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Ft Carson Commander Major General Mark Graham Talks at Budweiser Event Center

"It is one thing to enlist and put yourself in harms way. That is what we do, that is our job, but it is another to voluntarily come over here armed with nothing more than a microphone or a camera. Thanks to you, my family knows they have a reason to be proud. "U.S. Serviceman, Iraq

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sept 4, 2008 - Talking with Heroes announces the Budweiser Event Center/The Ranch Compound, show at Loveland, Colorado. A Special Salute to the American Military Family was organized by a Colorado based American Military Family www.amf100.org.

You can listen to these heroes, Sept 7, 2008 at 5pm (PST) on the Talking with Heroes program airing on www.Stardustradio.com. Video of this event can be seen at www.myfbn.com on Channel 4. An Audio archive of this program can be heard at www.talkshoe.com/tc/19487 Episode 69.

More info on this program can be found at: http://talkingwithheroes.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=1058

Guests on this program include:

Debbie Quackenbush, Founder/President of Boulder, CO based American Military Family, Inc. www.amf100.org the organizers of this event.

Colorado National Guards Operation: Military Kids (OMK) speakers bureau, Speak Out for Military Kids (SOMK) will be participating in the talk show. SOMK is a youth-led, adult-supported project that generates community awareness about issues faced by youth of military families.

Jenn Page - www.soldiersangels.org - Colorado VA Team Leader for the Colorado VA Hospitals Region 3 and Coordinator for the Soldiers Angels VA Teams.

Kathy Dean is Soldiers Angels Regional Captain for ID, MT, WY & CO. She is Colorado State Coordinator for www.SoldiersAngels.org.

Major Davis - 30+ year veteran with the Colorado National Guard who recently returned from Iraq.

Terrance D. McWilliams CSM, USA, Ret. was the Command Sergeant Major and Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Commanding General of Fort Carson. Terrance served on active duty in the Army for over 30 years, cumulating his career as the Division Command Sergeant Major of Division West, First Army and Fort Carson on June 21, 2007. He is now Director of Military Support El Pomar Foundation www.elpomar.org.

Major General Mark A. Graham with 30+ years in the US Army is Commanding General of Division West (First Army) and Fort Carson. Major General Graham has served in several operations, plans, and training staff assignments. These assignments include: G1, VII Corps Artillery, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany; S3, 2-29th Field Artillery, Germany; S3, Division Artillery, 1st Armored Division, Germany; Chief, Field Artillery Proponency Office, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Chief, Field Artillery Branch, Alexandria, Virginia; Executive Officer to the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/U.S. Forces Korea; and Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Carol Graham is the wife of Major General Mark A. Graham. In the last four and a half years Carol has tragically lost both of her sons. Her youngest son Kevin, who was a University of Kentucky senior Army ROTC scholarship cadet was studying to become an Army physician when he died by suicide on June 21, 2003.

Kevin was currently undergoing treatment for depression but had stopped taking his medication. Carol's oldest son Jeffrey was a scholarship student who graduated from the University of Kentucky in May 2003 with a degree in civil engineering, and was commissioned a lieutenant in the US Army as an Armor officer. Jeff was killed while leading his platoon on a dismounted patrol in Khaldiyah, Iraq on February 19, 2004. Jeff spotted an IED taped to a guardrail and warned his platoon moments before it exploded.

(RET) CSM Pete VanDyke - Recently Retired from Ft Carson as Garrison Commander.

All Americans can Watch the interviews from this Talk Show Program on www.myfbn.com Channel 4. This program will air on the regular Sunday Night Talking with Heroes Internet Program on www.stardustradio.com September 7, 2008 at 5:00pm PST.

The increasingly popular talk show, Talking with Heroes is an insightful program that is not politically based or biased. Talking with Heroes is about offering our military personnel an opportunity to share their stories as well as helping to support the proud men and women of the United States military and Coast Guard while on deployment as well as offering heartfelt support for the proud families back home.

Talking with Heroes mission has been to interview military personnel, support and veterans groups, family members as well as others who support our troops since Dec. 2005.

Bob Calvert and the Talking with Heroes crew has traveled to Iraq three times and had the privilege to serve alongside the troops as embedded journalists. Bob Calvert has the unique perspective which makes his message all the more inspiring and insightful. Talking with Heroes fourth trip to Iraq and its first to Afghanistan is currently in the preplanning stage.

For More Details on Talking with Heroes and Bob Calvert, www.talkingwithheroes.com

Videos on Channel 4 www.talkshoe.com/tc/19487
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Audio of past interviews www.myspace.com/youngheroes
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