I am Bob Calvert, the founder and host of Talking with Heroes Talk Show Program based in Colorado Springs. We also have an Online NEWS site www.thankyouforyourservice.us Each issue has had over 100 stories with many of them current news directly from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as military support and veterans groups, events and issues.
My involvement in supporting our troops began almost 8 years ago as a result of my then 18 year-old daughter surprising me by enlisting in the Army. Her boyfriend (later her husband) had already enlisted in the Army. I was not sure how to support her. I searched the Internet and found many military support groups. In Jan 2005 my son n law was deployed to Iraq from Ft Riley on his first deployment. A year later he came back to my daughter and his family and their first child. Keith was later transferred to Ft Carson where we he was deployed for the second time. He was with over 3,500 soldiers with Ft Carson’s 1-8 and the 3BCT 4ID where they did a great job serving for 15 months in Mosul, Baghdad and Taji, Iraq. My brother recently returned from Afghanistan.
Our Talking with Heroes program is not about politics. We are about helping, honoring, and supporting our men and women in the military and their families. We give our military personnel an opportunity to share their mostly untold stories about the work they are doing worldwide. We believe that The American people have a right to hear their positive progress stories and our military personnel have a right to have their stories heard.
We also interview military support and veterans groups for them to share what they do to support our troops, their families, the wounded and more. We have interviewed Gold Star Moms and Dads, Military Wives, Moms and Dads, Wounded Warriors, Veterans, and Corporations about what they do to support our troops. 2011 is the year for the American people to put aside politics and unite behind our troops and their families.
We have been to Iraq five times since 2006 and to Afghanistan three times in 2010 and now July and August 2011.
Americans can watch our men and women from our Army, Marines, Navy, National Guard, Air Force, Army Corp of Engineers, Iraqis and Afghanistan people as they talk about progress and as they share positive stories in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We are looking in 2012 to partner with companies, organizations and individuals in a manner that will allow us all to better unite people. We invite You to Watch these videos then Share them with everybody you can!
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