As some of you may know, I have the pleasure of traveling around the world to military bases with my business partner, and star, Trevor Romain. I have been called everything from business manager, to sidekick, to assistant, and Hey You. But it really doesn’t matter because getting the opportunity to be a part of supporting these wonderful military kids is a real honor.
But today was a little bit different. And it was certainly a different kind of honor…
Last week we were at Ft Campbell on the Tennessee, Kentucky border. Ft Campbell is the home of the 101st Airborne, The Screaming Eagles. Sergeant Odle from the public affairs office was showing us around the base. We went into the officers building, which housed the wall of fame, honoring all of the brave men and women who died while deploying from Ft Campbell. As I was looking at the wall, I started thing about my wife Ronda. Her dad died in Vietnam in 1969. I texted her to ask what month he died because the order on the wall was by month of the year, not alphabetically. Ronda said October, so I kept looking and finally found it. It gave me chills and great pride. And I knew Ronda was crying with pride on the other end of the phone. Her organization, The Comfort Crew for Military Kids, is her way of keeping her dad alive by supporting hundreds of thousands of military kids. You are only truly dead if you are forgotten. And Rocky was not forgotten.
-Woody Englander
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