Everyone sleeping, but we can bagwork and sleep ๐ช๐ฝ the dream of APING a bag and sleeping, waking up to a 10,000x letโs make it a reality CHADS!
@zaiisadam1 Well in bro! But we really need to update DEX to show people there is a community behind this. Great work so far, but this has huge potential!
@Herb_Minstrel@brendanmjones We have made a crypto coin to help #SaveLucy the whole community has one goal and one mission, to bring $Lucy home!
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This is a message just for the crypto guys, who have been a help unlooked for in a place that seemed beyond hope. You stepped up to help me. Now let me help you. Thank you guys.
God bless everything you are doing to help #SaveLucy.
@Generalchad3
Please donate if you can. I have. This wonderful Army veteran and his family have had their dog, Lucy, confiscated , and she is facing euthanization. Why this happened is ridiculous . Brenden saved Lucy from the Middle East when he was deployed there 10 years ago .
They have now had to hire a lawyer to fight to get her back, and save her life. As everyone knows hiring a lawyer is costly . This story is heartbreaking and maddening .
#SaveLucy
The time I came home from deployment to the Horn of Africa a few days before Christmas and didn't tell my wife about it. We hadn't been able to talk due to the mission for days, so she wasn't alarmed by my silence. I got to the house and nobody was home, so I set up my camera and caught my wife, mom, and toddler son come in the door.
Of course, my sweet Lucy was there too, as she is in so many of my memories. Now she's been taken by the state. Why? For barking at the wrong well-connected neighbor. #SaveLucy
My mom is such a sap. I'm growing more sappy myself as I get older. I guess it comes with age.
That was a great Christmas.
@LoneStarChica@Kimwells67@TrotKatt@KellyG581976179@buckleycarlson@KristinaJulia2@Generalchad3
@MoonAndBack69
This is what we're missing right now. Lucy has always been around, even if she is just sitting and watching. We miss her presence.
We want her back ๐
#SaveLucy@LoneStarChica@Generalchad3
Good morning! Lucy was understandably uneasy about what was going on this particular day! You can see it in her eyes.
Actually, believe it or not, unlike last night's picture which, despite the note that X attached to it, was not made with AI, this one was (at least the T-Rex costume).
#SaveLucy (from the dog dungeon, but not from whatever that thing is with the stubby arms)
Woke up to $350 in more support from the crypto guys @pumpfun. I'm so thankful.
@LoneStarChica@Generalchad3@OnchainPeasant
I stopped by the shelter with the kiddos to drop off some more treats for Lucy. They must have been happy to know that their dog was nearby, even though they wouldn't let us see her. It's impossible to get all four of them to smile at the same time!
#SaveLucy@LoneStarChica
More help from the crypto guys. Just claimed about $500 more to help #SaveLucy on @Pumpfun.
I have had a crash course in crypto the last couple days, but I'm way over my head still. I am touched by the willingness of people to step up and help in this fight.
I couldn't do it without your help.
@LoneStarChica@a1lon9
Of all my experiences, this is my favorite story.
In 2015, I was camping in the reddish moondust on the border between Jordan and Syria, a stone's throw from what was then the Islamic State. My first son had just been born. Although this was my fifth or sixth tour, adjusting to this one was difficult. Something had changed in me. Priorities had shifted.
A young dog, pearl white in color, hung out with us at camp. We kind of adopted her and fed her leftovers. She appreciated having a full belly and a respite from the packs of wild dogs and angry Bedouins. We appreciated a little added security. Some part of me that was missing the new dad life I had left behind made me bond with this pup in a special way. We named her Lucy, which was appropriate, because it was similar to the Arabic word "Lulu", which means pearl.
As my tour wound down, I ramped up my efforts to get Lucy back to the states. It didn't feel right just leaving her to whatever nasty death awaited her in the desert. Long story short, I managed to do this with the help of an organization called Puppy Rescue Mission, which held fundraisers and paid for Lucy's boarding (both in Amman, Jordan and in Washington, D.C.), vet bills, and airfare back to the US. The generosity of Americans was truly amazing.
The only thing left for me to figure out how to get this dog from the middle of buttf***k nowhere to Amman.
One day, I got lucky. This Jordanian GID officer named Ali visited us near our camp. I had met with him several times over the course of my tour and I knew him to be corrupt to the core: an incompetent ne'er-do-well son of some Jordanian big shot, who owed his position to nepotism and lived for the nightlife in the big city. I saw my chance.
First, I asked him straight up to take the dog to the vet in Amman. He laughed, spat on the ground, and said something disparaging about Americans and their love for filthy dogs. So I went for his Achilles heel - his love of Oakley sunglasses. I told him I would give him my Oakleys if he drove the dog 3.5 hours to Amman and delivered her to the vet. That got him. He said he would.
Surprisingly, he was true to his word, so I gave him my Oakleys and threw in a US Army wristwatch for good measure. He loved getting both items.
I later heard through contacts that Ali, who had seemed to be as westernized as a Muslim in that part of the world could be, later defected to the Islamic State. I guess all the drinking, drugs, and philandering finally weighed heavily enough on his conscience that he decided to do something drastic to get back in Allah's good graces. I'm sure he got a kick out of showing his US Army watch to his jihadist buddies and regaling them with stories about stupid Americans like me. I don't know if he died trembling in some tunnel in Baghouz, found martyrdom in a VBIED, or skulked back to his dad and now holds some office in the government.
All are possible scenarios.
He did me a solid once, but I hope he got what he deserved. Only God knows what that is, but I hope that that's exactly what he got.
His example serves to constantly remind me never to underestimate the pull of what we in the West term radical Islam, but which they just call Islam.
Lucy, now pushing eleven years old, is still faithfully guarding my sheep.
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