The Special Operations Warrior Foundation

Here is a link I've been meaning to place on the sidebar for sometime and just never got around ot it. Its The Special Operations Warrior Foundation and they provided funding and support to the children of our fallen special operators.

What does your donation help do, well here is a classic example:

Foundation Recipient Earns Pilot License, Flying Army Helicopters

Derrick Rodriguez is literally in the clouds after graduating from OH-58D Flight Course at the Army's Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he learned to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopter. But being in the clouds is not what excites this 26-year old.

Rodriguez was just 10 years old when his family got the tragic news that his father was killed, along with six other soldiers, when their medevac helicopter crashed in Iraq while deployed for Desert Storm. The 1991 death of Master Sgt. Eloy Rodriguez, Jr., a Special Forces medic assigned to the Special Forces Command, rocked the entire family.

"Losing my father meant I had to grow up overnight," said Rodriguez, "and life had to be taken seriously. But I also took everything my father taught me and I worked hard to be the best at everything I did. I also knew that there were people in worse situations then me."

As they have done for the past 26 years, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation put Rodriguez through college. The Warrior Foundation provides college scholarship grants, not loans, to the surviving children of special operations personnel killed in combat or training. The grants are provided cover tuition, books, fees, room and board.

So how can you support the families and children of our special operators? You can donate to the foundation, purchase gear and clothing, and help spread the word about the foundation. Blackfive is already helping spread the word, infact it was at his site that I first found out about the foundation.

So please stop on by their site, look around, and read the testimonials. If you've done that and still feel as if making a donation is not your cup of tea nothing more will be said about it. But if you do make a donation and sign up for the newsletters, you will be rewarded with the knowledge that you are making the difference in the lives of the familes left behind.