Join Us Monday for a Special You Served Blog Talk Radio Show
Join me Monday, Memorial Day (observed), at 1:00pm EST, for a special You Served Blog Talk Radio show.
Bob Parks, a Navy Veteran, owner of the website Black & Right.com, an “African American leader” according to the Washington Times, conservative activist, and co-founder of New Media Alliance Television will join us Monday to talk about Memorial Day, what it means to him and any how we can observe it respectfully.
Also joining me on the show is Jim Spiri. Jim and his wife of 35-years, Candi, are both Gold and Blue star parents. The Spiri’s lost their beloved son, 2nd Lieutenant Jesse James Spiri to a brain tumor. Lt. Spiri served in the USMC.
A battle with Tri-Care followed the death of their son that led them to Congress and the passing of the “2nd Lt. Jesse James Spiri Military Medical Coverage Act of 2004″ signed by former President George W. Bush, on November 25, 2003.
The Spiri’s youngest son joined the Army in 2000 and is currently serving in his 5th deployment. He is an Army Aviator flying CH47 helicopters. Jim and Candi have joined their son in Iraq on several occasions filling various jobs and roles. Jim traveled with the USMC Infantry and US Army Infantry as a combat photographer during the Surge.
Jim will join us and talk about the trips he has been on to Iraq, his love for America’s sons and daughters who are in harms way in that war zone, and what he is doing to try and go back again.
I also have a few Memorial Day write ups submitted by listeners and readers that I will read off at the end of the show.
It’s sure to be a great show! Please join us if you can. I will have the chat room open right before the show. I hope to see you there!
CJ
May 25th, 2009 at 10:37 pmI really need to come back here more often to read stuff. I completely missed this!!! I would have tuned in for sure! But, I’ll be listening to it tomorrow.
Claire
May 28th, 2009 at 9:02 pmI hope you got a chance to listen to it. I am no where near as good as you and Troy — I am not even on the novice end of this stuff yet. I enjoy listening to you two do your shows so that maybe one day I can make it sound that easy.
Bob Parks is a wonderful man, and if he ever decides to run for President I think I will drop what I am doing and campaign for him like there’s no tomorrow. Also, Jim Spiri is a wonderful father and American. I know he really loves the troops deeply.