Welcome
Attention: The t-shirts with graphics to honor our Vets are now
available for viewing and purchase from the Graphic
Tributes page.
My
name is Hannah Ritter, I am a senior at Robbinsville High School.
At our High School each year, the senior class is required to construct
a “Senior Project”. These projects usually consist
of jewelry making, candy making, cancer awareness, Cherokee history,
taxidermy, wood working, etc. For my senior project, I have chosen
to show my gratitude and appreciation to those who served in the
Vietnam War.
I have designed t-shirts that I will display and sell. Some of
these shirts will be signed by anyone wanting to show their gratitude
and will be delivered to a select few. As for the proceeds, 100%
of it will go towards disabled American Veterans.
Also as you can see, we have created a website for this cause.
Here, you can chat with Veterans, look at Vietnam pictures, hear
Vet stories, post your comments about my project or other subjects,
get linked to other military sites, or simply just check it out!
I thank you for your help in my project, and I pray that you will
never forget to give Honor to whom Honor is due…
Commemoration
Well
if we are lucky, once or twice in our lifetime, we will have the
privilege of meeting an extraordinary person. This year, I have
met a young lady who is just that, Hannah Ritter, from our little
part of the world. She has embarked on a project to give a long
overdue welcome home to Vietnam Vets.
As the son of a Vietnam Vet, and a prior service soldier myself,
this project has great meaning to me, as it will for all past
and present warriors for freedom. She has decided to create a web
site
where vets can come to reconnect with old friends, tell their
stories, send in photos, and for her to express her gratitude for
a group
who received very little when they came home.
She has also created a shirt that Deals Gap, as well as many
other locations, will be selling. All proceeds will go directly
to the
VA Hospital system to help with the continued care of all our
past soldiers.
When she came to me with this idea, at the age of 17, it really
gave me a great feeling about our youth of America. That
they have not forgotten our past warriors, and that Freedom and
Democracy is still important to them. That they still understand
the sacrifices
it has taken, and the realization that their generation is
currently being called upon to protect those rights. So please
help Hannah
honor our past, through this site created for our Vets.
Brad Tabott,
Owner, Deal's Gap Motorcycle Resort
Where the Credit Belongs
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena; whose face is marred by the dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions
and spends himself in a worthy course;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at worst,
if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so
that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
(Paris Sorbonne, 1910)
