Support our Troops!!!

BET’s Rocsi Diaz had a humbling experience last week as she visited wounded U.S. Soldiers in Germany. She writes that thousands of troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq and they want to make sure that they are not forgotten:

This trip was very enlightening and humbling for me. I was on Ramstein Air Force Base which is the largest base in Germany. While I was there I visited with the wounded warriors who had just arrived from Afghanistan and Iraq. Young guys that had been hurt in battle, mostly U.S soldiers,but their spirit was so bright and they were just happy that someone came out to say “Thank You”. Just me coming out there meant something to them like “we are not forgotten”.

I also visited with the base middle schools as well as their teen centers where the children of our soldiers live most of the time in a single parent house hold because one of their parents are deployed somewhere else. A great group of kids who where just anxious to meet me as I was ready to meet them. I lectured at all the schools and also the teen centers about college, career choices and in the teen centers with the young ladies we spoke about body image in the media and healthy eating. I even spoke about my eating disorder in high school and the current image issues I even go through today.

It was such a great experience and I hope it inspires more hip hop figures to go out there and show love to the troops. They listen to hip hop as they train and as they get ready for battle. What they said meant the most was knowing that people still cared. The least some of us could do is take our time to say thank you..