You Served Radio Live Blog
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6:59:25 PM: The Show starts in one min.
7:13:24 PM: Playing Freedom’s Stain from Bridge of Sighs http://www.bosband.com
7:16:19 PM: Bridge of Sighs recently returned from Gitmo playing for the troops
7:18:23 PM: Bridge of Sighs is made up of 3 guys who play a sort of indie/blues type of sound
7:20:54 PM: Talking to Tom from http://www.bosband.com
7:24:09 PM: Angry Clouds is BOS’s first Studio Album
7:26:22 PM: BOS Started out as a Robim Trower cover band
7:28:26 PM: BOS went to Gitmo for the first time in 2005, returned in 2006 and is going back this year.
7:34:15 PM: Listening to Tom from BOS talk about his first time in Gitmo
7:34:28 PM: $10K fine for hitting a Iguana in Gitmo
7:34:50 PM: $25k fine for leaving the scene of the Iguana
7:36:54 PM: BOS brought “haters” with them to Gitmo just to change their minds and love the military
7:38:00 PM: There are banana rats on Gitmo, that look like huge racoons
7:41:06 PM: Tom is talking about the beer tolerance of Marines and how is amazed by their ability to drink
7:42:33 PM: Tom got 3 broken ribs from jumping coast guard boats on the waves off of Gitmo
7:44:23 PM: The band joined some army guys for a BBQ
7:45:05 PM: the song Freedom Stain was first developed at the Army BBQ
7:49:00 PM: As Tom says “You can’t support the troops and not support the mission”
7:51:43 PM: tom is talking about hour our military members in Gitmo get abused by the prisoners
7:54:31 PM: If you go to bosband.com and buy a CD via the site will have the proceeds go to fisherhouse.org
8:03:46 PM: Tom and the band are donating all proceeds from sale of CD that are bought on bosband.com to Fisher House thru July 4th
8:07:21 PM: just finished up with Tom Neely from Bridge of Sighs
8:07:48 PM: now playing Angry Clouds, the title track from their first studio album
8:13:03 PM: talking to Rene Bardoff from #tweettoremind
8:13:31 PM: #tweettoremind Check out tweettoremind.org to learn more and donate
8:14:41 PM: #tweettoremind is asking for every person to donate $5.25 between now an memorial day on 5/25/09
8:18:49 PM: http://tweettoremind.org/ is trying to raise money to provide for the gaps of coverage between the DOD and VA and provide for hidden injury
8:20:40 PM: Bob Woodruff Family foundation and Porter Novelli are behind tweet to remind, #tweettoremind
8:22:24 PM: They are looking for people to tweet #tweettoremind on memorial day weekend
8:24:40 PM: Rene husband just got back from his 3rd tour
8:25:44 PM: Her husband was a MITT team member in Iraq
8:28:16 PM: Remind.org has a facebook page
8:30:21 PM: Rene points out that people can simply help out a military member or family in their community
8:30:40 PM: Go to remind.org and contribute or at tweettoremind.org
8:40:13 PM: Talking to Doug Eldridge now from http://www.dlesports.com/
8:40:51 PM: Doug is running 10 marathons in 12 months to raise 100K for wounded warrior project
8:50:23 PM: Doug has no problem suffering for the troops because of the suffering that they go through
8:51:02 PM: Doug was recently interviewed on brobible.com
8:51:15 PM: Doug’s father was a Marine
8:54:10 PM: correction- Doug’s father was in the Army
8:57:45 PM: Doug is an army brat. His dad started out as a Cobra pilot in Vietnam and then was a Armor Officer
9:00:55 PM: We are offline from the live stream, but the show is going on and you can catch it on the podcast
9:04:05 PM: You can follow along with doug’s blog about his marathon fundraising at http://www.10-12-100.blogspot.com
9:04:35 PM: Doug’s webpage for his company is http://www.dlesports.com/
9:17:45 PM: just finished with Doug.The show ran over by 15 min
9:18:47 PM: Great guests on tonight, check out all their websites. http://www.bodband.com, tweettoremind.org/, and http://www.dlesports.com/
9:19:10 PM: Goodnight all, this ends the Live Blogging of the 05/14/09 You Served Radio Show
