It Is With Honor....

Hi. My name is Amy. I come from a military family. Most, but not all, have served during war time. My grandfather was a Master Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps. He served in Korea, Germany, Japan, and Hawaii but the scariest of all his deployments was to Vietnam. He spent 2 tours there totalling over 27 months. My grandmother still tells stories of what it was like to be a Marine's wife then. He retired after 22 years of service.

My brother is currently a Specialist with the LA National Guard. He has already served one year long tour in Iraq. I know what it is like to go days without a call or an e-mail or to check the icasualties.org site on a daily basis just to see if those killed were from our state. That way I would know if I could go through the day in peace or in anxiety... but all the while in prayer. Some who went with him didn't come home alive. My brother was very close to death a few times. He made it home though. But if he hadn't, I would hope that someone, somewhere would remember his name, would remember what he did for our country... our freedom. I also have many other family members and friends who are currently deployed or just returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. They all sacrificed so much. Some Gave ALL.

I wanted to become an Administrator here on this site because for me, sending packages and letters just weren't enough anymore. Don't get me wrong, I will still send the packages and letters but I also wanted to give back to those families who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Those who died with such honor should be remembered by more than just their families. I want to help Lauren accomplish that.

I plead to you today to:

1. Spread the word about this site. Let your friends know about it. Write a post about it. Put the link on your blog. You can get the HTML code for the graphic here.

2. Write a tribute for one of these heroes. Simply choose a name, google it or check the sites on the right side of this site for information about them, post a tribute on your blog, and e-mail us the link so we can put it on the site. You can write more than one if you choose. I myself have committed to at least 2 a month. Just remember though, as big as the blogging world is, if we all only wrote one tribute we could cover them all. Please help us honor these men and women, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and friends to so many. You can find out exactly how to write a tribute by clicking here. For names or to view already written tributes for reference, check the following links:

Iraq Casualties 2006-2007

Iraq Casualties prior to 2006

Afghanistan Casualties

3. Come on board as an administrator. We need all the help we can get. With all of the casualties listed we will need much help getting a tribute for each one. Please consider joining our team.

4. Pray for our military. Pray for our president and congress. Pray for the families of those deployed. Pray for this ministry to bring comfort and honor to those who so greatly deserve it.

To all military personnel and families of those deployed....

THANK YOU!

Your service to this country is invaluable. You are all in our prayers!

A Come Back

To be completely honest, this is a very difficult tribute blog to run.

At it's inception, the three women who began this blog could not have imagined how many more names would have to be added to this list of casualties. I, Lauren, personally didn't think that almost a year after I typed the first name there would be hundreds yet to add.

We took a break. I think we all needed it.

It's been many months and it seems time to make a come back. To continue to honor those who didn't take a break, those who continue to protect and serve no matter how hard it gets.

I'm looking for a few people who wish to help out in this endeavor. I'm going to make a few changes in the way it's run in order to make things a little easier. If you're interested in joining the administration team, please email me. You'll find the email address in the sidebar.

If you would like to write a tribute for your blog, just go ahead and write one. Pick out a name of a soldier on the list, google his name or search the links listed in the sidebar for information about him/her. When you have published the post email us with the full link to that particular post. Once we receive it we will link the soldier's name to your post and email you the code for the graphic. Hopefully this will streamline things.

Starting next week we will begin adding names to the list again. We will also try to catch up on all those emails.

Thank you for all your patience.

Need the graphic code?

Great!

We think it's an absolutely wonderful idea that you support this blog by placing our graphic in the sidebar of your blog. It's such a great idea that we've decided to place the code here. This way, you don't even have to ask us for it. Now how easy is that?

Code:

<center><a href="http://some-gave-all.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s101/blogusage/
SomeGaveAllButton.jpg" border="0" alt="
Some Gave All Tribute Blog"></a></center>

It should look like this when you are done:



By the way, THANK YOU!