[Mishmash] Fw: Veteran Thank You

[Carole]

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 say s.

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, 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 aft er 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 receive this !


CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE THE PICTURES: 

  

http://www.managedmusic.com/Music/PlayBeforeYouGo.php


   If that doesn't work, click http://www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html
and keep clicking on "hear the song." 



 
 
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