Hi All,
On Wed Oct 31st Douglas Harris will be coming home to visit from Walter Reed Hospital. He received serious injuries in Afghanistan while serving and has a long way to go. Please consider coming out to show your support for him and his family. I'm passing along an email I received about the event:
We would like to give him the Hero’s welcome he deserves. Please come out to show your gratitude and thanks to one of our community’s own. He is a Union Mine graduate and well known in the county.
His plane arrives at the Sacramento International Airport on October 31st around 11:00 am. He is being picked up by a Hummer Limo and is expected to pass the Scott Road overpass around 12:15pm give or take. We’d like to line up Fire Trucks, banners, flags and most important PEOPLE on ALL THE OVER PASSES along the way and at the Placerville Drive exit to wave him on and welcome him home. Let’s let him and his family know how much we appreciate him, his service and his sacrifices.
The final stop will be the Veteran’s Hall in Placerville at 130 Placerville Drive right next to the fair grounds. There will be a celebration open to EVERYONE with refreshments served until around 3pm.
One of the organizers of this event is Harland Dains and his phone number is 530-622-0938. If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help at the celebration, please give him a call.
Please pass this on to everyone in the community and to all sources in the media you know. Add this to your face Book Page and Twitter. Let’s get the word out! Thank you very much!!!!
Wounded Warrior Welcome Home
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courtneyhvostal
, Oct 24 2012 05:08 AM
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 06:27 AM
I am a retired Navy Veteran and my wife and I will try to be at the overpass.
Please keep us informed if the time changes.
Please keep us informed if the time changes.
A VETERAN
Whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount "up to and including their life".
That is HONOR, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 06:46 AM
This brave young man is my sister in laws nephew. Please, if you can, come support his return.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 06:56 AM
Great idea!
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Making a Difference in the Life of Abused and Neglected Children in Foster Care
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 06:57 AM
Put on my FB page.
In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 07:50 PM
Posted to Facebook.
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Making a Difference in the Life of Abused and Neglected Children in Foster Care
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Making a Difference in the Life of Abused and Neglected Children in Foster Care
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 08:39 PM
Me too.Posted to Facebook.
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Posted 25 October 2012 - 10:29 AM
Posting on my FB too!
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 10:10 PM
Where should we park?
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Posted 27 October 2012 - 04:31 PM
I would love to participate, but I'll be teaching at that time. God Bless this young man!!!
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:32 PM
Me too.
Welcome home.
I created a facebook event page to remind everyone. Please join and invite your friends too:
http://www.facebook.com/events/list#!/events/411736725558738/
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:37 PM
Where should we park?
There is not really a great place for parking. There is a parking lot off to the left of East Bidwell, I believe its where the In'n'Out is, there is a Starbucks and a hotel there as well. It is just before the overpass. That is the best place I can think of. You can go to any bridge over Hwy 50, so there may be a bridge with parking a bit closer.
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Posted 29 October 2012 - 07:13 PM
Hi All,
On Wed Oct 31st Douglas Harris will be coming home to visit from Walter Reed Hospital. He received serious injuries in Afghanistan while serving and has a long way to go. Please consider coming out to show your support for him and his family. I'm passing along an email I received about the event:
We would like to give him the Hero’s welcome he deserves. Please come out to show your gratitude and thanks to one of our community’s own. He is a Union Mine graduate and well known in the county.
His plane arrives at the Sacramento International Airport on October 31st around 11:00 am. He is being picked up by a Hummer Limo and is expected to pass the Scott Road overpass around 12:15pm give or take. We’d like to line up Fire Trucks, banners, flags and most important PEOPLE on ALL THE OVER PASSES along the way and at the Placerville Drive exit to wave him on and welcome him home. Let’s let him and his family know how much we appreciate him, his service and his sacrifices.
The final stop will be the Veteran’s Hall in Placerville at 130 Placerville Drive right next to the fair grounds. There will be a celebration open to EVERYONE with refreshments served until around 3pm.
One of the organizers of this event is Harland Dains and his phone number is 530-622-0938. If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help at the celebration, please give him a call.
Please pass this on to everyone in the community and to all sources in the media you know. Add this to your face Book Page and Twitter. Let’s get the word out! Thank you very much!!!!
TIME CHANGE!!!!!
Due to the hurricane flights have been delayed... so, his plane will be arriving around 7:10pm, and coming by Scott Rd at around 8:00pm give or take. I hope more people can make it since it is not during normal working hours. See you there! I will post any more changes if they occur. Thanks everyone!
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Posted 29 October 2012 - 09:00 PM
Thank you for the update! the time is way better for me, and now I will actually be able to go.
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Posted 29 October 2012 - 09:06 PM
Already posted on FB, but now I'm linked to the event, and was able to invite others.I created a facebook event page to remind everyone. Please join and invite your friends too:
http://www.facebook.com/events/list#!/events/411736725558738/
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