Monthly Archives: May 2008

A Nice Memorial Day Tribute

I received this today from military.com. Maybe it will help to put some things in perspective this Holiday weekend and what it is all about.

www.military.com/memorial-day/harley-davidson-tribute/?ESRC=marine.nl

Bouhammer Out…

Congress is at work

Well it is good to see someone in Congress doing something.

www.military.com/news/article/house-approves-financial-relief-for-military-personnel.html?col=1186032310810&ESRC=topstories.RSS

Book Review Needed

I have been actively pursuing many different outlets to try and get a professional book review of The Sandbox book. In order for it to really take off and get huge national coverage and attention, it really needs a professional review. So I have written Glen Beck, Bill O’Rielly, Good Morning America so far to try and get them on-board and review it.

Of course I guess getting Oprah to review it would be the ultimate publicity, but not sure I have those connections. I am also trying to get USA Today and Military Times to do a review. If anyone reading this has any connections with anybody that could do a review, please contact me via leaving a comment on this entry or email me at admin@bouhammer.com and I will touch base with you.

Memorial Day 2008 activities

Memorial Day 2008 will be a tad different this year. I, along with Owen (from the book-signing tour back in October, and a gentleman named Stefan Ralph who also had some blog entries in The Sandbox book will be participating in a Memorial Day parade in the town of Millbrook NY. Millbrook is a classic small town with one big tree lined main street with small shops on both sides. There is a wonderful garden-covered hill park with monuments to veterans of previous wars at the end of the street.

So the three of us will be participating in this parade and when it is over we will be heading over to Merritt Bookstore where we will conduct another book-signing event. David Stanford and I have been talking about doing this for a while, so I am glad to see it finally happening again. So if you are going to be in the neighborhood, stop by and see us as we love to meet as many people as we can.

5/21 Freedom Watch Afghanistan

Today’s Freedom Watch Afghanistan; covering AF Zoomies performing MSR missions, and Days of Remembrance at Baghram Airbase.

Vindicated

I came across this news blip today and felt a little vindicated. I have been saying since the first of the year that 2008 would continue the trend and the violence would continue to rise. Even though I hate to be right on this subject, I am glad to see the senior leadership starting to admit this. This is the cold hard fact, and regardless of how many mid-level people want to take credit for something that is not a reality, it is what it is.