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05-23-2009, 08:00 AM
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820th RED HORSE Squadron
Nellis AFB Las Vegas
Silverton Casino
Over 200 Airman and their families
The Silverton Casino located just across the street from the Las Vegas TA hosts a couple amazing events. These two events are free to all Airmen of the RED HORSE Squadron and their families.
The first event was a pre employment event that matched local residents and deploying airman to receive emails, care packages, and letters.
We were able to attend the Welcome home event at the Casino and we were amazed at the generosity shown. The night included all you could eat and drink at the Mexican Restaurant that had been closed to the public for this private party. The Silverton offered a reduced rate to the Airman in attendance if they wanted a room.
The owner of the Casino was in attendance but he did nothing to draw attention to himself he just seemed to enjoy watching the Airman enjoy their evening with their families. No money exchanged hands as you were not even able to tip the wait staff as you were promptly told they were being more then justly compensated.
We are often amazed at the generosity shown our daughter. While in uniform and at a restaurant often she goes to pay her bill and some anonymous patron has picked up the bill. She receives many emails, letters and hand drawn pictures from school children while deployed. This time while deployed she had a homemade quilt on her cot. We were overwhelmed to witness this huge amount of generosity shown this large group of Airman and their families by the Silverton Casino.
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05-23-2009, 08:08 AM
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Re: 820th RED HORSE Squadron
It does my heart good to hear when people go out of thier way to honor our service members and thier families. Many forget that the families are just as affected as the service member is and in the case of little children, even more.
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05-31-2009, 12:30 PM
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Re: 820th RED HORSE Squadron
Okay, this makes more sense now that I read your blog. I was wondering how you stumbled upon this and then got invited? Sounds like a good event.
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05-31-2009, 02:08 PM
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Re: 820th RED HORSE Squadron
I see I forgot to mention a few details! We delivered a load near Las Vegas so immediately headed over to see our daughter who has only been back from Iraq about a month. She has been talking about this event and if at all possible she wanted us to attend. I believe she was the only Captain or officer that brought her parents as her guests.
We were thrilled to be in such an elite group of young people and honored that our daughter invited us to this special function.
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05-31-2009, 05:11 PM
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Re: 820th RED HORSE Squadron
It is good to see that there are still people in this country that respects and cares about our military....Also good to hear from those that benefit from those caring people...Hats off to you and your daughter....
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05-31-2009, 07:18 PM
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Re: 820th RED HORSE Squadron
They certainly deserve something like this for what they do for us. That's very cool and great you could be inside to see it firsthand.
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