to the troops because the lyrics speak poignantly of the sadness and pain of not being able to be with loved ones, a plight relevant both to the servicemen & women and the families and friends who anxiously await their return.
WEB SITE TO SEND:
We have chosen the following web sites to choose an individual serviceman or woman to send to. Thus this will be very personal. Besides sending the DAUGHTRY CD, the web sites provides us with not only the serviceman or woman's name but specific items the individual requests in a care package. Feel free to include any of the requested care package items as well as the CD for that individual if you want to. CD ONLY or other items as well will be much appreciated. The following websites are fully explanatory on what to do.
http://anysoldier.com
http://anymarine.com
http://anyairman.com
http://anysailor.com
http://anycoastgardsman.com
WHAT DO YOU DO:
What you will do so that we don't overlap on various troop members names: Take the first initial of your last name and find an individual serviceman or woman whose last name has that initial and click onto that person. That site will then give you an address for that individual. When you get that info, please fill out the address as such:
PFC John Doe (put the person's name)
Attn: Any soldier (or marine or sailor or airman or coastguardsman)
Then place the address here
VERY IMPORTANT:
Just in case an individual serviceman or woman gets more than one package, it is very important that under that person's name you place (as above) "Attn: Any soldier (or marine, etc)", so that if this individual gets more than one package, it will be given to another person in that person's unit.
ATTACH THIS MESSAGE WITH EACH CD:
"To our American Hero (person's name),
On behalf of DAUGHTRY fans throughout United States, we would first of all like to THANK YOU for your service to our country in (place the country that the person is stationed at here).
While we could NEVER begin to show you our appreciation for your courage and strength being so far away from the country you serve and your family at home, as a gesture of our sincere thanks, we would like to send you a DAUGHTRY CD for you to enjoy while you continue to serve our country honorably. We would like to specifically dedicate the song "HOME" to you so that one day you will return home to your loved ones when your service has been completed.
"HOME" is the 3rd song on the album. Enjoy!
God Bless you and God Bless America,
(put your name or a generic "a DAUGHTRY fan")
HOW TO SEND:
The web sites listed are very explanatory. In addition, since we are sending individual CD's to a troop member, what you do is go to the post office or local store and get those padded envelopes that an individual CD can fit into. Place the name and address on this and mail the package. Larger care packages will need appropriate sized containers. The package will be mailed in the United States and from there will be sent overseas by way of the military. Thus postage is only needed for the United States.
WHEN TO DO THIS:
May send CD's from November 21st to December 4th. Anytime after December 4th, the CD will NOT get there in time for Christmas. Also, very important is that you can only get address for 3 servicemen or women per day. Thus if you have multiple CD's to send, plan your days ACCORDINGLY.
BACKGROUND ON "HOME":
In Chris Daughtry's own words: "I actually wrote 'Home' at home about a month before I left to do American Idol. I wrote it sitting on the couch, getting in the mindset of what it would be like to be away from home. The writing of the song happened in a matter of 10 minutes. (The song) hasn't changed since then."
Chris Daughtry is the sole writer of this song.
Watch Chris Daughtry perform an acoustic version of "HOME" for the first time at his homecoming in North Carolina at http://youtube.com/watch?v=5pwkX77x5wk
Watch Chris Daughtry talk about "HOME" in AOL Music's Behind the Scenes
http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1758010
CONTACT PERSON IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS:
Shelley. email address: shelby8510@yahoo.com
phone number: (480) 610-0358
Alternative contact: Dr. Henry (213) 742-5716 |
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| Svenidol |
Posted - 05/18/2007 : 08:58:54
The latest bulletin from Operation Home -
Our resident video guru Bosphotoman has created a NEW video for our "theme song"!!! Our goal is to get this "THANK YOU" to as many military families as possible, past and present, by Memorial Day. The Pentagon has made this task tougher by their new restrictions on troops in the field accessing Myspace or Youtube, but we will "Improvise, adapt, and overcome!" Please check out the video, and then pass along this bulletin to as many people as you can so we can get the video out there!!!
In the middle of the video you see a clip of Operation Home's "Iraqi Idol" , Sgt Jacobs, performing his acoustic version of "Home", and at the end Bos has incorporated some news footage from KARE11 of Minnesota National Guardsman John Kriesel working out with his new "bionic legs" as he calls them, and his "homecoming"
Here is a link to a posting on www.daughtryofficial.com of the video, and we are working on getting it uploaded to a file sharing site where it can be downloaded and shared as well.
http://upload1.musicbox.sonybmg.com/share?cmd=permalink&r=0XCzIG2UEwsEqQGbuw1XeDk9
To repost this bulletin with the video and links intact, just hit REPLY at the bottom of this bulletin, copy all the text and code, then post it in a new bulletin.
Thanks in advance to everyone for helping out, and THANK YOU to every man and woman in the United States Armed Service, as well as their families. And with Memorial Day just around the corner, take some time to remember those whose have given that "Last full measure of devotion"
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
- Abraham Lincoln , Gettysburgh Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSnTurusbs
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| Svenidol |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 08:34:38
quote:
Originally posted by isabellemybelle
Sorry about that posting this again! ;)
Sorry!?!? Don't be sorry! Can't post it enough in my book!  |
| isabellemybelle |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 22:37:48
Sorry about that posting this again! ;) |
| Svenidol |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 19:20:50
Operation Home's visit to the hospitals gets a mention in the news -
http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2007/01/18/local_news/news02.txt
Maureen Van Zandt, who plays Gabriella Dante in the HBO series “The Sopranos,” and her daughter visited Corey. He also was presented with the new Daughtry CD. The band, led by former “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry, recorded a song dedicated to soldiers.
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| Svenidol |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 22:32:55
One of the wounded that Operation Home visited at Bethesda yesterday was Dustin Kirby, a Navy Corpsman. He was a medic, and the subject of an article in the NY Times less than 2 months before he was wounded by a sniper's bullet - excerpts from that article -
Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby clutched the injured marine’s empty helmet. His hands were coated in blood. Sweat ran down his face, which he was trying to keep straight but kept twisting into a snarl.
Petty Officer Kirby, 22, is a Navy corpsman, the trauma medic assigned to Second Mobile Assault Platoon of Weapons Company, Second Battalion, Eighth Marines. Everyone calls him Doc. He had just finished treating a marine who had been shot by an Iraqi sniper...
...He put the bullet in his breast pocket, to give to an intelligence team later. Sweat kept rolling off his face, mixed with tears. His voice was almost cracking, but he managed to control it and keep it deep. “When I got there, there wasn’t much I could do,” he said.
Then he nodded. He seemed to be talking to himself. “I kept him breathing,” he said.
He looked at Lance Cpl. Matias Tafoya, his driver, and raised his voice. It was almost a shout. “When I told you that I do not let people die on me, I meant it,” he said. “I meant it.”
He turned, faced a reporter and spoke loudly again. “In situations and times like this, I am bound to start yelling and shouting furiously,” he said. “Don’t think I am losing my mind.”
He held his bloody hands before his face, to examine them. They were shaking. He made fists so tight his veins bulged. His forearms started to bounce.
“His name was Lance Cpl. Colin Smith,” he said. “He said a prayer today right before we came out, too.”...
“The best news I can throw at anybody right now, and that I am throwing to myself as often as I can, is that his eyes were O.K.,” he said. “They were both responsive. And he was breathing. And he had a pulse.”...
He looked at the reporter beside him. “Do you pray?” he asked. “Do that. I’d appreciate it.”
After a few minutes he started talking again. “You see, having a good platoon, one that you know real well, it’s both a gift and a curse. And Smith? Smith has been with me since I was...”
He stopped. “He was my roommate before we left,” he said.
Doc had scrubbed himself clean. A big marine stepped forward with a small Bible, and the platoon huddled. He began with Psalm 91, verses 5 and 11.
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A second Times article detailed his injuries -
Iraqi Sniper Fire Forces a Healer to Tend His Own Wound
By C. J. CHIVERS
Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby, a Navy corpsman whose efforts to save a wounded marine in Iraq were covered in an article published Nov. 2 in The New York Times, was severely wounded by an Iraqi sniper on Christmas afternoon, his family and the Marine Corps said yesterday.
The bullet struck the left side of his face while he was on the roof of Outpost Omar, the position his unit occupies in Karma, a city near Falluja in Anbar Province.
His jaw and upper palate were damaged extensively, but after several operations he was conscious and on a ventilator in a military hospital in Germany, his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Kenneth M. DeTreux, said by telephone.
Petty Officer Kirby, 22, of Hiram, Ga., was assigned to Weapons Company, Second Battalion, Eighth Marines, serving as the trauma medic for the company’s Second Mobile Assault Platoon. It was his second tour in Iraq. He had married weeks before leaving the United States in July.
He was expected to arrive today at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, where his wife, Lauren Kirby, and his parents, Gail and Jack Kirby, planned to meet him.
Although Petty Officer Kirby cannot speak because of his injuries, his mother said she had communicated with him through his brother-in-law, a serviceman who is stationed in Germany and has been at his bedside, holding a phone to Petty Officer Kirby’s ear.
Petty Officer Kirby listened to his mother and replied by writing notes, which his brother-in-law read aloud.
“He told me, ‘Don’t cry, Mama,’ ” Ms. Kirby said by telephone. “I said, ‘I have to. I’m a mom. That’s what moms do.’ ”
She added, “He wrote, ‘Be strong for me and Lauren.’ ”
In another note, she said, he wrote, simply, “Milkshake.”
Colonel DeTreux said Petty Officer Kirby began writing within minutes of being shot, when he jotted a note to his platoon before being evacuated by helicopter.
In the first note he apologized to the company’s senior enlisted man for being wounded, the colonel said. He then refused a stretcher and insisted on walking to the helicopter.
“He’s tough,” Colonel DeTreux said. “He showed his character, walking onto the aircraft himself.”
The article last month was about the battlefield treatment Petty Officer Kirby provided, and the prayers he said, for a marine who had been shot through the head by an Iraqi sniper.
The marine, Lance Cpl. Colin Smith, had been his roommate in North Carolina before their unit returned to Iraq. Lance Corporal Smith was shot at the end of a raid both men participated in on Karma’s outskirts. He remains under treatment and evaluation for injuries to his skull and brain.
Petty Officer Kirby was wounded when a sniper fired one shot on an otherwise quiet Christmas afternoon, Colonel DeTreux said. He was near one of several rooftop bunkers the company staffs to defend Outpost Omar, which has been attacked by insurgents several times, including once by a truck bomb.
He was the second member of his family to be grievously wounded in Iraq. A cousin, Petty Officer Joseph D. Worley, lost his left leg and suffered gunshot wounds to his right leg in 2004. He also was a corpsman in a Marine Corps unit.
The National Envelope Corporation, of Austell, Ga., where Petty Officer Kirby’s father is a janitor, is taking donations to help his family.
Kathleen Childs, an executive assistant at the company who was helping to manage the donations, said collections began when it was uncertain whether the family could afford to visit Petty Officer Kirby from the moment he arrived in the United States.
Even before Gail Kirby arranged a plane ticket, Ms. Childs said, it was clear she was headed to his bedside, whether she had the money or not.
“His mother said there was no way she was going to stay at home while her boy was that close,” Ms. Childs said. “She was going to start out on foot and walk.”
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| Rosie |
Posted - 12/30/2006 : 22:22:02
count me in |
| Jellybeans003 |
Posted - 12/30/2006 : 21:33:00
I think that the "Operation Home" is a great idea. I have a husband that is currently in Afghanistan and let me tell you, any time someone supports the troops, morale is lifted and it's greatly appreciated. |
| Svenidol |
Posted - 12/08/2006 : 10:46:41
For those of you without myspace, here is the latest bulletin from "Operation Home" -
Daughtry gives a "Thumbs Up" to Operation Home
Although Chris and Daughtry are NOT affiliated in any official capacity with "Operation Home", (nor RCA, American Idol, Fox Networks, 19 , etc etc.) in a bulletin from the Daughtry Myspace page, Chris said -
"Oh yeah, the idea of getting the albums over seas to the troops...brilliant. That means so much. . .Love all of you. God bless-Chris"
For those of you who have already sent out your care packages - AWESOME! Thank You!
For thsoe who have not, yes, the Christmas mailing deadline has passed, but Operation Home is a year-round project. It's never too late! Do you remember as a child going to some relative's house for a belated Christmas celebration? Did Grandma and Grandpa come to visit in January? Do you remember they JOY of MORE Chritmas presents, long after the day had passed? Our men and women in uniform stand watch over liberty's torch 24/7/365 , and we at Operation Home are commited to being there for them long after the holiday season has passed.
Keep up the good work gang! Keep those care packages coming ( or I guess I should say going) , and keep spreading the word! I have heard from a reliable source who must remain anonymous that the entire production and promotion team for Daughtry are behind us , and LOVE the thought of giving something back to those who give so much for each and every one of us.
Have a blessed holiday season, and keep on rockin' on!
Operation Home |
| Chris_Roxx |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 17:38:39
incredible idea!! I'll have to do this tomorrow!!
I wish I read this sooner! |
| Svenidol |
Posted - 11/22/2006 : 09:58:24
In case any of you with myspace have missed your bulletins, please check out
http://www.myspace.com/operation_home
Feedback, input, and suggestions GREATLY appreciated. Here, or on the page message box. |
| Svenidol |
Posted - 11/22/2006 : 07:16:23
This is the body of the email I have sent thus far to Hannity, Fox&Friends, Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. I hope y'all will spread the message to all your friends and family, as well as to any other media personages you can think of who are supporting our American heroes in uniform.
I know that you are a huge supporter of our heroes in uniform, and I wanted to point you to an incredible video I just saw on youtube. It puts images of our American heroes to the sounds of American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry's song "Home". As a suppoter of the band Daughtry, many of the fans are sending care packages to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the new Daughtry CD, and we are dedicating the song "Home" to them.
Here's the link to the video. And if you want more information about "Operation: 'Home'", I'd be more than happy to forward you a more lengthy email.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxJjXiXwlM
Take care, and God Bless!
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| Amy |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 20:41:26
WOW!!! Tears streaming down my face...that video is unbelieveable!
Thanks! |
| Svenidol |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 18:00:23
That video is unbelievable. I thought the song hit me hard before. . . |
| thechriscrew |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 17:54:09
Video for Home (for Operation Home) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxJjXiXwlM |
| isabellemybelle |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 11:56:20
I will definitely support this project. |
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