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Siobhan Guiney
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We’ve just received the first pictures from the team of talk radio hosts, 9/11 survivors and others who are gathering outside CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa, Florida for the “Voices of Soldiers” Truth Tour.

We’re going to be doing a lot of listening on this trip - listening to the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors who are risking their lives in Iraq to protect America’s national security; listening to military officials tell us how they see things progressing in Operation Iraqi Freedom; listening to the Iraqi people, and much more.  [Photos courtesy of Nancy Alexander, official trip photographer]

* We’ve already started receiving our first briefings - as shown in the photo below with a CENTCOM representative along with Marth Zoller (of WDUN 550 Atlanta/Gainesville), Lt. Col Buzz Patterson (Move America Forward Board Member and also host on RighTalk Radio Network, and Siobhan Guiney (formerly MAF’s Executive Director, she helped coordinate the trip):

* This first day has been a bit of an emotional day as well.  Below is a photograph of Debra Burlingame (centered) along with Marc Flagg and his wife.  Debra’s brother, Charles F. Burlingame III, was the pilot of the plane that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon.  UPS Airlines First Officer Marc Flagg’s parents were killed on that same flight - American Airlines Flight 77.  Flagg’s father was a naval aviator.

* A photograph of Martha Zoller (WDUN 550 AM - Atlanta/Gainesville), Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson (of RighTalk Radio and Move America Forward), and Siobhan Guiney (trip coordinator for Move America Forward):

* A photograph of Marc Flagg and his wife, Siobhan Guiney, Debra Burlingame and Martha Zoller:

* We are very grateful to the exceptional people at The Qourum Hotel in Tampa who have accomodated all of our logistical needs and been extremely supportive in helping to make this historic event occur: