{"id":1006,"date":"2007-12-21T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/thanks-to-the-troops\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T17:06:25","slug":"thanks-to-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tying up loose ends at work today (because I have four&#8230;count &#8217;em&#8230;four days off)\u00c2\u00a0and trying to hook up with my former battle buddy so I missed this today &#8211; time to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2007\/12\/blackfive-tv--c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blackfive<\/a>, offered to\u00c2\u00a0assemble a video &#8220;thanks&#8221; for bloggers to send out to the troops for the holidays. This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q_HEEuipmYM&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2007\/12\/blackfive-tv--c.html\" target=\"_blank\">finished product<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0Some day I&#8217;ll figure out this embedding video stuff, until I do, just click, please.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many Christmases I spent away from my family, with no computers, no email, no YouTube &#8211; not knowing what the people in my country were thinking about me and my troops\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; just doing\u00c2\u00a0our jobs and hoping for the best. This was a great opportunity to tell this generation of warriors that\u00c2\u00a0they&#8217;re loved and thought of fondly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Blackfive and Uncle Jimbo for giving me the opportunity to send my thanks and holiday wishes to the troops.<\/p>\n<p>Other bloggers who took advantage of this great opportunity were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2007\/12\/20\/a-blogger-video-tribute-for-the-troops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Malkin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/MaryKatharineHam\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Katherine Hamm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchillsparrot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Churchill&#8217;s Parrot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Soldier&#8217;s Mom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luoamerican.com\/baldilocks\/2007\/12\/blackfive-merry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baldilocks<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(I&#8217;ve never met her, but I knew her as soon as she came on the screen)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armywifetoddlermom.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/thinking-of-and-thanking-troops-this.html\" target=\"_blank\">Army Wife Toddler Mom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usogirls.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">USO Girls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loopy Libertarian at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromedcurses.com\/2007\/12\/20\/so-weve-gone-to-dork-level-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chromed Curses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bearcreekledger.com\/2007\/12\/20\/my-christmas-thanks-to-the-troops-via-blackfive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Creek Ledger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/didyouseethis.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love, Mom (Notes from the fridge)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tammisworld.mu.nu\/archives\/249942.php\" target=\"_blank\">Tammi&#8217;s World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That 1 Guy at <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbrains.mu.nu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drunken Wisdom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click these guys, thank them and\u00c2\u00a0support them because they aren&#8217;t ashamed to support the troops.\u00c2\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QVDxmUyF95c\" target=\"_blank\">check the video response<\/a> to Blackfive&#8217;s video &#8211; with scenes from all my favorite movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tying up loose ends at work today (because I have four&#8230;count &#8217;em&#8230;four days off)\u00c2\u00a0and &hellip; <a title=\"Thanks to the troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1006\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks to the troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}