"This is a great song by former Army Ranger and Musician Jerod (JT)
Thompson. Jerod takes to the road with his guitar strapped and roams the
highways playing at clubs, barns, open fields and bonfires from
California to Florida and everywhere in between. More more information
on his music and when and where he will play next check him out at Reverbnation JT Thompson or visit his Facebook page:
Facebook JT Thompson -- Video clips
are from D. Co. 2/135 Infantry 34th Infantry Division of the Minnesota
Army National guard on their deployment to Farah Afghanistan in
2004/2005. These troops were the first American troops into Farah City and
relied heavily on their relationship with the local residents. When
they first entered the city in August of 2004 the first 20 soldiers
lived in a simple Afghan house in the middle of the city. The experience
later served as the basis for the bestselling book "Words in the Dust"
by Trent Reedy. Trent was among these first 20 Americans into Farah
City."
It's that time! We are now four years old and still kickin some rock n roll ass!
That's something that's not going to change. We thank each and every one of you, our listeners, for all your contributions and support throughout the last four years, and we look forward to many more years with all y'all! We will continue to offer you the absolute most kick ass rock on the net today, from old school rock all the way up to what was just released yesterday.
As always, y'all feel free to add our DJs to your instant messengers (our addresses are on our schedule page, just scroll down the page a bit), and hit us up with your requests and feedback.
Now we have some new things for you too!
We have added a new contact on our Friends and Partners page, Homes For Our Troops. Please go check them out, it's a superlative organization, and we feel they deserve our utmost support.
We also want to address something that a few people have mentioned to us. With all the political rhetoric going on these days, people seem to be under the impression that, well, to put it bluntly, that supporting our military personnel is "over". We hear things like "well they're all coming home now", or "the war is pretty much over over there". As many of you who have relatives in the service know, it's very much not over, and our family members and friends are still deployed, and very often in harm's way. We in the U.S. have troops deployed all over the world. Many other countries do also, and we support them and their families just as firmly. We are, however, expanding our thoughts and services to our now returning military people also, which is why over the last year or so we have begun putting up links to organizations such as Homes For Our Troops, Pets For Vets, and Make The Connection.
Our returning military often come back to us feeling out of place, disconnected, traumatized and distressed. In this very rough economy, they come home to no jobs, and sometimes no places to even call home. A great many people have suffered severe financial distress over the last several years, and this is affecting our returning troops also. These people have done so much, sacrificed so much, and in some cases given their very lives for what we here at home safely have. We now wish to bring all this to your attention, so that you can join us if you wish in making their transitions home more successful. We want to be part of helping, and we think you may too. With this in our hearts and minds, we now open our fall/Christmas donation drive.
Rest assured that every dollar you may donate will go to our troops, either our deployed or our returning troops, in the form of care packages or whatever they may need. Just hit our main site page (Bich1Radio) and slap that little donation button you'll find on the right side of the page. We will continue to do what we can, where we can, and when we can, and we hope that y'all will also keep this in your hearts and help us help them!
Thanks once again for all y'all do for us and with us.. Let's keep rockin!!!
Hey Guys..
Thank You to all who viewed and commented on Camo Underwear on YouTube. We're glad you enjoyed it!
UPDATE!!!
Pets for Vets is a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant Recipient
Thanks
to all of you who voted online, on Facebook and by text. Pets for Vets
finished in the top 10 in December. We couldn't have done it without
you!
Pets for Vets has received the first half of the grant and will use it to expand the program to other areas. Thanks for all of your support!
With Memorial Day 2012 coming up May 28th, we have posted up two new video tributes on our main station site, on our "tribute to the troops" page, including a Memorial Day tribute. But we're going to warn you too..
the Memorial Day tribute is very powerful, and unless you're completely inhuman, will likely require several tissues.
We have some new additions we'd like you to check out, and one we'd like to remind you of.
Let's do the reminder first...
This site offers tons of great merchandise, plus one thing we reaaaaaally really want you to do!
Once you hit that link, at the top in the middle you'll see a blue box that says "Click here to give - it's FREE".
By clicking that link, you will help so many vets with free meals! There are way too many homeless and hungry vets out there, and this is such an easy way to help...so please please.. add it to your daily routine, and click often!, It's totally free to you (their sponsors take care of the funding..yay!). When you click, they display ads from their site sponsors. 100% of the money from these advertisers goes to their charity partners, who fund programs to provide meals for homeless and hungry U.S. veterans.Their store gives a portion of every purchase to their charity partners too. Please tell your friends too!!
Here's the newer one we'd like you to know about and take some action on if you're moved to do so, (and we hope you are!).
Our mission is to fly WWII veterans and terminally
ill veterans from other wars to see their memorials in Washington, DC. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
As the last of the Greatest Generation approach their final curtain
call, we are witnesses to a tremendous loss as we embrace a precious
opportunity. One WWII veteran passes away every 90 seconds. They take
their stories and history and enormous bravery with them. But many are
among us still. There is no earthly way we can approach a gift that
reflects our depth of gratitude. But we thank them anyway. With YOUR
HELP we thank them.
Please… Help Honor Flight FLY.
We thank you for your support, both of us and the station, we're glad you're enjoying the tunes, and remember ... keep rockin!!
We're going to leave you with a celebration video, the 235th Birthday party held at the Palm Springs USO for the United States Marines. Enjoy!!
We are starting our fall fundraiser for our troops! We are raising money now for our Christmas care packages. Christmas is right around the corner, and it takes quite awhile to get to our troops overseas, so let's get started!
We need donations to provide our troops with items such as personal care products, phone cards, gift cards so they can purchase items from the local PX, batteries, SNACKS!!! They need some holiday candies and hot chocolate over there! We will also have a link on here for http://www.letssaythanks.com/ , sponsored by Xerox. Here, you can send postcards to the troops for FREE...the cards are adorable, all drawn by children. You can choose to use one of the pre-printed messages or personalize your card. There is another free site where you can help fund meals for veterans with just a click. IT'S FREE...you click, you feed a homeless vet. What could be easier? The link is http://www.theveteranssite.com/ . So, let's start early with the cards, and get to clickin to feed the homeless veterans! A little goes a long ways...we all know the economy sucks and there isn't much extra to go around. Give what you can, or do the free stuff! Let's all get in on this together and show those far from home a little love and appreciation!
We are pleased and proud to announce the start of our yearly drive to provide our deployed troops with phone cards so they can call their loved ones during the Holiday Season. You'll be hearing our DJ's talk about this on their Talk Spots, and any help you can provide will surely be appreciated. We already have several people working to get kids drawing and writing Christmas/Holiday cards for our troops, and into each we'd love to put a phone card from you all. We can't tell you how many times we've been told how much it means to just have a tiny little taste of home, from the personal hand of someone who's taken the time to show their love, thoughts and appreciation. The men and women who serve don't care if it's drawn perfectly, or if the colors match, or even that they have no clue who the child or person signing the card is... only that it's contact with home, with people who have not forgotten them, and send their love and thoughts at this special, and for many, very hard time of year. So let's get on it and see what we can do to lighten the Season for these wonderful people who are not at their own homes this year.... let's send them the sound of their children, their wives or husbands, mothers or fathers... let's send them that little bit of home that is so meaningful to them while they are over there standing watch for US. contact one of our dj's for how to donate...or just hit that donate button on the main bich1radio page.... thanks for your help and generosity!!! we love ya, and rock ON!
we're putting up this post to let you all know something we're very excited about, and we need your help. this one is easy tho, and won't cost you a thing.
we have recently met and added to our group of friends an organization called Pets For Vets.
below you'll find their website addy and some information about who they are and what they do, and how it joins with us helping our troops. Right now, there's a push on tho, and we need your help on it. This is a time sensitive thing guys, so please read and help us help them out by casting your votes! It all counts..more than you know!
Please Vote Pets for Vets for $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant in October
October 1st:
Unfortunately Pets for Vets was not one of the $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Challenge winners. However, thanks to our many friends and supporters nationwide Pets for Vets decided to re-enter the contest for a $50,000 grant. We need to be in the top 10 to win! Every vote counts.
To help us win $50,000 please log on to http://www.refresheverything.com/petsforveterans, sign in (you cannot vote unless you sign-in) and vote for Pets for Vets. Remember to check the vote counter at the bottom of the page to be sure your vote registered, it should change from 10 to 9. The "Pepsi beverage" sound doesn't mean you have voted. We hope you will support our bid for the top prize by voting every day through October 31st.
Pets for Vets, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a second chance for shelter pets by rescuing, training and pairing them with America’s veterans who could benefit from having a companion animal.
Pets for Vets is rebuilding the lives of U.S servicemen and women through the unconditional love of a rescued pet. Many of our veterans suffer from physical and emotional injuries making it difficult to transition back to civilian life. Pets for Vets believes that companion animals can be a life saving therapy or friend that many returning servicemen and women need. Your support helps us match a rescued companion dog or pet with an American veteran who would benefit from having a companion. In accomplishing this mission we do not want to create an additional burden on the veteran; with each match we provide all of the necessary equipment for them to start their new life together. In addition, the pet will be healthy and up to date on all vaccinations. A $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant will help us to ensure that they have everything they need. To find out more about Pets for Vets please visit http://www.pets-for-vets.com
Spread the word on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and other social networking tools, email all of your friends. You can also use your Facebook account to vote.
Thank you for your support over the last few months and your continued support this month.
