The Freedom PT was designed and built to say,
"Thank you to all who have fought for our Freedom for you shall live forever in our hearts."
This includes the families of all Veterans and active Service Heroes who have fought and are still fighting to preserve our Freedom as well as all Firemen, Police, and EMT's who fight everyday to keep our streets safe so we can sleep at night.
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Dedicated to the brave men and women,
heroes one and all
who have made our freedom possible.
Freedom PT celebrates the American Spirit,
teamwork, optimism, courage and sacrifice
of the men and women who have fought
and continue to fight
for our freedom.
This is a tribute to the sacrifice and
heroism of those men and women
we will never forget!
Honoring our past to ensure our future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to continue to raise the awareness that 'Freedom Is Not Free' and we all must always be thankful for what our Heroes have done and are continuing to do for us everyday. The sacrifices they and their families are making to preserve our Freedom should never go without notice and we should say 'Thank You' to every Veteran, Soldier, Fireman, Policeman, EMT AND their Families every time we see one.
Have you thanked a veteran
for your FREEDOM today?
Operation
Comfort Warriors
Through Your
American Legion
Please click here
to see all the great things this organization does and make a donation, you will be glad you did. Operation Comfort Warriors is a program dedicated to meeting the needs of wounded military personnel, providing them with comfort items not usually supplied by the government. OCW ensures that patients at U.S. military hospitals and warrior transition units are given items like sweat suits, DVDs, puzzles, electronic devices, books, calling cards and more. OCW also provides larger items such as ping pong tables, entertainment centers, computers, kayaks and other recreational goods for use by wounded warriors in common areas.
Thank you all for your support,
Bill & Debby Doss
September 11, 2011 Fallen Hoosier Heroes Memorial
for Enduring Freedom Remembering Our Fallen Heroes
Deb and I have been working for the past several months with Dave Davis, Chairman of the Fallen Hoosier Heroes Memorial for Enduring Freedom up in Westfield, Indiana - at 401 N Union Street
www.fallenhoosiers.com. This Memorial is one of a kind here in the United States as it is the only one that has Memorialized their Fallen Heroes in the War On Terror. AND it is solely funded on private donations which means we need your help!! Help to maintain this beautiful Memorial and for updating it when the Good Lord calls another one of our Heroes to Heaven.
This last Sunday, 9/11, with the help from our dear friends Marvin & Mary, a lot of volunteers and the board of directors, we held our Annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at Asa Bales Park in Westfield. What a day it was with the 9/11 Hoosier Heroes Memorial Ride at 11am from HH Gregg on 96th St up to the Westfield High School. We had about a hundred bikes and a few cars in the ride which was led by our own Freedom PT Cruiser and escorted by Carmel and Westfield Police as well as one of Westfield's own Fire Truck. And flying overhead to get us started was the Indiana Air Search and Rescue Huey Helicopter!!! What an awesome sight it was...... We started our goose bumps early on this day.
As we arrived in Westfield, we quickly turned our attention to getting the 9/11 Heroes 5k Run/ 1k Family Fun Walk off on the right foot. This is a nationally advertised run supported by the Travis Manion Foundation - it was being run in 35 states. We had about 150 runners and several walkers for this, Indiana's first 9/11 Heroes Run/Walk. We kicked off the run/walk with a Ceremony headlined by Senator Richard Luger speaking about his personal experience back on 9/11 10 years ago as he was in Washington DC. We also had a local singer/song writer Dan Baird sing his 9/11 Tribute song, "The Eagle Still Flies". A great great song!! Look it up on the internet.
After the run we held the awards ceremony and then had the Smiley Glee Club perform until the Annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony started. In the audience we had 50 Gold Star Families of our Fallen Hoosier Heroes and several Blue Star Families and Veterans!! WFMS radio announcer Rod Reel was our MC for the ceremony and what a great job he did.
We opened the Ceremony with our opening prayer, the posting of our Colors, Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of our National Anthem. That again got our goose bumps active.... Then Pam Mow, the Indiana Gold Star Mothers President, gave a heart felt speech as tears started falling from the Heavens. It continued to rain tears from Heaven as Autumn Letendre, a Gold Star Wife spoke and performed one of her beautiful songs. We then had State Senator Mike Delph, a great man and Military Veteran, come up and talk about how Freedom is Not Free. It got us all going!!! And the Westfield Mayor, Mr Cook spoke about how we are different but in times like this, 9/11, we all band together and that is what makes this the greatest Nation on this Earth!!
At this time each of our Board Members rose and we each read aloud the names of all our Fallen Hoosier Heroes as rang a bell in between each name. As we were reading the names the sunshine came out as bright as we had seen throughout the day as to warm and mend our aching hearts!!! This was followed by the playing of Amazing Grace by 2 of our Indianapolis 500 Gordon Pipers - WOW!!! This was followed by the posting of our Colors, a 21 Gun Salute and the playing of Taps - we had 2 trumpet players to do an Echo Taps.....
Our last speaker was Dave Davis, the Chairman of the Memorial. He spoke about the history of this great Memorial. It was started by his step Father after the War on Terror started. He hand built every White Cross and mounted each of them in Indiana stone and placed them at the Memorial. Each Cross bears the name of a Fallen Hoosier Hero. At present there are 183 White Crosses and we already need to add another from this last week.... Dave's step father, an Army Veteran, passed away from disabilities he got from contacting agent orange while fighting the Vietnam War and since then Dave and his wife Shelley have vowed to keep the Fallen Hoosier Heroes Memorial for Enduring Freedom going.
We then handed out some special gifts to our speakers and the Gold Star Mothers presented Dave, his wife Shelley and his Mother Carol special mementos to say thank you for keeping their sons and daughters memories alive so that we may never forget!!
Something else to add to the story about the Davis family and the Memorial: Dave is also an Army Veteran (as is his Son Matt) and after he got out of the service, he applied for a Hoosier Veteran license plate...... the number on that plate was 911. So, as you can see, it is his destiny to be the Chairman of this Great Memorial so that we may keep it going for all to come and see and say Thank You to our Fallen Hoosier Heroes and their Families. We owe it to the Families of our Fallen to come by and support them for all they have given to preserve our Freedoms!!!!!!
It was an awesome day to be able to say Thank You to so many who have given so much while protecting our Freedom!! We are speechless!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks,
Bill & Debby Doss
Have you thanked a veteran
for your FREEDOM today?
