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Fourth in the Conari Press Call to Action series, this volume profiles 30 amazing young people who have overcome great personal odds to reach out and help others. First-person accounts include an amputee running in the Paralympics; the son of a cancer patient creating support groups for kids with sick parents; a girl who helped her mother and younger sister as they died of AIDS and who is now an AIDS awareness and prevention volunteer; and one of the students from the Littleton, Colorado, shooting who has created a teen drop-in center. With their stories, these remarkable teens take us to the depths of their struggles and the heights of their newfound sense of purpose and peace..
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Every letter, document, task, job description and schedule needed to plan, organize and execute a successful silent auction fund-raiser. Written in an easy-to-read style by two women who've done and seen it all. FUN, FUNNY, and USEFUL!!.
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Some Even Volunteered provides a marvelous description and a succinct evaluation of the life and the achievement of the American soldier in Vietnam trying to "win the hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese. In a style reminiscent of Michael Herr in Dispatches but still distinctly his own, Bradford relates the story of the First Battalion of the 27th Infantry Regiment (First Wolfhounds) of the 25th Infantry Division as they pacified the district of Tri Tam. The First Battalion--which had the highest body count of any rifle battalion in Vietnam--was air-lifted into an NVA rest area south of Dau Tieng (IIId Brigade basecamp) in the district of Tri Tam on 24 October 1968. They had been ordered to interdict the NVA supply line that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia through Dau Tieng to Saigon. They were expected to complete their mission in three days, but they uncovered such an extensive network of headquarters, hospitals, supply, troop concentrations and local support that the mission was extended to a week, then to a month, and finally, to eight months. Eight months later, the Wolfhounds had succeeded. Their fire support base was assaulted three times, their Brigade base twice. They established four independent forts, ran missions throughout the Third Brigade Area of Operations, and accepted the surrender of dozens of Viet Cong and NVA. In effect, they had destroyed an NVA unit of their own size. In vivid, staccato prose, Bradford delivers a first-rate narrative. In addition, the last chapter, entitled, "The Will of the People," provides the reader with one of the best discussions ever written of Vietnam's assumed position in military history..
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This book is dedicated to the few remaining Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II who now are in their mid/late-eighties and are still fighting for benefits they should have received in 1945. For over sixty years, Congress has denied much-earned benefits to these brave men.

May the thousands of Merchant Mariners sleeping in Davy Jones's Locker rest in peace.

On June 19, 2006, President Bush addressed the graduating class at Kings Point, New York. Some remarks were, "In times of war, the Merchant Marine is the lifeline to our troops overseas. In the early years of World War II, America's efforts to supply our allies in Europe were threatened by the German U-boats that were sinking our Merchant ships faster than we could build them."

He didn't mention the Merchant Marine casualty rate was one in twenty-six killed. They were frozen, burned, starved, and shot. Some vanished from the face of the earth when ammo ships and tankers were sunk.

They did not receive benefits. They were (and still are) forgotten heroes.

Read more about Merchant Marines during World War II.

Call your Congress person. Bill HR # 23, introduced by Bob Filner from California, January 2007, is a bill to give just compensation to World War II Merchant Marine Veterans. Please call.

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Title: Fewer people volunteered in 2006.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21 Issue: 9 Page: 8(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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