Before You Go

WOW! This really touched my heart and needed to share this with everyone. Please take a moment to listen to the song. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: Fw: Fw: Before You Go This is worth opening. This needs to be passed around the world. Forward it on ..... Before you go You may have heard this song before, but it is very gripping. We all go about our daily lives, rarely thinking about how blessed we are to be free and to live in the USA. We owe a debt we can never repay. Please read the text first and then use the link at the bottom of this email. It's a very well done presentation. Make sure your speakers are on.... The Inspiration for "Before You Go" The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood. Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla., eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event. He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he ! said bitterly. At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you." Then the old soldier > began to cry. "That really got to me," Bierstock says. Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It enco! urages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die. "If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "Every ethnic minority would be dead. And the old vets are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them." The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web, the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren. "It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan ! and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them." Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it. Please add the www. beforeyougo.us/ >

Thank you Letty! That was so neat! My husband and I make it a point to thank our Vets. We especially thank the Vietnam Vets because they were treated so bad. They usually cry and say that they don't get thanked very often. It's amazing what we take for granted. So bless you Letty for this reminder! I love you! God Bless, Lynda Phil. 4:8

Wow, Letty. Beautiful words. Beautiful song. Thank you. Love, Peg