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Another New Author – ProudMom3
Ladies and Gentlemen – it is a great honour to introduce another new author – ProudMom3! She has – big surprise- 3 children. One is presently serving as a Marine and was here in DC at the Marine Barracks – marched in many ceremonial events and is now awaiting orders for either an IA or MEU – Mom is waiting (sounds familiar!) Her daughter was an Army MP – during 9/11, and we are looking forward to her input on how that felt. Her third child is a civilian and about to become a dad. PM3 has 2 grandchildren already. She lives in the desert Southwest, who just built a house and is busy moving in and decorating.
We are proud to have her on board – please welcome our Marine/Army mom!
LAW
Thanks for coming back to visit! If you would like to write for Parents Zone - please let LAW or TechMama know!
A new author – One Army Mama Bear
Ladies and Gentlemen of ParentsZone – it’s my great pleasure to introduce a new author to our site – One Army Mama Bear (we’ll call her 1AMama Bear for short) 1AMama Bear is the mother of 4 (3 boys, 1 girl), grandma of 2. Her grandson was born in May and is 9 months old, crawling and getting into everything. His cousin came from China in the same month, as a wonderful 9 month old – and 1AMama Bear is taking a year leave of absence from her job as a media assistant in a public high school to be nannie and indulgent nanna!
Her youngest son – let’s call him Max- joined the Army in September 2006, and got married right out of Basic. They are stationed at Ft. Hood, and Max is deployed right now. According to 1AMama Bear.
“This is our first deployment … it is what I expected and it isn’t what I expected. I joined a Military Family Support Group nearby so that I could support Max and his wife - had no idea how much that group was going to support ME. Maxine has been wonderful sharing information with me. This would be much harder if things were different. I’ve encouraged Max to use his limited telephone time to stay in touch with his wife. Of course we want phone calls, but MORE I want his marriage to survive and not just survive – I want it to THRIVE.
I never liked the in-law thing … so I call my girls, my daughters-in-love because they came to our family through love rather than birth. It’s how I feel about all three of them. My daughter is blessed now to have three sisters in addition to her three brothers.”
Please join me in welcoming One Army Mama Bear to the PZ family. Her first column will be on tomorrow.
LAW
What a week – and the Future Plans
As you have (hopefully) been reading, it’s been a week to remember. PZ was honoured to be a conduit for the news of Spc Hunter Levine, and he has been getting a lot of love, a lot of “stuff” and it has also spilled over from him to the others in the hospital, with a visit from Gary Sinise (link takes you to HH6’s report of the visit) and also the beginning of a new service members related “list” – called HASMO which is a FREE service trying to connect service members with a need, to all those people out here who want to fill it. Again, this is Free – no charge to anyone signing up either to give or to request. We’ll have a link to HASMO on this page soon.
ParentsZone will now return to our regular programming – with a few differences! We have a new mom ready to post, and as you have seen on the side (left side) we are slowly doing some more construction here. When the dust settles, we hope to have a site that is useful, handy and what YOU the families need.
In that vein – we’d like to ask for your help in the construction. If you have a site that has helped you cope, that answered a questions, filled a need or just helped you figure out how to negotiate this life as a military mom, dad, brother, sister… we’d like to know about it. ONE CAVEAT – it has to be free. No “registration” fees, no “administration” fees. If it’s political/religious/sponsored – we’ll link to it, but remember, we don’t endorse anything. We just provide the link. So please, if you have such a site, and don’t want to comment on this site, just email LAW at parentszone at gmail.com.
As the signs say “pardon our dust while we make it better for you”. We’ll keep adding new posts while we build – so you can ignore the dust!
LAW
Update on PFC Levine – 10/24
It’s been an intense, crazy-busy couple of days around here but in a good way! We are so proud of our readers for jumping into action when it counted! Your cards, letters of encouragement,etc are definitely doing the trick and lifting Hunter’s spirits.!
We are extra proud of our PZ Tech Mama – Tammy for jumping in and helping out the point of contact for this endeavor! She responded to all the emails and phone calls to make sure that Hunter got letters of encourgment, cards,etc. and that the right information was being sent out! Tammy will continue to be working on this directly with Hunter, his Foundation, Hearts for Hunter as well as Blake Meaux, long time freind of Hunter and foundation executor. So, check out her blog for more information about that.
The biggest HAT TIP goes to 1SG Brian Disque! Brian made sure that one of his soldiers got the help and support that he needed by letting the blogosphere know about Hunter. Brian certainly is a shining example of what a 1SG should be!
I AM A FIRST SERGEANT
My job is people — Every One is My Business.
I dedicate my time and energy to their needs;
their health, morale, discipline, and welfare.
I grow in strength by strengthening my people.
My job is done in faith; my people build faith.
My job is people –EVERY ONE IS MY BUSINESS.- US Army First Sergeant (1SG) Creed
We also want to acknowledge the sites that first posted about Hunter : The Veterans Voice & Email Our Military for first publishing 1SG Levine’s story.
Kudos to Matt at BlackFive, Milblogs, Michelle Malkin, Some Soldiers Mom, Liberal Army Wife, Army Household6, Mark Levinfan.com, Calistalee , Jihad Gene, NiceDoggie.net, and Greyhawk and many many more! Also a big thank you to everyone who emailed others to let them know about it! You guys picked up Hunter’s story as ran with it! We’re so proud to be part of this awesome blogging community!
Hunter’s friend Blake are working on the details for Hunter’s Foundation, Hearts for Hunter. The website currently is under construction but will be up & ready to go by Monday October 27th.
Also, Tammy recently started a list called HASMO (Help a Service Member Out). It is an email list comprised of Rapid Response Team Members to be able to help out soldiers like Hunter and many others. It will also be available to help out service member’s immediate families as well. You can sign up for it on Tammy’s site and its a free service!
So, thanks again and now back to our regular programming.. 
Update on PFC Hunter Levine
Well I just wanted to take a minute and thank everyone who emailed/commented over the last 24 hours about PFC Levine. If I haven’t responded to you yet.. don’t worry I will tonight/tomorrow. There has been an outpouring of support so we are trying to filter it all and get Hunter what he needs. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at tammy.munson@gmail.com.
I am currently working with the executor of Hunter’s foundation to get a list of what Hunter may need and to setup a fundraiser for him.
Also we’re working on setting up a email list of rapid responders when we hear of things like this if you’d like to be included, please sign up at http://www.armyhousehold6.com (left side of page)
To read Hunter’s story click here
I received this email from Julie with BlueStarMoms who visited with Hunter on Saturday .. so I wanted to pass it along..
Well, we already went today and just got back actually but we wouldn’t mind going again. When I say we, I took my daughter-in-law and granddaughters too. One of the staff did go in ahead and asked Hunter if he minded us coming in. That was Hunters request to be notified ahead of time.
I figured that if he did not want visitors today that we would just leave what we had brought for him there for him to have and I understood his request. He let us come in because I told the nurse about my son serving in Iraq. That seemed to make Hunter feel better.
We just stopped in for a minute and took a card, a box of See’s lollipops, some other candy and a small fimo clay frog wind chime. (FROG=Freely Rely On God) That made him sorta laugh, the wind chime. He said he didn’t know where to put it so we suggested over the a/c unit or hang it on the window that way he could know if the a/c was working or not.
I figured that he could use the practice in getting his other senses a little sharper while his eyesight was getting some work. The room was pretty warm though, and there was a soldier visiting him as well so I didn’t want to take up too much of his time. I will call Stephanie later this week and see if he wouldn’t mind having us visit again, without the girls though. I would love to have you come with or meet me there. I have a map now and it is pretty easy to get to.
He has a DVD player and an i-pod and told me he has all the music he needs, he is still pretty angry inside. I know that later in life he will look back and think about us going there, it will be just a random thought but I hope it will be a good one.
Also, my granddaughters class is going to make a mobile for his room, that should help him with some eye coordination exercises without him knowing that he is actually doing them.
I did see that he had the DVD Gladiator (great movie!) so he has some vision. He also had a watch on with a magnifier on it. Also, the lollipops will help with the muscles in his neck which will in turn help with the face restructuring.
In fact, I am thinking that getting some crossword puzzle books and other items like that as well as some cards for other soldiers who are there would be worthwhile. There were a couple who had no visitors and looked like they could use someone to visit with.
Thanks,
Household6
In Case You Missed It : Spouse Buzz Radio
As promised, here is the audio player for the interview we did on SpouseBuzz Radio with Ruthie (airforcewife) . Click the little white arrow to hear the audio.
If you have any problems, you can also listen to the audio by clicking this link:
http://blogtalk.vo.llnwd.net/o23/shows/show_291372.mp3
Spouse Buzz Radio
Tonight LAW, SomeSoldiersMom and I will be the special guests on Spouse Buzz Radio! Wow All of us on 1 show!! Pretty cool huh?
Turn in to the show LIVE at 9pm ET (either you can call in to listen or listen via the web)
You can call in(646) 478-5665 or here is the direct link –>http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spousebuzz/2008/10/10/Parents-Zone
Once the show is done, I’ll be putting up the audio player so that everyone can listen, if you happen to miss to live airing.
“See” ya tonight !
PZ TechMama
Off to Vegas.
I am off to Vegas to represent ParentsZone at Milblog Expo. I’ll be taking the results of the survey with me, to share with all.
I’ll be online Saturday, to report to you!
LAW
Holy Cow! We are up for a MilBloggie Award!
Go here – vote for us! I’m incredibly surprised, and very honoured that we were chosen. Voting closes on Sunday night!
LAW
We need your help!
After some brainstorming this past weekend in Virginia Beach, LAW and I put together a few questions to help get a better idea of what YOU want to see and read about. We came up with with 5 questions. It will be a blog series of what other parents & family members want to know, their experiences, etc.
Of course, being the techmama that I am… I put together an online survey for all of you to take. It’s actually 10 questions and should only take about 5 minutes to complete.
Will you help us out?? click here to complete the online survey.
As always, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us parentszone@gmail.com
PZ TechMama
