Hey Bandit, We were up late last night moving boxes and folding shirts so we could be ready for wrap day tomorrow. Max and Linda from "The Tamiami Community Veterans & their Wives" met us at the hall. I was just going to write "The Tamiami Community Veterans" but all of a sudden my instincts for survival (which has keep me alive thru alot of stuff) just kicked in, so I will add the part about "& their wives". I don't want to be mauled by golf carts LOL.

We got everything set up and ready to start at 9.00 am the next day. The next day we got up and headed out to the hall to see who would show up to help us wrap. WOW, bro did we get a shock. There had to be I'm guessing 60 to 70 people already wrapping shirts, Christmas and military music blasting from the speakers and I do mean blasting. I felt like I just arrived at bootcamp on Santa's Sleigh. Man, I've got to tell you bro we all had goose bumps as we walked in. No way did we expect that many folks to show up.

I can't say enough about these people. You know how they say look up to and respect your elders, I guess that is really true, because I look up to and respect every one of them. At the end when they were done they came up to me, me the guy who needed their help and said thanks for letting them help out. That just blows me away. The generations behind me could learn alot from them.

We wrapped a little over 1,600 t-shirts plus other stuff and filled 43 boxes. The boxes in the pic's are two deep. I know to some it's not a lot but hey it's not bad for something that started with a couple of guys talking thru late night emails. Thanks for all of your help man. This is turning into quite a thing. This is what Christmas is really about bro. I think we as a people have forgotten what it really means. It's not big tv's, expensive video games, or new cars (not in my neighborhood). It's about people coming together to help each other and ease their pain. For a couple of days anyhow.

I want to say a big thanks to everyone who took the time to help me and Bandit out with this T-shirt drive because God knows you didn't have to. What you do means so much to so many you could never know. Let's hope they all come home soon.

Merry Christmas Bandit & Nyla, and everyone else who helped out this year from the Rollin Sixes Choppers family, Jerry, Pam, Jeremy, Elvis, Amy, George, Delilah, Ryan, Russell, Ma & Dad.

--Jerry
Rollin' Sixes Choppers and Rods