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2012/04/16 15:55:33 (permalink)

Next major PHWFF Outing

We are sending 2 participants from our Chapter in Erie to attend a 4 day Event in Coudersport Pa on May 22 – the 25.

This is a once in a lifetime Event to Honor marine CPL Jason Dunham a 22-year-old machine gunner from Scio, N.Y., he was manning a checkpoint near Karabilah, near the Syrian border in Iraq, on April 14, 2004, when an Iraqi man grabbed his throat. As the two scuffled, the Iraqi dropped a grenade with the pin removed, and Dunham quickly jumped on it, using his Kevlar helmet and body to smother the blast.


Shrapnel pierced his skull, and he died eight days later with his parents at his side at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.

His Parents will be in attendance to receive an Honor in his name




http://www.jasonsmemorial.org/

R.I.P Jason and Thank you for your sacrifice



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It will consist of the following along with more that I don’t have all the details on yet.

3 full days of guides or semi guided fishing on some great water both stream and ponds.

The location of the fishing will be Moores Run Fishing Preserve . It’s all Private water and they Grow the trout there HUGE. Moores Website is www.patrout.com if you want to see some of the fish and get an idea about the preserve.

It will be a fly fishing only event

Lodging at a Bed and Breakfast.

Meals including a Prime Rib Dinner.



Our Club The NWPFA Will will cover the expenses for the trip.

We will send them with rods Reels and flies along with all the gear they need.

If any body would like to help out with Donations please feel to contact me at info@nwpfa.org Or attend one of our meetings. Our next meeting is Wed May 16Th at 7 PM at Chicos in Fairview . I am going to try to have the 2 Heroes there that are attending this special Event

Please help out with this event We need all the support me can get....

For a Big enough Donation there will be something special in it for one person... But it has to be big folks....

Thanks for taking the time to read my posts today.....






 



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    Skip16503
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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/04/18 09:39:43 (permalink)
    United States Marine Corps Sergeant Mark Dean, one of Medal of Honor recipient Corporal Jason Dunham's close friends, and Major Trent A. Gibson, Dunham's former company commander, carefully sort out the pieces of the Kevlar helmet Dunham used to help absorb the blast of a grenade in the streets of Iraq in 2004. The pair delivered the helmet to the National Museum of the Marine Corps July 9 to be displayed in the coming years.


     



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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/04/18 11:14:01 (permalink)
    Wow that has to be hard......


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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/04/26 07:50:25 (permalink)
    Brian and I attended the EPSFA Meeting last night to talk about them taking some guys out later this summer ....

    By the end of the night these guys dug into their own pockets and helped fund this effort......

    Thanks go out to you guys.... You are true Patriots......




    On another note someone else did this to be presented to Jason's Parents



    Tom is a True Patriot as well as a heck of an Artist

    I listen to this every day ... Sort of makes my life seem easy......



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDh7hqHRl0Q&feature=fvst

     



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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/04/26 08:07:35 (permalink)
    Tom is an awesome guy for sure!
    Thanks to what you are doing!

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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/05/01 21:40:51 (permalink)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiFop6-djtA&feature=related

     



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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/05/14 12:46:08 (permalink)
    Here is a Story about last years Event

    http://www.firstforklodge.net/trout.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxRH6jNj2Hg

     



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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/05/14 18:30:24 (permalink)
    You and all the veterans there will be in my thoughts next week Skip.

    "They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it..... you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore."

    John Gierach

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    RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/05/14 20:39:21 (permalink)
    CPL Dunham was a true hero! I'm very sad for his Family!

    My Wife said, if I go fish'n one more time, she'll leave me! God, I'm going to miss her!
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    Re: RE: Next major PHWFF Outing 2012/05/21 19:32:13 (permalink)
    Quick update:
     
    The water levels looked good yesterday when I left and I saw a decent Green Drake Hatch as well as the others on a similar stream on Saturday.
     
    The Vets were to arrive at my camp this morning and were going to fish with Skip and Dano today.  They are going to stay overnight then head to Big Moores Run tomorrow.
     
    I would assume they are fishing a hatch as we speak.  I'm sure there will be a few good stories about this trip when they get back.w_w.
     

    If it has fins and gills, I'm there.

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