Telethon Breaks Records, Troops to Receive Largest Care Package Delivery in His

[Soldier4Christ]

 Telethon Breaks Records, Troops to Receive Largest Care Package Delivery in History

The telethon exceeded my wildest expectations. I thought that if we were really lucky, really good, caught some major breaks -we might raise $400,000- tops.

Instead, the final tally on the electronic tote board was $1,055,719.

In reality, the total far exceeds the final number. The response was so overwhelming that our website could not keep up with the orders. When all is said and done, I am guessing that Move America Forward will have collected about  1.2 million. People are still donating because UStream.tv re-broadcast the stream, and radio stations across the country were broadcasting or re-broadcasting in various markets.

Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham personally donated $15,000 each, and Rush Limbaugh pledged a personal check, Mark Levin donated, Michelle Malkin and Coulter cash flowed into our account. Mark Williams from WROR in Albany, New York flew into California to be our ‘relief pitcher’ and his wife Holly ran the sound board and produced while we were on-the-air.

John Ondrasik from Five For Fighting was an articulate and passionate guest who was truly inspirational, as well as Jackie Mason. We did experience a few technical difficulties that prevented several guests from joining us, which was disappointing but not unexpected. Some of the best highlights came from Hughes Sullivan, a Salem talk show host in Detroit, Michegan (whom frankly I had never heard of before) live from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas with senior military officials from the war college whose plain-spoken words about the troops, care packages, family struggles, and their mission grabbed eyeballs and heartstrings.

All of our guests were truly amazing, but Michelle Malkin was the break-out star of the telethon, alongwith Debbie Lee, a Gold Star mother whose son Marc Alan Lee was the first Navy Seal killed in the fighting in Iraq. Debbie ran our tote board.  MIchelle is so poised, professional and truly engaged in troop support, with the technical vision to make this happen. UStream.tv co-founders Brad Hunstable and John Hamm never left the broadcast from the moment it began, babysitting us all the way through.

Of course, the real story is that hundreds of thousands of generous Americans participated in a New Media venture that has never before been done. They did it for one reason: love and support for the United States military, our troops and our heroes.

Over 5 million emails went out in advance of the telethon, and the chatrooms were filled with people conversing with each other and us.

I am totally blown away. I could not be personally more thrilled with Wednesday’s experience from the Silicon Valley.

Again, my thanks and heartfelt good wishes to everyone who contributed, chatted, donated, and supported our care package efforts for the troops!

[Soldier4Christ]

I sincerely appreciate the people behind this telethon. From the responses that they have received from the Troops and that I myself have seen first hand it has been a wondrous boost to the moral of our Troops. Moral that has been destroyed recently by groups such as MoveOn, Murtha, Pelosi, Reid, Code Pink and the many other leftists groups that I can't think of at the moment.