Pearl Harbor Day 2012: A Time To Remember, & To Heal

By Attorney Rees Lloyd
December 4, 2012
NewsWithViews.com

Friday, Pearl Harbor Day 2012, will mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese Empire air attack on U.S. naval and air installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, without a declaration of war, leading President Franklin D. Roosevelt to famously brand it “a day that will live in infamy.”

Pearl Harbor was then the worst attack on American soil in history: Some 2,403 American military were killed; 2008 of them Navy personnel. Another 1,178 were wounded. Eighteen Navy ships, including the USS Arizona, were sunk or badly damaged. Almost all the planes at the island bases were destroyed or damaged while still on the ground.

Though most politically-correct contemporary government schools will teach little or nothing about Pearl Harbor Day, and the veterans who died or were wounded there, it will be observed in various ways throughout the country by veterans and other patriots.

Pearl Harbor Day 2012 will be marked in a unique and poignant way by veterans and patriots who will gather together at the “Flags Up” ranch of the world famous “Horse Whisperer,” Monty Roberts, in Solvang, California.

There, Monty Roberts, and his “Join-Up” organization, in conjunction with the Patriot Outreach Program and The American Legion Department of California Patriot Outreach Pilot project, will remember the sacrifices of the veterans of the WWII generation at Pearl Harbor, by helping veterans of this era to heal from the wounds of war.

They will do so by making available, free to veterans, Monty Roberts’ three-day “Horse Sense & Soldiers” program for vets dealing with stress, commencing on Pearl Harbor Day through Dec. 9, 2012. Although all the training slots are filled for the Dec. 7-9, 2012, workshops are filled; a second workshop in what is anticipated to be a continuing joint effort, is set for Jan. 11-13, 2013. (For more information: www.Join-Up.org/veterans.)

Although the Pearl Harbor Day workshop is the first joint-effort involving Patriot Outreach and the California American Legion with Monty Roberts’ “Horse Sense & Soldiers” program, Roberts has achieved remarkable success through the years helping veterans to heal up by joining up with horses by using Roberts’ unique techniques.

“We are very grateful to Monty Roberts and very excited about working with him, and the American Legion of California, to assist veterans overcome stress, trauma, and the scars of war through Monty Roberts’ ‘Horse Sense & Veterans’ program,” said Col. Antonio Monaco (USA, ret.), founder and president of Patriot Outreach (www.PatriotOutreach.org.)

“Patriot Outreach was founded to develop ‘Coping Strategies” to help vets deal with stress, and Monty Roberts’ ‘Horse Sense & Soldiers’ program is one of those creative strategies,” said Monaco, a 38-year, wartime veteran of the Army who went through Roberts’ program himself at Roberts’ invitation.

“Equine therapy and therapeutic riding are gaining acceptance,” Monaco said. “However, Monty Roberts has created a simple, non-intrusive, intervention known as ‘Join-Up,” which offers everyone an effective tool to rediscover themselves through nature. Monty Roberts’ method deals effectively with anti-social behavior and withdrawal. It reawakens and restores one’s purpose and meaning to life. I witnessed firsthand the phenomena of Monty Roberts’ ‘Join-Up’ work with veterans. I saw souls sparkle in just two days.”

Kenneth Kramlich, Commander of the over 100,000-member American Legion Dept. of California, said:

“We salute Monty Roberts for his outstanding equine therapy workshops for aiding veterans to deal with stress. We are proud to work with Patriot Outreach and Monty Roberts in the ‘Horse Sense And Veterans’ workshops beginning this Pearl Harbor Day.”

Floyd Martin, a Past California Commander and Past National American Legion Executive Board Member representing California, said: “We have many American Legion programs assisting veterans, and I am thankful to associate with Monty Roberts and his ‘Join-Up’ organization, and Col. Monaco and Patriot Outreach, in this creative ‘Horse Sense & Veterans’ strategy to help heal and bring peace to our comrade veterans.”

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