Fw: : Chris Kyle - American Sniper

[ENRIQUE M LABAO]

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> TEXAS GOODBYE
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> This is why America will remain
> strong.  We take care of our own as well as others who
> may not deserve taking care of. I just wanted to share with
> you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by so
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> Chris Kyle was Derek's teammate
> through 10 years of training and battle.  They both
> suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took great care
> of each other because of it.
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> 2006 in Ramadi was horrible for
> young men that never had any more aggressive physical
> contact with another human than on a Texas football
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> They lost many friends.  Chris
> became the armed services number #1 sniper of all
> time.  Not something he was happy about, other than the
> fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American
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> Three years ago, his wife Taya asked
> him to leave the SEAL teams as he had a huge bounty on his
> head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The
> American Sniper."  100% of the proceeds from the
> book went to two of the SEAL families who had lost their
> sons in Iraq .
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> That was the kind of guy Chris
> was.  He formed a company in Dallas to train military,
> police and I think firemen as far as protecting themselves
> in difficult situations.  He also formed a foundation
> to work with military people suffering from PTSD. 
> Chris was a giver not a taker.
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> He, along with a friend and
> neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a
> young man that had served six months in Iraq and claimed to
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> Now I need to tell you about all of
> the blessings.
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> Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL
> and their family from any airport they flew into
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> ...free of charge.
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> The employees donated buddy passes
> and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to
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> Volunteers were at both airports in
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> The Marriott Hotel reduced their
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> The Midlothian, TX Police Department
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> there were about 200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of
> them were SEALs.  Two large buses were chartered (an
> unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the
> different events and they also had a few rental cars
> (donated).  The police and secret service were on duty
> 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.
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> At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS
> parked a large motor home in front to block the view from
> reporters. It remained there the entire five days for the
> SEALs to congregate in and all to use the restroom so as not
> to have to go in the house.  Taya, their two small
> children and both sets of parents were staying in the
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> Only a hand full of SEALs went into
> the home as they had different duties and meetings were held
> sometimes on a hourly basis.  It was a huge
> coordination of many different events and security. 
> Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris'
> body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral
> Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with
> Taya.  A tough job.
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> Taya seldom came out of her
> bedroom.  The house was full with people from the
> church and other family members that would come each day to
> help.  I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris’
> mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents
> (the other man murdered with Chris).  A tough
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> George W Bush and his wife Laura
> met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on
> one.  They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite
> a while. They had prayer with us all.  You can tell
> when people were sincere and caring
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> Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team,
> a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and
> hamburgers.  They set up in the front yard and fed
> people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their
> families.  The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a
> buffet in front of the house and fed all once again. 
> Food was plentiful and all were taken care of.  The
> family's church kept those inside the house well
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> Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves
> to hate, was a rock star.  He made sure that we all
> were taken care of.  His wife and he were just making
> sure everyone was taken care of….Class... He donated the
> use of Cowboy Stadium for the services as it was determined
> that so many wanted to attend.
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> The charter buses transported us to
> the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am.  Every car, bus,
> motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police.  I
> am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a
> name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a
> security risk, I don't know. We  willingly
> obliged.  No purses went into the stadium!
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> We were taken to The Legends room
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> about 300 people.  We were growing.
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> A Medal of Honor recipient was
> there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and
> her husband.  She looked nice, this was a very formal
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> The service started at 1:00 pm and
> when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked.  We
> heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend
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> It was a beautiful and emotional service.
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> The Bagpipe and drum corps were
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> We were all in tears.
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> The next day was the 200-mile
> procession from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. 
> It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were
> out.  We had dozens of police motorcycles riders,
> freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars. 
> You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it
> was huge.  Two helicopters circled the procession with
> snipers sitting out the side door for protection. It was the
> longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas. 
> People were everywhere. The entire route was shut down ahead
> of us, the people were lined up on the side of the road the
> entire way.  Firemen were down on one knee, police
> officers were holding their hats over their hearts, children
> waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by.  Every
> bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their
> tall ladders, people all along
> the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold
> weather.  It was so heartwarming. Taya rode in the
> hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with
> us.  I was so grateful to have that time with
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> The service was at Texas National
> Cemetery. Very few are buried there and you have to apply to
> get in. It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor
> winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people
> of Texas.  It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders
> surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the
> crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military
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> Each SEAL put his Trident (metal
> SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one at a
> time.  A lot hit it in with one blow.  Derek was
> the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was
> almost like he was caressing it as he did it.  Another
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> After the service Governor Rick
> Perry and his wife, Anita, invited us to the governor's
> mansion.  She stood at the door,  greeted each of
> us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of
> Texas.  She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious
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> We were able to tour the ground
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> BBQ.  So many of the Seal team guys said that after
> they get out they are moving to Texas.  They remarked
> that they had never felt so much love and hospitality. 
> The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch
> their returning  flights.  Derek just now called
> and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a
> dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting
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> We just wanted to share with you,
> the events of a quite emotional, but blessed week.
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> Punch-line:
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> To this day, no one in the White
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> However, the President can call some
> sport person and congratulate him on announcing to the world
> that he is gay?  What the hell is happening to our
> society, our honor and our pride??
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> Please, keep this moving!
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