Helping our Hero's

[Gazac]

I have been thinking for a while now that maybe it could be possible to make a fund raiser possibly by means of music to help our hero’s to get the gear and equipment that they need to have a safer chance in Afghanistan.

As an ex serving soldier myself, thankfully, I have never had the chance or the opportunity to go out to Iraq or Afghanistan, so thankfully I do not have the memories of the sights that our soldiers seen or have the nightmares that they suffer from. But, I do have friends that are out there and I am constantly watching the news and my biggest fear is one of them being mentioned as killed in action, also I have a friend at the moment who is in Selybridge hospital in Birmingham that was blown up by an I.E.D (Improved Explosive Device) at the road side in Helmand Province, His Name is Pete McCombe, he has lost the vision in one eye and is fighting to save his other as well as having masses of shrapnel removed from his head. Unfortunately you never hear of this on the news only the soldiers that are killed in action so no one really knows of the full extent that our soldiers go through, never mind their families suffering too.

It was a post that a friend of mine put on his Facebook profile that made me think even more about this and I think now it is even more paramount than ever to make sure that we, as a nation can help our soldier more and more to reduce the casualties and hopefully the pain that our soldiers and their families endure.

I Think it is fantastic how our nation has come together to help the Haiti appeal and it set me wondering about doing the same for our Soldiers.

I am writing this as I have no clue or idea on how this could possibly be set up as I would love to see a song made and put on to cd or download and all proceeds going to buying equipment for our soldiers to make it safer as they are under geared as it is and I would imagine that every little, no matter how minor it is, would help. Also it would be good if the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc etc could make a documentary of this being made from start to finish to actually make people aware that there are more injured soldiers coming home everyday that they do not know about as it is mainly the deaths that are aired on tv.

Thank you in your time on reading this :D:D:D

[Susie]

thank you Gazac for your post. :)

I understand so much how you feel. The Sun newspaper had a support for hero's campaign didn't they, it may be a good idea to get in touch with the newspaper itself to see if there is something that you can become involved in or get ideas from.

I do know there was a documentary on the TV recently about the injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan called Wounded by the BBC..I watched it with tears and pride, and thought about it for a long time afterwards.

[Jackie]

good luck with your idea Gazac.

[stephencolliermusic]

Hello my name is Stephen Collier I am a 21 year old singer/songwriter and guitarest.

I have recently just wrote a song called 'Hero In The Heart' a tribute to all our brave troops who I believe are the true heroes of the world - I wrote it in support of the charity Help For Heroes which I know Robbie is a huge supporter of please view my video over on youtube at http://youtu.be/C57sdlWvBYM

Please view it and if you are a member please like it and comment

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this

Kind Regards

Stephen