2005: Kitchener / London / Hamilton | 2006: Toronto 1&2 | 2010: Hartford | 2011: Toronto 1&2 / Hamilton
2013: London, Brooklyn 1&2 | 2014: Detroit | 2015: New York | 2016: Ottawa / Toronto 1 / Wrigley 1
LOL, they are actually called Caramel Delights here in NJ because Samoas are not PC...I guess when we talk about Cuban Cigars, we can no longer call them Cubans?
Not at all Emjot!! You got a few min LOL
Please send your donation entries and User Name via Paypal (as a friend's payment if it allows in US currency) to:
OperationYellowRibbonSJ@gmail.com
Good luck!
Not at all Emjot!! You got a few min LOL
Please send your donation entries and User Name via Paypal (as a friend's payment if it allows in US currency) to:
OperationYellowRibbonSJ@gmail.com
Good luck!
Great! So if I send let's say $10 that means 10 entries?
PJ * 2010 * Belfast * 2012 * Manchester 1 * Manchester 2 * Berlin 1 * Berlin 2 * 2014 * Amsterdam 1 * Amsterdam 2 * Berlin * Leeds * Milton Keynes * EV * 2012 * Manchester * London 1 * London 2 * 2017 * Dublin * Cork *
Not at all Emjot!! You got a few min LOL
Please send your donation entries and User Name via Paypal (as a friend's payment if it allows in US currency) to:
OperationYellowRibbonSJ@gmail.com
Good luck!
Great! So if I send let's say $10 that means 10 entries?
1/25/15 Update:
There's nothing I can say to express my amazement and gratitude to all the help here whether thru donation entries, donated prizes, bumps and everything in between. This has been amazing.
Your help, you have all helped raise (before expenses are incurred for shipping etc): $2168. This is an amazing amount. Truly. THANK YOU EVERYONE for their help and assistance.
OYR is spending between $4000-$5000 each month on shipping expenses and purchasing care package items so this truly is of HUGE help!
With that said, the moment you have been waiting over a month for....the raffle results. With the grand prize selection where she can pick any prize from the list, our grand prize winner is: forum user "countonbothhands"
I will continue to draw winners and be in touch once it is your turn to pick from what's left of the prizes. Lots of prizes available so if you don't hear from me right away, it doesn't mean it's over and all is lost. It may take me a few days to notify you based on the winner before you replying.
THANK YOU EVERYONE. Much appreciation, love and gratitude to you all
This has certainly been the "best life we ever lived"
-EV
next round of winners in this exact order for picking prizes after Count are:
VedderMTL
BadBrains
Andrew McCann (from Facebook)
Belinda Roberts (from Facebook)
JohnnieBeBlue
adusick
TH113769
PorchgirlCO
Unthought Known
For all the generous people listed above, you will hear from me when it's your turn to pick. More winners to be announced and to come once we clear out some prizes from above!!
Oh shit, I won! Hahaha. Nice! We ALL are winners, everyone who helped Dave out, awesome job guys. On a personal note, Danno would be very proud of the job you're doing Dave. Thanks man.
Oh shit, I won! Hahaha. Nice! We ALL are winners, everyone who helped Dave out, awesome job guys. On a personal note, Danno would be very proud of the job you're doing Dave. Thanks man.
Thank you Nart..feel free to share with us information on Danno....we'd be honored to hear a little of his legacy and what he meant to you
Barihan Isshak knew she couldn't call her son on his birthday.
As a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, Daniel Isshak often was assigned to a place where she couldn't reach him, but he could contact her.
When her son called on Sept. 26, Barihan Isshak was unaware he was in Iraq. As an only child, Daniel Isshak didn't want to worry his parents, so he never told them that he volunteered to ship out.
About a week after his 25th birthday, the couple found out his whereabouts when an Army official rang the doorbell with news that their son had been killed.
Isshak, a former Anaheim resident, died Oct. 3 after his vehicle came under enemy small-arms fire in Hawija, Iraq. Isshak was assigned to guard a colonel and was protecting him when he died, said Isshak's cousin, Sasha Maher. About 30 members of the armed forces from Orange County have died in fighting in the Mideast.
More than 300 people attended Isshak's funeral and Muslim burial Saturday in Westminster Memorial Park, Maher said.
Anaheim ties Isshak spent his childhood in Anaheim, where he attended Hansen Elementary School.
After the family moved to Alta Loma in 1992, they stayed involved in the local Circassian community. Maher said about 1,000 Circassians - Muslims who originated from southern Russia - live in Orange County.
Isshak took Circassian language and dance classes when he was a child and teenager, Maher said. When he got older, Isshak played ice hockey.
Military decision At age 17, after graduating from high school, the usually obedient Isshak shocked his parents when he insisted that he was going to join the Army.
"He said, 'Nobody fooled me. Nobody pushed me. Nobody is forcing me. This is what I want to do. With or without your blessing, I'm going to go. I'm going to join the U.S. Army,' " Barihan Isshak recalled. "I almost fell on the ground."
His parents signed the paperwork for him to leave before his 18th birthday because they didn't want to drag out the wait. But his sudden departure weighed on them.
"We were so sad. If anybody said, 'How's Danny?' we were torn to pieces," Barihan Isshak said. "I think I grieved for him back in July 1999."
Going to Iraq Daniel Isshak spent most of his service in Fort Benning, Ga., as an Army Ranger. Isshak followed his roommates, Joel and Jessica Peterson, to a post in Hawaii. From there, he was assigned to Iraq, leaving Aug. 3.
Jessica Peterson, whose husband served with Isshak and remains in Iraq, said Isshak likened the situation of going to medical school to become a surgeon but never performing surgery.
He debated whether to tell his parents.
"He didn't want them to worry about him," Peterson said. "It was a hard decision for him to make. He knew it was going to be really hard to keep it from them."
During their birthday conversation, Isshak told his mother that he wanted to take a trip with his parents back East during a vacation in January.
Barihan Isshak teased him about wanting to visit a girl in New Jersey.
Barihan Isshak said she understands why her son declined to tell her where he was, and she's proud: "We know that's what he wanted. He loved what he was doing."
"Daniel told me, 'No matter what happens, no matter where I go, Mom, don't cry. Don't be sad. Don't worry about it.' "
Comments
2013: London, Brooklyn 1&2 | 2014: Detroit | 2015: New York | 2016: Ottawa / Toronto 1 / Wrigley 1
LOL, they are actually called Caramel Delights here in NJ because Samoas are not PC...I guess when we talk about Cuban Cigars, we can no longer call them Cubans?
EV * 2012 * Manchester * London 1 * London 2 * 2017 * Dublin * Cork *
Not at all Emjot!! You got a few min LOL
Please send your donation entries and User Name via Paypal (as a friend's payment if it allows in US currency) to:
OperationYellowRibbonSJ@gmail.com
Good luck!
NOPE! for care packages instead
EV * 2012 * Manchester * London 1 * London 2 * 2017 * Dublin * Cork *
I'm gonna need a care package if I don't hear from you soon.
EV * 2012 * Manchester * London 1 * London 2 * 2017 * Dublin * Cork *
exactly and donations received, thank you Marta!!
EV * 2012 * Manchester * London 1 * London 2 * 2017 * Dublin * Cork *
There's nothing I can say to express my amazement and gratitude to all the help here whether thru donation entries, donated prizes, bumps and everything in between.
This has been amazing.
Your help, you have all helped raise (before expenses are incurred for shipping etc): $2168. This is an amazing amount. Truly. THANK YOU EVERYONE for their help and assistance.
OYR is spending between $4000-$5000 each month on shipping expenses and purchasing care package items so this truly is of HUGE help!
With that said, the moment you have been waiting over a month for....the raffle results. With the grand prize selection where she can pick any prize from the list, our grand prize winner is: forum user "countonbothhands"
I will continue to draw winners and be in touch once it is your turn to pick from what's left of the prizes. Lots of prizes available so if you don't hear from me right away, it doesn't mean it's over and all is lost. It may take me a few days to notify you based on the winner before you replying.
THANK YOU EVERYONE. Much appreciation, love and gratitude to you all
This has certainly been the "best life we ever lived"
-EV
Chris, if you win, sure I will go with you. Thanks!
My GF would kill me...
I don't care!
ok, she can take me
8/17/98 Noblesville, 8/18/00 Noblesville, 6/5/03 San Diego, 6/22/03 Noblesville, 9/11/05 Kitchener, 5/7/10 Noblesville, 9/15/11 Hamilton, 11/21/12 Memphis (Ed w/ Glen), 7/19/13 Wrigley, 10/11/13 Pittsburgh, 10/01/14 Cincinnati, 10/03/14 Saint Louis, 4/16/16 Greenville, 4/26/16 Lexington, 5/1/16 NYC, 5/2/16 NYC, 8/20/16 Wrigley, 8/22/16 Wrigley (For Hank), 8/18/18 Wrigley, 8/20/18 Wrigley (For Hank), 9/18/22 Saint Louis, 9/5/23 Chicago, 9/7/23 Chicago
VedderMTL
BadBrains
Andrew McCann (from Facebook)
Belinda Roberts (from Facebook)
JohnnieBeBlue
adusick
TH113769
PorchgirlCO
Unthought Known
For all the generous people listed above, you will hear from me when it's your turn to pick. More winners to be announced and to come once we clear out some prizes from above!!
Thank you Nart..feel free to share with us information on Danno....we'd be honored to hear a little of his legacy and what he meant to you
Congrats Dawn as our major prize winner.
Now I waited up for the 2am draw I better nod off. Good bit of Sunday night excitement
http://m.ocregister.com/articles/isshak-42725-going-parents.html
By SARAH TULLY
Email Article
Barihan Isshak knew she couldn't call her son on his birthday.
As a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, Daniel Isshak often was assigned to a place where she couldn't reach him, but he could contact her.
When her son called on Sept. 26, Barihan Isshak was unaware he was in Iraq. As an only child, Daniel Isshak didn't want to worry his parents, so he never told them that he volunteered to ship out.
About a week after his 25th birthday, the couple found out his whereabouts when an Army official rang the doorbell with news that their son had been killed.
Isshak, a former Anaheim resident, died Oct. 3 after his vehicle came under enemy small-arms fire in Hawija, Iraq. Isshak was assigned to guard a colonel and was protecting him when he died, said Isshak's cousin, Sasha Maher. About 30 members of the armed forces from Orange County have died in fighting in the Mideast.
More than 300 people attended Isshak's funeral and Muslim burial Saturday in Westminster Memorial Park, Maher said.
Anaheim ties
Isshak spent his childhood in Anaheim, where he attended Hansen Elementary School.
After the family moved to Alta Loma in 1992, they stayed involved in the local Circassian community. Maher said about 1,000 Circassians - Muslims who originated from southern Russia - live in Orange County.
Isshak took Circassian language and dance classes when he was a child and teenager, Maher said. When he got older, Isshak played ice hockey.
Military decision
At age 17, after graduating from high school, the usually obedient Isshak shocked his parents when he insisted that he was going to join the Army.
"He said, 'Nobody fooled me. Nobody pushed me. Nobody is forcing me. This is what I want to do. With or without your blessing, I'm going to go. I'm going to join the U.S. Army,' " Barihan Isshak recalled. "I almost fell on the ground."
His parents signed the paperwork for him to leave before his 18th birthday because they didn't want to drag out the wait. But his sudden departure weighed on them.
"We were so sad. If anybody said, 'How's Danny?' we were torn to pieces," Barihan Isshak said. "I think I grieved for him back in July 1999."
Going to Iraq
Daniel Isshak spent most of his service in Fort Benning, Ga., as an Army Ranger. Isshak followed his roommates, Joel and Jessica Peterson, to a post in Hawaii. From there, he was assigned to Iraq, leaving Aug. 3.
Jessica Peterson, whose husband served with Isshak and remains in Iraq, said Isshak likened the situation of going to medical school to become a surgeon but never performing surgery.
He debated whether to tell his parents.
"He didn't want them to worry about him," Peterson said. "It was a hard decision for him to make. He knew it was going to be really hard to keep it from them."
During their birthday conversation, Isshak told his mother that he wanted to take a trip with his parents back East during a vacation in January.
Barihan Isshak teased him about wanting to visit a girl in New Jersey.
Barihan Isshak said she understands why her son declined to tell her where he was, and she's proud: "We know that's what he wanted. He loved what he was doing."
"Daniel told me, 'No matter what happens, no matter where I go, Mom, don't cry. Don't be sad. Don't worry about it.' "