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Specialist Brandon K. Steffy
23 years old from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
178th Military Police Detachment, 89th Military Police Brigade, III Corps
October 29, 2009

He came into to this world a rather large baby, so big the doctor thought that he’d just walk home with his mother. Brandon was well mannered, polite, and tough with a contagious laugh that lit up those around him. In 2005 he graduated from Brimley High School and in 2006 enlisted in the United States Army, following a tradition of family military service.

He served in Iraq as a gunner from May 2007 until July 2008 and was deployed to Afghanistan in June 2009 where he was a canine tracker handler for Forward operating Base Fenty Kennel in the Laghman Province. He and his K-9 dog Maci were inseparable, working on tracking terrorists; Maci specialized in tracking the scents of IED making materials.

Spc. Brandon Steffy was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was attacked. His decorations and awards include the Army Commendation Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal-Campaign Star, Global War on Terrorism Service, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

Spc. Steffy is survived by his wife, daughter, parents and his sister.

Brandon made people laugh and he made them cry. There was not one dry eye at his funeral, from every day townsfolk, to big construction workers to police officers; they all recalled Brandon, this “Gentle Giant.” They want everyone to know that if you never knew Brandon, then you really missed out.

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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Way to go Packers fans!

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Eight years in a row! Amazing!

Green Bay Packers fans have delivered again for Wisconsin food pantries, winning the vote in the Click for Cans contest for the eighth consecutive year.

The online contest is sponsored by Campbell’s Chunky Soup, which will donate 18,000 cans of soup on the Packers’ behalf.

Every NFL team received 1,000 cans. The Packers won 12,000 more for America’s Second Harvest of Wisconsin by winning the NFC portion of the contest, then 5,000 more for winning it all.

The Packers more than doubled the Jacksonville Jaguars’ vote total in the championship round of the contest, 137,197 votes to 68,328. Packers fans voted in such numbers that their team won all 17 weeks of the season, then all three rounds of the contest’s playoffs.

This year’s donation brings to about 116,000 the number of cans of soup donated in Wisconsin over the past eight years.

The soup cans usually are delivered to Lambeau Field and distributed from there to food banks in late winter or early spring. (Source: Green Bay Press Gazette)

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In case you missed it …

here’s the local paper’s webcast of the event.

http://bit.ly/6o6iOo

Very informative.  I’ll likely have some observations in the coming days.  My first thoughts after watching it was that there are candidates running as “politicians” and candidates who are genuine concerned citizens wanting to fix the problems in Washington.  The question remains … which type will voters in the 8th choose.

Life: Imagine the potential

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