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May 19, 2008
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Patti Patton-Bader
Thankfully, a little bit of the great General George Patton lives on. His great-niece Patti Patton-Bader was just named "America's Favorite Mom" for her work with Soldiers' Angels, a mission devoted to the motto, "May No Soldier Go Unloved."
Here's what the group is about:
We are a continually-evolving, grassroots organization comprised of nearly 200,000 volunteers in over twenty different teams and programs who have developed unique and effective ways to support members of the U.S. military. To date, our volunteers have sent tens of thousands of care packages and hundreds of thousands of letters to deployed service members; we have supplied the wounded with our First Response Packs directly at the Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan and the major military hospital in Germany, as well as provided care and comfort to those in stateside military and VA facilities; we have provided emergency aid to military families in need; we have partnered with the Department of Defense to provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptops to over 2,600 severely-wounded servicemembers; we have provided flights to soldiers on leave or in emergency situations, and to their families wanting to be with them upon return from overseas; we have provided Level III KEVLAR armored blankets to give personnel extra protection in their vehicles when it was needed; we help to honor and uphold the families whose loved ones have paid the ultimate price for our freedom and safety. With the assistance of our generous supporters, the many volunteers of Soldiers' Angels have accomplished this and much, much more on behalf of the grateful citizens of the United States of America.
John Kerry and Stephen King may get more press. But in the end, it's folks like Patti Patton-Baden who count.
On a tip from hiram13pm.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 19, 2008 6:45 AM
Comments
This woman is what I think of with pride when I think America! She truly is a Great American.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at May 19, 2008 7:36 AM
May God continue to bless Patti and may the American Soldier continue to keep her safe.
Posted by: Mockinbird at May 19, 2008 8:52 AM
Awesome work, Patti. I think this is the only time I will not hold it against someone for having a hyphenated last name (usually a sign of militant feminism). If my grand-uncle was the iron-willed General George Patton, I wouldn't want my daughter to loose the label after marrying, either. That's a name to be proud of.
Posted by: Eoin at May 19, 2008 11:46 AM
I adopted a soldier, and I heartily recommend it to all of you. Mine is stationed at Bagram; that's all I'm allowed to say. It's not much, by our standards (hell, the letter-writing team only costs paper and postage to an APO), but it's the world to those boys who hear nothing but moonbat defeatist bullshit at every turn, even when we're winning. I write 2 letters a week, they don't have to be long... the point is that your soldier doesn't get nothing at mail-call... and send a care package once a month (10.95 flat rate, as much stuff as you can stuff in it). The morale boost is indescribable. In Billy Joel's 'Goodnight Saigon', there's a lyric where he starts a verse...
"We had no home front..."
Well, by God, my adopted trooper has a home front. I'd take on more if I could. So, is "I Support the Troops" just a bumpersticker or what?
It doesn't take much to be an Angel.
Posted by: hiram13pm at May 19, 2008 7:51 PM
God bless this woman. Her daddy would be proud!
If you do not have a pocket copy of the book Patton’s Principles, you are missing out. It was complied by his son.
Posted by: Oiao at May 19, 2008 10:37 PM
