There is a Spirit that can ne'er be told, It is the Spirit of Aggieland

In case anyone besides me has been wondering whether Texas A&M has lost its soul since the way the school administration botched the firing of head football coach Mike Sherman,  let me assure you that while the Administration and Board of Regents may have lost their way, the student body and the Aggie Alumni continue to demonstrate that the Spirit of Aggieland is in very good hands.  The following article from by Roy Exum from the Chattanoogin, hammers this home.

The most moving quote, from one of the Aggie family concludes the article, "Lt. Col. Steven Ruth, a classmate of Roy Tisdale’s at A&M and a lifelong friend, was so overcome by the emotional outpouring that he even asked one attractive lady wearing a maroon tee shirt – who he thought might be close to his age -- if she had ever known Roy Tisdale. “He’s the son of Aggieland, sir. There are no strangers on this road.”


Rarely does this kind of positive patriotic American loving spirit get any attention in the media!


Gig Em!  And thank God for the US Military and Texas A&M and Roy Exum!


Marc

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Things I Learned from Watching CSI

The flash mob at Gate 38 of Reagan National Airport

Friends and team members this is what Honor looks like.  There is an interesting article on Mullover.com that will bring tears to your eyes for two reasons; one this group of passengers are honor many of the Greatest Generation who were arriving on an Honor Flight to tour the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC and; two this should give you great faith in America, despite what you hear from America's leaders and those in the Integrity Free Media.

Honor Flight is a very unique and interesting organization.  Honor Flight is a non-profit organization that transports WWII and terminally ill veterans of all wars to Washington DC to allow them to visit the memorials put in place to honor their service.  You might want to consider supporting Honor Flight. Houston is the closet chapter if you are interested.

Enjoy,

Marc

A shining example of the greatness of America

A MARINE'S MARINE

Every now and then, in the middle of the constant barrage of crap that’s just pissing us all off these days,

we come across a story, a feat, an event that just makes us stop in our tracks.

 

Cody Green was a 12-year kid in Indiana who was diagnosed with leukemia at 22 months old. He loved the Marines, and his parents said he drew strength and courage from the Marine Corps. as ...he bravely fought the battle into remission three times. Although he was cancer-free at the time, the chemotherapy had lowered his immune system and he developed a fungus infection that attacked his brain. Two weeks ago, as he struggled to fend off that infection in the hospital, the Marines wanted to show how much they respected his will to live, his strength, honor and courage. They presented Cody with Marine navigator wings and named him an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps. For one Marine, that wasn’t enough ... so that night, before Cody Green passed away, he took it upon himself to stand guard at Cody’s hospital door all night long, 8 hours straight.

Nowhere on the face of this planet is there a country so blessed as we to have men and women such as this. I wish I could personally tell this Marine how proud he makes me to be an American.?? God ... I do so love this country.

Never ever let the ramblings of politicians and the irrational screaming by the media turn you against the Greatest Country in the World.  Visit any college campus, at least in the South, and just sit and watch the young men and women who will be the next generation of leaders and you will know that America is in good hands!  

Marc

God Bless Texas

Take 10 minutes out of your day and watch this video.  If you are not from Texas this ought to inspire you to come.  If you are from Texas and this doesn't make you proud, then you are probably an immigrant from up north, somewhere near Oklahoma or way out west towards Arizona from the east towards Mississippi.

Marc

Sprint to end iDEN service as soon as June 30, 2013

The death of a great technology in North America, although iDEN lives in the international market and few legacy Harmony Systems around the US!


Marc




From FierceWireless today (May 29 2012)

Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) said it will shut down service on its 2G iDEN network as early as June 30, 2013. The sunset of Sprint's legacy Nextel network is part of the carrier's Network Vision network modernization plan. It also serves as a period to Sprint's $36 billion acquisition of Nextel in 2005. Sprint said it will send written notices to iDEN business and government customers beginning June 1 regarding the shutdown, and will offer them a "smooth migration" to Sprint's Direct Connect CDMA push-to-talk service. The carrier said it will continue to send notices to its iDEN customers about the planned shutdown over the next year. Sprint said its CDMA voice and data services on its PowerSource devices (dual-mode iDEN and CDMA devices) will still be available. The shutdown of the iDEN network, which Sprint has been discussing since late 2010, is one piece of its Network Vision upgrade, which centers on the deployment of new, multi-mode base stations. As part of the upgrade, Sprint plans to deploy LTE first in its 1900 MHz PCS spectrum and then later on the 800 MHz spectrum currently reserved for iDEN service. Sprint will also be upgrading its 3G network, reducing roaming and energy costs and deploying 1X Advanced voice services on its 800 MHz spectrum. Sprint has already begun the process of decommissioning iDEN cell sites. Sprint expects to take 9,600 iDEN sites offline by the end of the third quarter. The company has said many of these are sites are no longer needed because they were added when Sprint had roughly 20 million total iDEN Nextel customers; Sprint now has fewer than 6 million iDEN customers. The rest of the iDEN sites will be decommissioned in 2013. Last fall Sprint launched its CDMA Direct Connect service, powered by a new solution from Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), as part of its plan to migrate iDEN customers to CDMA. Sprint said its new Direct Connect service, which rides on Sprint's 1900 MHz spectrum, offers improved in-building coverage and will triple the square-mile reach of its current iDEN-based PTT service. Specifically, Sprint said its new PTT offering will cover 2.7 million square miles and a population of 309 million (with the addition of 1XRTT and roaming coverage), up from the iDEN network's 908,370 square miles covering a population of 278 million.  In addition to the iDEN announcement, Sprint also announced it entered into a new $1 billion credit facility with Deutsche Bank and a syndicate of other banks to finance equipment purchases from Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) for Network Vision. Ericsson, which manages Sprint's day-to-day network operations, is one of the carrier's Network Vision vendors, along with Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung. The Network vision project, which Sprint expects to largely complete by the end of 2013, will cost $4 billion to $5 billion in total.