Vicky Leandros,
Alexandra, Diana Ross & The
Supremes, The Temptations, The Platters, Gary Pucket & The Union Gap, The
Drifters, 50's & 60's, Old Country Music, Old Western Music, International Music and a variety of other stuff depending on my mood.
Movies
Paint Your Wagons, Spaghetti Westerns, Action, Sci-Fi, (Censored), All Charles Bronson movies, all Sean Connery Movies, Many Bruce Willis, and a bunch of others.
Television
U.F.O., Law & Order CSI and SVU reruns on USA, House, Simpson,
Malcolm in the Middle, married with Children, Dr
Who, Court TV, and a variety of other stuff and lots of news on Fox.
Books
Does The Cat In The hat count as a book??
Heroes
All the men and women that have served or are currently serving in our armed forces honorably to defend our nation, to protect our freedom.
I'm Q, an American, a proud citizen of the United States of America, an amateur
photographer and novice web designer who has taken on a task to remind
people of our heroes, of our veterans, of our women and men serving honorably in
the United States Military, and of our heroes that have paid the ultimate price
for your freedom!!
I started my initial project in May of 2000 with my Vietnam
website dedicated to to a group of Marines that served in Vietnam. I have
located and reunited many of them. While at a reunion in D.C. I received
an award from them. This tribute site has over 3,000 Images and over 2,000
pages.
12/30/00 "FROM WHAT I GOT FROM YOUR WEB SITE Q IS THAT I'AM VERY PROUD TO BE AND SERVE IN OUR MARINE CORP AND WHEN I LOOK AT OLD GLORY I ALWAYS REMBER THE MARINES THAT FOUGHT FOR HER THAT IS WAY I'LL LOVE HER AND FOR WHAT SHE STANDS FOR THANK YOU Q FOR THE HISTORY"
12/25/00 "I just spent an hour looking at your site. The pictures brought back quite a few memories. You have an outstanding site. It is truthful and presents war as it really was. Great job. Shows a whole lot of dedication to the brothers of Delta 1/5...Semper Fidelis Bro. Boondocker,
aka-Rich" Read more comment by visiting this old
guest book.
On March 17, 2003 I started web preparations for the upcoming war in
Iraq/Afghanistan. I have since dedicated the majority of my time and resources
to preserving the memories of our heroes that served in Iraq
or Afghanistan
and have deceased. I started a website to honor these heroes and to help people
remember who they are. Little did I know what kind of commitment to do
this I was facing.
A couple months later in 2003, I was approached by a friend that worked
at a funeral home, asking if I would take some photos for a mother of a hero
killed in Iraq. I said I was honored to and only armed with a Sony Mavica
floppy drive camera and about 200 floppy disk in a bag, I shot my first service
for one of our heroes. Cpl
Travis Bradach-Nall . The big B/W photo was posted at the request of the
mother.
It was later, after I handed off the photos that I realized I was doing
something good to show my thanks for their sacrafice. It took a long time
to get everything together, to learn about DoD releases to use them to track and
figure out who to contact etc. Since then I've been on over 200 missions for the
families of our heroes. I travel as far north as the Canadian border and as far
south as San Bruno CA and as far east as Boise Idaho area.
I've worn out the Sony Mavica, 2 Kodak cameras, a Minolta Dimage 7 and 3
Nikon cameras. It wasn't really till late 2006 when I started to beg people for
help. I have gotten way over my head and still at it.
Along with tracking our heroes and adding them to the website, for each name
I added at least 1 page. All done by me manually. I also started to
track AP headers which I still do to this date and logged many stories from the
early part of the war. I continued the headers but stopped adding stories,
it was just too much work. As of 01/28/08 I have logged 1775 days. Visit www.031903.org
. There are over 7000 pages here.
Someone tells me there is no tribute site for the folks that died in Panama,
so I responded with www.OperationJustCause.org
. There are other projects, just visit www.OurWarHeroes.net
.
So, not to drag this profile too much longer, over 70,000 Miles traveled,
Over 85,000 photos I shot prepped for the families, over 46,500 photos posted
from various sources, and over 28,000 pages created later.... I'm still at
it.
I also helped build the first memorial, the Afghan/Iraq
War Memorial located in Salem Oregon next to the VA building. Assisted with 9/11
Healing Fields. Numerous Home Comings for our troops and individual
military members returning home. Mailed out over 5,000 postcards and
handed out over 10,000 business cards, both with my simple 2 lines: Don't
Let The Memory Of them Drift Away www.IraqWarHeroes.org
.
I no longer have a personal life, so if I seem impersonal... forgive me
because my head is probably someplace else. I wear darker prescription
glasses so I can see and have a few less light induced migraines. I lost a
part of me to cancer a few years ago and don't know how the leftover stuff is
doing. My views on Politics, Pro Sports and Religions is not
mainstream. I'm a Cipher.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone that supports my mission!!!
Vicky Leandros (Singer), Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, Abraham Lincoln, John Wayne, Roy Orbinson, Alexandra, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, All the women and men proudly serving in our military and others....
Thank you for adding me. We WILL NOT FORGET! Praise YHVH for all that He has walked our men through, as He did in ancient times. I praise His Holy Name that He is the same yesterday, today and forever!
I pray that you and your precious family have a most wonderful, blessed, peaceful and BEAUTIFUL Sabbath in Messiah Yeshua, and I pray that YHVH bless you and your precious family. I also send my love to you and your family. May you glorify YHVH our Elohim in all that you do!
Hey Q, just stopping by to see how things were going. Hope everything's going great. Thanks for everything you keep doing. It means a lot to our family! Keep up the good work!
Hi Q., I really admire all the hard work that you put in to running your websites. They really are great and I am sure that you have plenty of angels watching over you to help give you the strength to carry on with this very admirable task.Take care Q. and have a really great week.Love and hugs from Angie.xxx
I have not preached the word recently, but all of Q’s supporters must remember the costs of fuel these days. Q needs our help more than ever to make all those missions and it’s for your heroes who served. DONATE MONEY TODAY! $1.00, $20.00, $100.00 or more if you can spare it. Support our fallen heroes, support Q www.iraqwarheroes.org Smiles fron Hunny :-)
Thank you so much! I hope you have a great week too. Please let me know if there is a way that I can help your website. We DO make a tutu for the little girls of our troops who have passed away.. it is called "The Fallen" and I don't have it on the website yet, but perhaps we can find a way to advertise your site somewhere. If you know of any little girls who have lost one of their parents in Iraq or Afghanistan please let me know and I will get them a free tutu.
When we see Him face to face, On clouds of glory from on high; Our glorification realized thanks to His loving grace, It truly was a walk worthwhile. GOD BLESS~ HEIDI
Just wanted to thank you for the add. Also thank you so much for all your support, care and dedication. If only the world had more unconditional people like you.
Thank you for the pictures you posted today of Justin's funeral. It was so kind of you to remember him this way. My heart still grieves for him, but it does my heart good to know there are good people like you out there who will do everything in their power to make sure none of our precious soldiers are ever forgotten.
God Bless you Q for what you do for the families of those lost. We will never forget.
Thank you for being our friend, supporting our wounded, veterans and for supporting our men and women still serving. Everyone is welcome to add us as a friend.
Hey Q, I hope your hand is better. I loved the I-84 West Pics. I couldn't get the comment thing to work. Hope you enjoy your weekend. Thanks again for all you do!!!!!!
