Downeasters do their part

| March 26, 2009

Consider this your hanky alert, ok folks?

Got this from the Jawas, hallowed be their name.

ADDED: You can get more info on the movie, and purchase it here at their website.

This one is kinda tough for me actually. Although raised in Massachusetts, I was born just outside Bangor, and my entire family lives there, except my Brother and I who made it out. Been through that airport more than a few times. You can actually buy little lobsters in cardboard boxes there. It’s also the airport that was the alleged one for the movie Langoliers, but they used a different one that was about 15x the size of the Bangor Airport.

People in Maine are my favorite people, and it has a charm that is unlike any other place I have been. In SC everyone greets everyone else on the streets, or that was my experience when I went to college there. Maine is kinda the same thing, only not Southern (Obviously). My grandmother to her dying day told me that I should move back home because there was nothing anyone needed in life that wasn’t there in abundance in Maine. 30 years after moving out (at 2 weeks old) my Aunt one time got all teary eyed relaying to my then girlfriend how my parents took me away.

So anyway, I’m always proud of my Maine roots. The Senators piss me off, and sometimes the folks there can be a bit moon-batty, but they are troop supporters like no other group of people I have seen. The Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington is the company that puts the wreaths at Arlington during the Holidays. I regret this will be another movie, like Taking Chance that I won’t be able to watch. I’m just too sensitive to stuff like this. Maybe some day I can watch it, but for now, I’m just proud it was made.

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Ringo the Gringo

Thanks for posting this.

tankerbabe

I had NO IDEA about this movie. Thanks so much for posting about it TSO. I’m definitely going to find it somewhere. I’ve known and read about those great people in Maine and the way they are ALWAYS there for our military personnel and have been for years. I’m so glad their stories will be told. GREAT AMERICANS

And for the record….I’ve always said that a weekend in Maine is like a month long vacation ANYWHERE else. Just is!

BohicaTwentyTwo

I remember being met at Bangor in Feb ’05. We were on a smallish charter plane (We had to make stops at Bucharest, Frankfurt, Iceland, then Maine before landing in VA). We maybe had 100 people on the flight including the 70 from my unit. You would have thought we had a whole brigade coming home with the welcome we got. They were also willing to open the barfor us, even though it was 7 am on Sunday. Also the USO at Keflavik were great too.

FeFe

At least a 2 ply hankie alert needed. Thank you all.

Andy Mooers

Always always on the look out for a bean suppahhhh! Good site!

Fla Swamp Ranger

Awesome Trailer! Surely the movie will be something to see.
TSO: I am like you about such as “Taking Chance”, but I made myself watch it. Tore up a box of kleenex, but having read the Col’s account, I needed to see it. 100% right on track with the Col’s account. Great one, when the time is right for you.
I’m out

usnretwife

I couldn’t get through the trailer without a tissue. My sister first heard my nephew was back on American soil when he called her from Bangor. God bless all those people who meet our troops and welcome them home.