Spontaneous Acts of Kindness For Our Men and Women in Uniform--Follow Up #1

Checking Blogs for Bush today and found some comments from others who have joined the spontaneous-acts-of-kindness-for-our-military campaign--or who were already engaged in similar kind acts for our brave and beloved military volunteers. I happened across the entries accidentally (they are about half way down the page) and it really made my day!!!

Just goes to prove the point: There are many, many fantastic citizens all around this, the greatest Country on God's green Earth!

Pass it forward....al Qaida cannot beat this spirit with hate and vilification of all we hold dear! If this is the first time you've heard of the campaign, click here to see what it's all about.

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"People will forget what you say, they'll forget what you do, but they'll never forget how you made them feel...." --Author Unknown

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BTW--Did anyone else watch with amazement the day-long video of the Coast Guard search and rescue teams in New Orleans and Mississippi? One orange-clad Coast Guard rescuer, I believe it was Rady seen in picture below, seemed to be peering into bushes and trees and upper floors of flooded homes all day long - all the while dangling on the end of rope hanging out of the helicopter. When he would spot a person in distress, down would come the basket, the rescue would take place, and off they'd go again. The teamwork between pilot and rescuer at the end of the rope was phenomenal! I just gained even more respect for our Coast Guard watching them in action.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott D. Rady, 34, of Tampa, Fla., pulls a pregnant woman from her flooded New Orleans home here today. Rady is a rescue swimmer sent from Clearwater, Fla., to help aid in search and rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Huerta hoists two children into a Coast Guard rescue helicopter Aug 29, 2005. The Coast Guard has begun damage assessment overflights as well as search and rescue operations following Hurricane Katrina. Huerta, 34, of Tampa, Fla., is an aviation maintenance technician stationed at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala.

Source: Coast Guard Storm Watch Website.

Scott Rady Photo Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi
Steven Huerta Photo Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi