Giving Back for the Holidays

When you are making out your holiday card list this year, please include the following:

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington,D.C. 20307-5001

Many thanks.
Lisa

Today and Everyday We Thank You!

Thank you to all of our veterans, their families and support systems! On Veterans Day, and everyday, I wish to send our most heart-felt thank you to those who served and those who serve- in all capacities.

You are our everyday heroes! We salute you!

Happy Veteran's Day 2008!

Lisa Spahr
and Family

Review in CQ Magazine!

Hello everyone!

I am delighted to share CQ Magazine has featured World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion (2008) in their Review Section this month!

Thank you Bob Josuweit, Editor of Public Service for CQ!

Check out CQ at http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/

Happy reading!

Lisa

Heinz History Center Welcomes WWII Radio Heroes!

I am so excited to share this news with all of you. So many great things have been happening. We are finishing the audio book and expect it to be available for Thanksgiving and the gift-giving season. We are writing an article we hope will appear in Western PA Magazine (thanks to Jay Speyerer and Brian Butko). We are expanding out book tour by reaching out to other cities to offer talks and signings (York and Philadelphia are on the radar). ... the list goes on.

AND- I've just been told that World War II Radio Heroes will be a featured book in the Senator John Heinz History Center (a "must see" in Pittsburgh).... and... I will be one of the honored guests at the History Center's Holiday Book Fair on December 6th! Visit http://www.pghhistory.org/About_Heinz_Events.asp to learn more. Thank you Nan Best-Vitullo, Lee Heckman and Andy Masich.

I am really looking forward to all of the events and milestones that I noted. Thank you for helping us share this great story!

I hope to see you and your family and friends at the History Center on December 6, 2008 from 10-2!

Lisa

Many thanks to you!

As we are finishing up the audio project- putting World War II Radio Heroes on a set of 3 CDs with bonus tracks- I have so many people I want to thank over, and over again... Here are some of the wonderful people who have been working on this project.

Executive Producer
Darryl Grandy

Designer
Dave Williams

Readers (in no particular order)
Donn Nemchick
Rob Lowery
John Sommer
Flavius Jankauskas
Morton Bardfield
Dave Williams
Morry Feldman
Jill Cueni-Cohen
Jay Speyerer
Brian Butko
Andrew Butko
Brian Nuckols
Beth Caldwell
Sandra Rebholz
John Herington
Jill Cueni-Cohen
Samantha Bennett
Mary Beth Kratsas
Randy DePaoli
Mel DePaoli
Kelli Burns
Nannette Best-Vitullo
Dave Capan
Miyoshi Anderson
Suzanne Heintzinger
Emil Heintzinger
Joanne Quinn-Smith, Publisher, www.PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com
Lori S. Bridgett
JoAnn R. Forrester
Louis C. Rizzo, CFP
Jamie L. Johnston
Gregg Mathis
Mary Pam Kilgore
Gregory Robert Kuntz

Also:
Intrigue Publishing, Denise Camacho
Co-Author, Austin Camacho
Renda Broadcasting Corporation

Last but not least, the named and unnamed heroes who gave us a story to talk about for decades and hopefully centuries.

Whew! An update on World War II Radio Heroes

Hello good people.

My apologies for being so quiet for a few months.

We are in the recording studio now finishing up the audio book version of World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion. I have had the great pleasure of working with so many gracious volunteers lending their voices to our letters from 1943. And, I have been so fortunate to have a great executive producer, Darryl Grandy, leading us in all of the right directions. We should have the audio books available by the end of October- just in time for the holidays. The audio book will only be available via my website www.powletters.com and at the various speaking engagements that I go out on.

We have discovered the hamfest circuit! Rob and I attended our first hamfest at Skyview Radio Society, K3MJW, in New Kensington (near Pittsburgh) on August 24, 2008. We had a great time! It was one of our best book promotions yet! (Thanks to the good people of Skyview that had spread the word before we even got there!) We had a wonderful day with beautiful weather and met dozens of radio heroes. I was interviewd by Dennis Woytek of Skyview and you can see the interview here: http://www.skyviewradio.net/

We hit another hamfest the following weekend, in Uniontown PA, W3PIE, and saw many of the same radio faces as the week before! Its a following like I haven't seen in ages. Now, we are toying with the idea of joining our radio friends in Kutztown PA on the 19th and 20th of September. And, we'll definitely be in Dayton in 2009! How could we possibly miss that monster radio event?

I have a busier speaking schedule in the coming months than I have since earlier this year. I hope to be at a location near you. Check my website for the latest information www.powletters.com

Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you soon.

Lisa

"I Can't Tie My Shoes, But I Have a Great Memory!"

I am rarely at a loss for words.

The other day I was giving a talk at a retirement home, on my book World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion (2008). There were two "Spahr's" there. Wow. I've not met any other Spahr's in the Pittsburgh area until then. But my surprise didn't end there.

The lady of the pair took my breath away after my talk, as a few of us were conversing. She was born premature, 2 lbs in fact; lives with cerebal palsy; lost all of her family members with one exeption; and has been in a wheelchair all of her life. But her mind, is as sharp as a tack!

I commented on her memory at one point as she mentioned someone else's birthday (in a facility with more than 100 people!) and she said, "I can't time my shoes, but I have a great memory!" And, on her cue we all laughed.

This woman is ON! She's GOT IT! She has greater spirit than most people I meet on a daily basis. She has not allowed any handicap to hinder her life or the quality of her life. I learned so much from her in a mere hour.

She is happily married and has found wonder and amazement in each moment in life. She takes nothing for granted.

Wow. What an amazing woman! If I can be half that in this lifetime I'll be satisfied!

Who have you learned a valuable lesson from lately?

Visit a retirement center near you today! Take the kids! You'll be amazed at what you learn