A service to our Military Families..

I offer my services..

Published on July 6, 2007 By ShadowWar In War on Terror

This is a note to all of our fantastic military families out there that have loved ones serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I recently (about March) began posting videos from the DOD on a YouTube Channel. I have over 100 now, with over 55,000 video views. The videos are ones you more than likely will not see on the news. I try to update it about every other day with new ones. But that is not the purpose of this article and I digress. A few weeks ago I got a message on my YouTube account from a young lady who was very excited and told me that I had posted a video of her Dad who she had not seen in almost a year! She was very grateful and wanted to know if I could keep an eye out for her Dad and if I found any more to let her know. That’s when I got several e-mails from other family members of this same soldier and I thought what a great thing. The soldier’s wife even wrote me an e-mail thanking me. I was touched, so I went digging and found several photos, about 10 videos and several audio interviews of this same soldier and I sent them to the family. What a great response I got! We have since begun to e-mail back and forth and just yesterday I sent them a new video. I have heard from his Wife, Sister, Sister-in-law, Daughter and Niece. What a treat!

So it gave me an idea. If I can search for one soldiers family why not others? I have press access to several DOD sites with images and videos and thought it would be a good way of helping out our military families here at home. So here is my idea..

If you have a loved one serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, drop me an e-mail with the service members first and last name and unit and I will search the press sites for images and videos to see if they are listed, if they are I will send you a note and let you know where to download the file from. My small way of saying thank you.

E-mail me at : USArmyVet@cox.net

You may see my YouTube Military Channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=3rdID8487

Comments

Adventure-Dude

on Jul 06, 2007

The videos are ones you more than likely will not see on the news.

Which is a large reason why I don't watch much news anymore.

ShadowWar, I think this is a very noble opportunity for you. You may not influence the masses but what you are doing will merit much reward. I pray that your efforts are highly successful. It saddens me deeply how much this war has been politicized. The only losers I am seeing are our military families by being used as pawns to gain political points.

I thank you for your hard work in presenting news from time to time.

ShadowWar

on Jul 06, 2007

AD,

Thank you. What else can I say.

Texas Wahine

on Jul 06, 2007

I doubt you have anything with my Soldier, but I'll shoot you an email anyways.

This is a nice thing to do. Sounds very time-consuming, though.

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