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 Although not financially oriented, this posting was suggested by one of our customers. We post this as a thank you to all veterans. Read this and then click the link below 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. Cut to today. 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 encourages 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. "The WW II soldiers 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 http://www.beforeyougo.us, 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. GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran... and THANK you to those of you veterans who may read this ! CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE THE PICTURES: Click here: Dr. Sam & The Managed Care Blues Band
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I think it might be time to update the Sr. blog. 3 months between postings is a tad long, half of your readership has probably died off since then.
You should also date stamp all of your posts so that viewers can go back historically and appreciate the context they were written in, rather then making us think that you just posted today and are celebrating Veterans day late. Also, what's the deal with only targeting seniors with your blog. Wrong demographic if you think this is going to propel you into the technorati 100. If you check out the demographics almost no seniors read the blogosphere (baby boomers do though) If anything the blog would be more useful in spreading your story to new investors and passionate customers, then to try and use it to bring new senior citizens to the bank. I'm not suggesting that you don't try and target Seniors, they are after all a nice juicy demographic but how about removing the word Sr. at least so that you can use the blog to excite all of your customers and not just the ones missing teeth. One thing that I will warn you about is that the blogosphere has very little tolerence for corporate run blogs. I think that your company should be involved in the blogosphere, but if you're going to do this halfway, don't be surprised when the blogosphere comes after you for offering such a lame blog and not following through with good content. Comment Moderation alone is enough to get you put on the consumerist or digg. Believe me it's much better to hear air these critisms in the comments section of your blog, then it is for someone to go public with complaints to a signicantly larger audience. At least in the comments, you can defend yourself publically instead of people only getting to read one side of the conversation on someone elses higher trafficked blog. We've skewered corporate blogs in the past for a lot less and if you're not going to at least maintain this property, then you should shut it down before someone really makes you look foolish.
Wonderful, Thanks. Meant alot to hear and see it.God bless men like yourselves.
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