Andrew Healey's Blog » Military http://halfloaded.com Smash forehead on keyboard to continue... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:11:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Announcing Jake’s Fund http://halfloaded.com/blog/announcing-jakes-fund/ http://halfloaded.com/blog/announcing-jakes-fund/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:24:40 +0000 Andrew http://halfloaded.com/?p=426 Online donations are up (http://www.jakesfund.com/).  Please forward to as many people as possible.  Please help spread the word.

There isn’t a lot one can say to make sense of this situation.  Corporal Waggoner and his family need the help of you and all the others who have worn the uniform.  Jake returned from Iraq in March 2007 and soon became married.  Shortly after, his wife gave birth to healthy baby girl, Bella.  A couple months ago, the biopsy results for a tumor in his brain came back.  Jacob Waggoner was given six to twelve months to live.  At the same time Jake got the news, the father of a beautiful little girl found out he was to become a father again.

Anybody who has served with Jake knows he is a fighter.  Jake is taking steps to fight this tumor so that he can see his child born and spend as much quality time with his family as possible.  He is on a strict regimen of medications.  His seizures and migraine headaches are slowing down as he cleanses his body.  His diet of only organic foods has been helping his quality of life.

The reality however, is that Jake and his family needs our help.  The medications are expensive.  Organic food has more than doubled his grocery bill.  And, he is unable to work due to his medications and seizures.

Please help Jake and his family in their time of need.  You can read more about Jake on a website that was setup to aid in the fundraising: http://www.jakesfund.com/. Donations can also be made at any Bank of America.  Just reference the account “the Waggoner Trust Fund”.

We have also added a Facebook group and Twitter account to help spread the word:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=388178191647

http://twitter.com/JakesFund

Thank you for spreading the word and helping a Veteran of this great country.

Comm Platoon, H&S Co, 4th LSB

]]> http://halfloaded.com/blog/announcing-jakes-fund/feed/ 0 Where the Sidewalk Ends http://halfloaded.com/blog/where-the-sidewalk-ends/ http://halfloaded.com/blog/where-the-sidewalk-ends/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:54:14 +0000 Andrew http://halfloaded.com/?p=109 There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

- Shel Silverstein

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Now, I just wish you all didn’t ruin the economy while we were gone!

A

]]> http://halfloaded.com/blog/8-october-2008/feed/ 0 16 Aug 2008 http://halfloaded.com/blog/16-aug-2008/ http://halfloaded.com/blog/16-aug-2008/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:49:58 +0000 Andrew http://halfloaded.com/?p=104 Well, it wasn’t the greatest way to spend a birthday but I did get to mark another day off the calendar. That is about all I am liberty to discuss. Here is a picture from the sunrise this morning here in Iraq. I hope everyone is well. Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I can’t wait to get home.

 

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