Jeremy’s Rants and Stuff

I received an email with a scanned copy of an article from my Dad with the below information. My Father is a Marine true and true and I support him in that and in this article.

Please take a few extra moments of your time and help a fellow American out. Below is an exact copy of the article. (I retyped it for blog formatting)

Thank you…. JK

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US Marine Colonel Simcock, the Commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive e-mails to his Marines. That’s one e-mail for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media.

So far, they’ve only mustered 2,000 e-mails. That’s a crying shame compared to the amount of fluff I get daily in e-mail. This is a legitimate request. It’s not one of the “little Johnny wants to break the worlds record in Christmas cards” situations. It takes only 30 seconds of your time. Here’s the email address: RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil.

If you are reading this in an e-mail (or blog), then you can probably click the address, type a few words, then hit “send” to be all done. It doesn’t have to be the Gettysburg Address. Something as simple as “Hello, Marine. We thank you for what you’re doing. You are in a noble task. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Best wishes & get home soon” is more than sufficient. An excerpt from an interview with the Colonel:

GRIM: Is there anything that you and your Marines need that we could send you?

COL. SIMCOCK: (chuckles) I’ll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about — and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 — we want to know that the American public are behind us. We believe that the actions that we’re taking over here are very, very important to America. We’re fighting a group of people that, if they could, would take away the freedoms that America enjoys. If anyone — you know, just sit down, jot us — throw us an e-mail, write us a letter, let us know that the American public are behind us. Because we watch the news just like everyone else. It’s broadcast over here in our chow halls and the weight rooms, and we watch that stuff, and we’re a little bit concerned sometimes that America really doesn’t know what’s going on over here, and we get sometimes concerns that the American public isn’t behind us and doesn’t see the importance of what’s going on. So that’s something I think that all Marines, soldiers and sailors would like to hear from back home, that in fact, yes, they think what we’re doing over here is important and they are in fact behind us.

Do it know!!! It just takes a minute of your time. That’s not much to ask for what they’re doing for us! And, please pass this blog along to your friends! Show the Marines we care!

So within my last post I talked about an online forum called the Grafix Lounge. If you don’t remember it, check the last post I made on here. Ok.. did you read it? Good.. now on with the post.

Well this forum is growing at a pretty good rate so far. We have started a new project and the owner has even already set up the first contest. Here is a brief overview of what has already transpired within the last 2 weeks:

Lounge Projects:

Recreation Project #1 - You take a known image (i.e.. movie poster.. cd cover.. billboard.. etc.) and try to recreate it. I’m not saying that it has to be exact and on the money… but it could be light hearted and funny as well. I guess that they could create a “spoof” or “parody” of the original.

GL 2007 Contest #1 - “The Grafix Lounge Triathlon” - Each member will have the pleasure to participate on their own time depending on what stage they’re best at, such as “designing”, “HTML” and picking out the image and thinking of the content to develop and publish your submission.

The Grafix Lounge also has a “Battlegrounds” area where artists can compete (for fun) against each other. We will also be starting “Appointed Battles” here pretty soon. There is always something being added to the quaint community all the time.

All in all it’s a great place to come and hang out, learn new techniques, share resources and ideas and make new friends. If you have ever been interested, or evenhave a small notion, in graphic design… I take that back… in “Art” design this is place for you. All is welcomed!

That’s it for now. I’ll right up more on the Lounge as time progresses.

JK