Before You Go

[390 Mach I]

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The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood!

After retrieving his car from the parking lot, he handed his parking ticket to the elderly man in the collection booth. Retrieving his change, Dr. Sam wished the attendant a good evening. He was somewhat startled when he received an unexpected angry and resentful reply. "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 says.

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 after 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 !

The story behind the song:

http://www.beforeyougo.us/the_story_..._before_you_go

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


http://www.beforeyougo.us/play_byg

[doc h fmf]

That Was Awsome Mach Brought Tears To My Eyes

Godbless You

[390 Mach I]

That Was Awsome Mach Brought Tears To My Eyes

Godbless You

Thanks doc h fmf.
Saddens me that out of 111 views(so far) only "you" responded.
Almost as much as this video, and the fact that so many forget "those that went before"...

Thank you for that singular response.
At least I know that this touched 2 of us.

/Salute

[ecfree]

Thank you DAVID,
A great video of memories we should keep.....
SEMPER FI MY BROTHER......
ED.....