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Written by Jeff Bader
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:50 |
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Arrived back in Austin late this afternoon from our trip to Fort Meyers in Virginia. Soldiers Angels had been invited to attend a party and watch the AFC Championship football game with General Cartwright the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and some of our wounded heroes from Walter Reed. We worked the room with the brass (there were three Joint Chiefs at the party), intoduced ourselves to some celebrity football players and Washington Redskin cheerleaders (I just love pom poms), and spent most of the game moving from table to table to chat with the wounded guys and gals. Rich, the guy in the picture below, came wheeling by us and I asked him if he was Drew or Archie, as in the current Saints quarterback and fellow Austinite Drew Brees, or Archie Manning, the famous Saints quarterback from the 60's, and father of current NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli. He cracked up and we spent most of the first quarter listening to some great "war" stories. Rich was special forces and was blown up three times "having not learned the lesson the first two times". Once when he was "halo" parachuting over Cuba he accidently smacked into a British Airways Airplane. "I had enough time to think uh oh this is going to hurt." We all got a good laugh at that. Pretty good sense of humor for a guy who's got daily migrane headaches, nerve damage, and lives with a lot of pain.
Rich and Toby at the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Football Party Fort Meyers Virginia January 24, 2010
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Cartwright and Toby Ft. Meyers Virginia
An anxious moment during the Jets - Colts game. I was one of the few there who actually remembered the 1969 Jets - Colts game in Super Bowl III and the "old man" won a few football trivia question prizes for the Joes at my table. The advantages of getting old too quick and smart too slow.
and finially Check out this picture from Time Magazine....General McChrystal using a Soldiers Angels coffee mug!
General Stanley McChrystal (second from top right) Afghanistan Commander's Update Assessment Briefing December 2009.
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