This was sent to me and I thought that I would share it with the MLUers
THIS TRIBUTE IS FOR ALL THE VETERANS OF WWII REGARDLESS OF
THE FLAG THAT THEY MARCHED UNDER. CLICK OF THE LINK AT THE
BOTTOM AND YOU WILL SEE, HEAR AND KNOW.
The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood!
Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray
Beach, Fla. , eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and
musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event. He pulled up in his
car, and the parking attendant began to speak.
"I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said
bitterly. At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II
veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from
the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you."
Then the old soldier began to cry. "That really got to me," Bierstock
says.
Cut to today.
Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of
Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song
inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful
"Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It
encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors
before they die.
"If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have
been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "The WW II soldiers are
now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to
thank them."
The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on
the Web the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine
countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons
and daughters and grandchildren.
"It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying
that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he
discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in
places such as North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, Italy, Ortona, Normandy, Omaha
Beach, Flaise, Iwo Jima, Bataan, CBI Theater, The Scheldt, The North
Atlantic, Belgium, Holland, and in Bomber Command.
"I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking
about them."
Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional
singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for
so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for
free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in
Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a
Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope
every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.
GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran... from all countries
and THANK you to those of you veterans who may receive this !
Copy and paste (or just click on) THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE
THE PICTURES
(IT TAKES JUST SHORT OF FOREVER, BUT IT'S WORTH IT)
God Bless the USA Canada, Britain and the Commonwealth!
Click here for the song