[303rd-Talk] Before You Go - A tribute to WWII Vets

[harold susskind]

Bill:
Thanks for your tribute.  Unfortunately Congress  doesn't agree with you.  Any veteran who stayed in or got recalled back and retired from the military will lose up to thousands in overpayment because a law passed by Congress in 1998,    Public Law 105-261 which set the retirement criteria at over age 70 and have paid into the fund for 30 years and 360 payments.  Most of us who have reached 30 years in 1973 have to keep paying until October of 1998 for over 400 payments ( payments at $390 per month) .  They wiil not be entitled to any refund. The law was signed by President Bush on 17 Oct. 1998.  I'm not sure how it afected the people who did most of the work, The enlisted Man.  Here's a great example of what relatives are doling.  The daughter and granddaughter of our Tail gunner, Cal Turkington, are running the Honor Flights for Vets out of Chicago. She was three years old when he was killed.  Sorry for being so long winded.  Hal Susskind 
   
 
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> From: twomey45 at msn.com
> To: 303rd-talk at 303rdbg.com
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:12:42 -0400
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> Subject: [303rd-Talk] Before You Go - A tribute to WWII Vets
> 
> I'm forwarding this mainly  for  the  link you should  follow  to  the  tribute;  but,  you'll  be  interested in the text  as  well
>  
> Bill Twomey
>  
> 
> Subject:         Before You Go - A tribute to WWII Vets Importance:     High 
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> The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood! 
> Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla. , eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event.
> He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. 'I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing,' he said bitterly.
> At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, 'Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you .'
> Then the old soldier began to cry. 
> 'That really got to me,' Bierstock says. 
> Cut to today. 
> Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful 'Before You Go' does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die.
> 'If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot,' says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. 'The WW II soldiers are now dyi ng at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them.'
> The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web, the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veteran s, their sons and daughters and grandchildren.
> 'It made me cry,' wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss ' the unspeakable horrors' he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. 'I can never thank them enough,' the son wrote. 'Thank you for thinking about them.'
> Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Alread y they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.
> GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran... and THANK you to those of you veterans who may receive this ! 
> CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE THE PICTURES: 
> http://www.managedmusic.com/Music/PlayBeforeYouGo.php 
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