April 28th, the sun shone down on firefighters from Bates Tech Fire, Steilacoom, Pierce County Fire District 17 (Welcome aboard!), and Riverside, along with Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, members of the Yellow Ribbon Club from Keithley Middle School ... and several of the lovelies from the Tacoma Hooters They were all together to help HeroToHero.US raise funds to help cover the ever rising gas prices before the upcoming annual 55 city tour honoring our Fallen and Wounded Heroes. **(We'll be posting the final route and schedule later this week.)
The day was long and the cars lined up ... at last count we washed 134 cars. There was lots of silliness, and laughter to go with the suds ... but hey, this IS a morale program, right?
When all was said and done, we raised a good chunk and think we may have gotten the gas covered, (she wrote, crossing her fingers) and a few nights of stays on the road for those rare spots where we don't have a department putting us up.
No matter, somehow it always seems to work out. This has been the little effort that could. From a single idea to let our home state heroes show their respect and support to our Washington State deployed troops ... to an international troop morale campaign. Unreal. And it is the efforts such as you see in these pictures that tell the story of how it has happened.
Thank you sooooooo much to the Heroes that stepped up for us once again! Any success this effort has is owed to so many of you who have volunteered a few hours, a few day, and a few years ... and a very special thanks to you who are in it for the long haul with us ... We salute you!
FYI ... There are a lot of pix from this event, there were several cameras out there, and there was a lot of fun, so the clicks came quickly. Hope you enjoy! There are still about 500 random shots!)
O and one of those special moments happened when two young airmen came by for a car wash, realized our effort and went back on base to change into their dcu pants to come to represent for McChord's airmen by working theit butts off all day for the cause. Nicely done, gentlemen.
And other troops came out to give back, after returning from deployments where they had already received shirts. You can define hero in many ways, but whem young returned troops give up their precious newly attained free time to give back to efforts supporting those still deployed ... it speaks volumes. They were really heroes to our cause, and the kids who watched them learned from them, about teamwork, about giving back, about representing, and all the while being fun, and yet professional. We would work with any of them again, and look forward to doing just that! A lot of them will be on the I-5 overpasses with their departments for this year's roll out, named for Tacoma BC, Jim Hannity, on May 12th. If you're local ... come be a part of this one!
Enjoy the pix!
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1 comment:
The picturesss are [[ great. ]]
not just these ones on thiss sectionn but all of themm.
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those fire-fighters are very photogenicc.
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lol
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