To all of my troop support brothers...

Fred,

I'm a little baffled by your post. I have found you to be a straight forward, tell it like it is kind of guy and I feel backing down your presence is a mistake. If you need to do it for personal reasons, by all means that is understandable and no one could find fault in that.

BUT I feel to back down your efforts simply because others are not contributing, does a disservice to those who are. I fear that the "out of sight out of mind" mentality may lessen the donations even further. Reading posts about donations, fund raisers and troop support is no different than any other post. If I don't drink coffee I don't read the coffee threads. Same for certain cigars, I don't smoke certain cigars so when I see a post about them I just skip them. Same can be said for troop support threads, if someone doesn't want to read them, they can skip them.

God Bless and thanks for all that you do
Chuck

[Whee]

I hope that this decision was not reached because of "pressure" to tone it down. I agree with ChasDen..say it loud and proud, Fred.

Because donations are down, does not mean we don't care, or we don;t want to keep abreast of the donations and troops. It's motivational.

I'm as guilty as the next guy by not donating more, but I still read the threads and am glad that others here do, what some of us can not.

[macms]

Originally Posted by illinoishoosier

...I hope that this decision was not reached because of "pressure" to tone it down.

There has never been pressure from anyone to tone anything down. And if there were I would bet that you would know.

Originally Posted by ChasDen

...BUT I feel to back down your efforts simply because others are not contributing, does a disservice to those who are. I fear that the "out of sight out of mind" mentality may lessen the donations even further.

This is a great counter point and one I obviously did not consider. Let me ponder this and thanks for a very helpful post.