Welcome home, neighbor

I get a lot of stories about people who piss us off, BooRadley sends us one to cheer us up, not just about this one neighbor, but the countless neighbors across the country whose small gestures that mean a lot and never make newspapers or the internet;

[Sara Chavalia] said. “When our lives are busy, things like soldiers fighting overseas tends to be out of sight, out of mind if you don’t have anyone over there. But you can’t forget them. Whether you support the war or not, you have to support the troops.”

Pulling off the shindig in such close proximity to where Steigerwald was laying his head as he recovered from a gunshot wound to the hand was not easy for Chavalia. But she said it took just four days of constant hard work and phone calls to line everything up.

It was all worth it as soon as Steigerwald thanked her, she said.

Ms. Chevalia’s “shindig” included members of every branch of the military, the VFW Post 3441 Color Guard and a local Boy Scout troop at her house to honor the sacrifice and service of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Steigerwald who had been released recently from Walter Reed.

Category: Support the troops