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Jellybeans003
Chris Fan
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Posted - 12/30/2006 : 21:33:00
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| 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. |
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Rosie
Chris Crazed
USA
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Posted - 12/30/2006 : 22:22:02
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| count me in |
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Svenidol
Chris Crew Chief
USA
1723 Posts |
 Posted - 01/17/2007 : 22:32:55
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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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Svenidol
Chris Crew Chief
USA
1723 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 19:20:50
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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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isabellemybelle
Chris Addict
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 22:37:48
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Svenidol
Chris Crew Chief
USA
1723 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 08:34:38
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Originally posted by isabellemybelle
Sorry about that posting this again! ;)
Sorry!?!? Don't be sorry! Can't post it enough in my book!  |
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Svenidol
Chris Crew Chief
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2007 : 08:58:54
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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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