I’m not sure which is the more enraging right now.
That a hotel seems to have a company policy to refuse accommodation for any service member in the UK.
Or that the (parent?) company has the gall to call itself “American Amusements” with such a policy in place.
What
The
Fuck?
Such a policy sure as hell isn’t “American” (unless you count certain unmentionable crazies who qualify as “American” solely on the fact it’s their citizenship, not their philosophy).
From “American Amusement”’s website:
American Amusements Ltd is one of the UK’s fastest growing and most successful Leisure Company’s.
I was answering an email from the mother of the singer/songwriter for Hailing Star, when it occurred to me that people in the UK might not know what PGR does.
So it was off to YouTube to find some videos.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a Private or a General - if the family asks, as many of us as are able will turn up to show respect and our thanks.
[Edit: August 24th @ 0923] The site seems to be back up, my guess is DNS decided to bork for a while.
I noticed Operation Braveheart’s website is down. I’m not sure why, but if it’s a technical problem and anyone reading this (Hailing Starband members?) has a way of contacting Mr Godfrey, I’d appreciate it if they could pass this on to him and let him know that I’d be honoured to offer hosting for his site.
Almost everything coming out of the UK about veterans of late has been bad - the state of equipment for the British armed forces, the attitudes of the civilians.
Especially the attitudes of the civilians.
So it hit me right in the gut to read on the BBC’s news site about Hailing Star.
They’re a teenage metal band in Devon, from the same town as a hero who fell in 2007, Rifleman Daniel Coffey, 2nd Btn The Rifles.
This group of teenagers (their lead singer is only 15) have written a song, “Lost Heroes” in memory of Rifleman Coffey, and other heroes who have fallen.
I was standing in Arlington Cemetery in V.A when a huge storm was rolling in. I noticed these Air force soldiers standing so perfectly still. As the weather took a turn for the worse, these magnificent soldiers stood there ground. I was truly amazing to see them just standing there as the winds and rain were blowing tress and power lines over. WOW.
We’re still working on cleaning up the pictures we took over Memorial Day Weekend, and will post them as soon as they’re ready, but in the meantime, here’s the videos we shot.
Apologies for the quality, the videos were taken with a digital camera, not a video camera. The sound isn’t “wonderful” for the same reason, but you get the idea of why “Rolling Thunder” is a very appropriate name for the event.
Since I’ve added the pictures from Rolling Thunder 2005 and 2006, I thought I might as well include the video we took in 2007. It’s short (the memory card was small), about 4 minutes covering the head of the rally as it reached the National Archives building on the Mall.
The video was made with a digital camera, not a “video camera” by any means - but the sound gives you a pretty good idea of where Rolling Thunder gets its name - It goes on for 4 hours!
Hopefully, this year we’ll get many more pictures. It’s just hard to remember to take any in the middle of everything.
While I was moving files over to new servers, I discovered a folder of *old* images from my old author site. I’ve put them up on my Picasa site, but here are some of them in all their glory.
While I was moving files over to new servers, I discovered a folder of *old* images from my old author site. I’ve put them up on my Picasa site, but here are some of them in all their glory.
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