Military Calendar
Posted by Greg on October 17, 2006
The folks at Freedom Is Not Free have a new beefcake calendar filled with Iraq veterans shirtless.
The idea is to provide a stopgap source of funding for where government programs are inadequate to meet the growing need.
“It’s a stopgap effort to help people where government programs leave off,” said Rudy Reyes, who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan and is on the calendar’s cover. “This is a way for citizens to help citizens.”
The “America’s Heroes” calendar is being sold by Freedom is Not Free, a San Diego-based nonprofit group that helps injured service members and their families with such expenses as travel, mortgage and utility bills and special beds for burn patients.
Reyes and the other men who appear in the glossy 2007 lineup served in Iraq in Marine reconnaissance units. Sgt. James Wright, 31, who lost his hands and part of his leg, appears on the back cover in full uniform, saluting with what’s left of his right arm.
I suppose it’s a something…at least, in lieu of adequate funding for veterans’ benefits from an administration that claims to give a damn about our men in uniform.
