--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> SKIP THAT WAS EXCELLANT ON BEHAVE OF THE LOUIS E. PERRY AMERICAN LEGION 523
> ASBURY PARK N.J. WHICH MAURICE IS A MEMBER THANK YOU IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU
> WHO MAKE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS.IT IS WHEN I WAS SETTING UP THINGS BEFORE
> THE BENEFIT A LADY i FORGOT HER NAME.SEEN ME HANGING A FLAG UP.SHE ASK ME IF
> I WOULD LIKE A LARGER FLAG.IT WAS HER HUSBANDS A VETERAN SHE SAID HE LOVED
> MUSIC AD COMING TO THE WONDER BAR.SHE DONATED HIS MEMORAIL FLAG SHE GOT LAST
> YEAR ON MARCH 11 ONE YEAR TO THE DAY.SHE LEFT & WAS BACK IN 15 MINUTES.THAT
> WAS SPECAIL.IT BROUGT SEVERAL TEARS DOWN MY EYES WHEN SHE DONATED IT.DEBBIE
> SAID LET IT OUT JIM.IS PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF THAT DO STORIES THAT MAKE PEOPLE
> LOVE TO COME OUT TO PLACES LIKE THE WONDER BAR.YOU ARE A LARGE PART OF THAT
> BENEFIT LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU JAMES GRABE
> -
> -- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Concert Honoring SSgt. Maurice Craft
> > http://www.wonderbarnj.com/Special/Maurice_Craft.htm
> > http://www.wonderbarnj.com/Special/Gary_US_Bonds.htm
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Dear Everyone,
> > > Back on 12/29/03 when I first seen a story on SSG Maurice Craft on
> > > Channel 12 News at 1130 at night I wasn't able to sleep that night.The
> > > next day I was at his Grandmas with a dozen donuts flowers offering any
> > > help in anyway.Thats the day I met his grandma Maddie Davis she show me
> > > 2 pictures of a young man with 2 different Presidents one while in was
> > > in 10 grade Ii Asbury Park High School winning a youth essay contest
> > > with President Clinton & the second with President Bush getting the
> > > Purple Heart after being wounded serving in our Armed Forces both
> > > pictures taken in Washington D.C.Not to many Grandmothers that raised
> > > their Grandson has a picture of them with 2 Presidents.My Commander in
> > > the American Legion 523 Ben Schiender & I presented her with a Blue
> > > Star Banner.Ben was also their on morning to shuffle some snow for his
> > > grandma at 7:00 a.m. during a snow storm we had last year at his
> > > Grandmother house she had it done already.Maddie Davis is one special
> > > person. When Maurice & I finally got to meet after talking on the phone
> > > & e-mailing each other back & fourth other for several months a tear
> > > ran down our eyes as the room got silent all his Cousins & Aunts was
> > > their talking with him.We shook hands & talk for awhile.Normally a
> > > person is forgotten about after serving their Country & being
> > > wounded.How do you say Thank You to what everyone did for him with this
> > > Benefit & others things in the Past..It gives me goose bumps just
> > > thinking about what you all have done as I write this.What you all have
> > > done & are doing you can't put a price on it a pretty good in helping
> > > him Heal to which he will have a Life Time of problems.He will always
> > > look back at what the people from Asbury Park, Musicians from areas that
> > > are pretty far from A/P & people in surrounding communities did for
> > > him.Windmill restaurant for all the food and what they are doing for our
> > > Veterans Marines in Red Bank.There are some people in Washington D.C. &
> > > Ft. Bragg N.C. home of the 82 Airborne that know about a town called
> > > Asbury Park not only for a town wear people became famous in Music but
> > > on how much people care about one of their Hometown Hero's.His 2
> > > Daughters will look back at this I am sure as they get older in Life and
> > > say what you all are doing was very special for their Father. As a
> > > Veteran and as a person from the City of Asbury Park.I took a stand
> > > while a Commander in the VFW about a Flag Flying on our Waterway &
> > > finally got one up on one of the greatest Waterways in the United States
> > > it is because of people like yourselves that Flag should be flying on
> > > our Waterway not only for Veterans in a time of war.It is people like
> > > yourselves that make the Foundation of our Country by doing all things
> > > you due..Next time you see the Flag Flying on our Waterway or anywhere
> > > think of yourselves because you all make it what it is & stands for.
> > > THANK YOU AGAIN
> > >
> > > James P Grabe
> > > Louis E. Perry
> > > American Legion 523
> > > Service Officer
> > > Asbury Park N.J.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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