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Stacey Nicole

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About Me


MY HEROES WEAR COMBAT BOOTS ..... THANK YOU: COAST GUARD - NAVY - MARINES - ARMY - AIR FORCE - NATIONAL GUARD - RESERVES ..... REMEMBER OUR POW/MIA'S
i am: happily married . step-mom to two great girls . a bookworm . an animal lover . a vegetarian . quirky . a christian . pro-life . a registered marrow and organ donor . politically conservative . an adoptee who has happily reunited with her birth family . a photographer (see some of my work here ) . an admirer of pin-up art . fond of the works of van gogh, cezanne, and vogeler
i am: the granddaughter of two world war ii vets (my birth mom's dad served in the german luftwaffe; my adoptive mom's dad served in the u.s. army) . deeply committed to the pow/mia issue . fascinated with military history . a life member of the associates of vietnam veterans of america . an adopted member vva chapter 278 , for which i am the special advisor on the pow/mia issue . an honorary member of the united states coast guard . a wearer of pow bracelets for pow keith "matt" maupin (09 april 2004), pow eleanor ardel vietti (30 may 1962), and for mia john armstrong (09 november 1967) . a friend to veterans and proud of it
i am: me
randomness: i auditioned, albeit unsuccessfully, for the show jeopardy! in 2002 . i modeled and appeared in commercials as a kid . i can turn my feet backwards . i can sing the english alphabet backwards . i have done mission work (costa rica, 1995) and have been an exchange student (germany, 1998) . i am 1/16th cherokee indian and a whole lot of german . i have a letter from mikhael gorbachev . i have nearly every single work of agatha christie . i cannot roll my r's. i cannot even say my r's and w's properly most the time . i am near-sided . i am lactose intolerant . i get the hiccups when i eat bread dry . i am not weird; i am gifted

My Interests

spending time with my family . digital photography . hanging out with veterans . pestering our cats and dogs . collecting: old books; old cameras; military/veteran/pow-mia patches, pins, and buttons; and anything related to the beatles . being out in nature . military history . pin-up art . vintage clothing and shoes . the dallas stars . anything les miserables

make-a-wish foundation . mercy ships . hunger site . breast cancer site . child health site . literacy site . rainforest site . animal rescue site

I'd like to meet:



[real life] people i want to meet: a world war i veteran . capt. scott o'grady . bill o'reilly . margaret thatcher . mikael gorbachev . laura bush . bill nye (the science guy) . ben stein . jay leno . mike rowe
[myspace] people i want to meet: fellow: photographers . pow/mia activists . military supporters . bookworms . adoptees
[groovy] people i've met: george w. bush, rick perry, phil gramm, dick armey, and a bunch of other politicians . ross perot . john mueller . don mclean . the liverpool legends . louise harrison (george harrison's sister) . two medal of honor winners . four ex-pow's (one from wwii, two from the korean war, and one from the vietnam war) . dale sizemore (of blackhawk down fame) . admiral thomas collins (former commandant of the uscg) as well as other top coast guard officials . my birth family

there are numerous profiles in my friends list that were created to honor sick or missing children. please take the time to look at the profiles, and see what you can do to help. thank you so much.

Music:

the beatles . the beach boys . simon and garfunkel . neil diamond . buddy holly . ritchie valens . don mclean . herman's hermits . ella fitzgerald (wish I could sing like her!) . louis armstrong . u2 . john lennon . john mueller . the everly brothers . bing crosby . carman . michael w. smith . phillips, craig, and dean . rich mullins . steven curtis chapman . 4him . the liverpool legends . the monkees . the mamas and the papas . paul revere & the raiders . jan and dean . sonny and cher . matchbox twenty . weird al yankovic . classical music (mozart and mussorgksy rock!) . swing . big band

Movies:

annie . back to the future trilogy . bean . cars . clue . cocoon . dead poet's society . donnie darko . fiddler on the roof . field of dreams . finding nemo . flight of the navigator . forest gump . frequency . ghostbusters . ghost world . good will hunting . the goonies . the green mile . a hard day's night . the incredibles . the indiana jones trilogy . la vita è bella . les miserables . the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe . the lord of the rings trilogy . miss congeniality . monsters, inc . murder by death . open season . pirates of silicon valley . pleasantville . rebel without a cause . return to oz . the sixth sense . the sound of music . all the star wars movies . west side story . what the deaf man heard . the wizard of oz . anything with laurel and hardy or charlie chaplin or audrey hepburn . the band of brothers series

Television:

the andy griffith show . america's next top model . american chopper . are you being served . burn notice . charmed . digging for the truth . dirty jobs . how it's made . jay leno . jeopardy . law & order . law & order: svu . little people, big world . mad men . m*a*s*h . miami ink . mind of mencia . mr. bean . project runway . tales from the darkside . what not to wear . whose line is it anyway . without a trace . the history channel . fox news . the discovery channel . any nhl game, especially the dallas stars

Books:

anne frank's diary . the bible . the chronicles of narnia (all of the stories) . a clockwork orange . the complete poems of emily dickinson . the devil's arithmetic . the divine comedy . the five people you meet in heaven . freakonomics . the hobbit . in cold blood . les miserables . the lord of the rings triology . a tale of two cities . vanishing acts . just about anything by agatha christie . the hardy boys and the nancy drew mysteries
currently reading: federal benefits for veterans and dependents: 2007 edition [department of veterans affiars]

Heroes:

our men and women who served, or are serving, in the armed forces of the united states of america . our pow/mia's . the families of ouw pow/mia/kia-bnr's . ex-pow's . capt. scott o'grady . teachers . police, firefighters, emt's . the guys involved in blackhawk down; i had the honor of meeting one of them in 2003 . the survivors of the okc bombing . john walsh

My Blog

Ex-POW of the Day: Thomas T. Horio

Name: Thomas Teruo HorioBranch/Rank: UNITED STATES ARMY/E4Unit: 1 BN 10 CAV RGTDate of Birth:Home City of Record: HONOLULU HIDate of Loss: 11 May 1969Date of Release: 27 March 1973Country of Loss: SOU...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:28:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: Raymon A. Horinek

Name: Ramon Anton HorinekRank/Branch: United States Air Force/04Unit:Date of Birth: 09 December 1932Home City of Record: Atwood KSDate of Loss: 25 October 1967Date of Release: 14 March 1973Country of ...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:20:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: Dewey T. Holt

Name: Dewey Thomas HoltBranch/Rank: CIVILIAN - 03/2007 DoD PMSEA reflects a change to ARMY, E4Unit: Unknown Maintenance Battalion in Vung Tau, mechanic (03/2007 data)Date of Birth:Home City of Record...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:10:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: Arthur T. Hoffson

Name: Arthur Thomas HoffsonRank/Branch: O2/US Air ForceUnit: 555th TFSDate of Birth:Home City of Record: Cameron TXDate of Loss: 17 August 1968Date of Release: 14 March 1973Country of Loss: North Viet...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:20:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: David W. Hoffman

Name: David Wesley HoffmanRank/Branch: O4/United States Navy, pilotUnit: ATKCARAIRWG 15Date of Birth: 18 March 1941Home City of Record: Philadelphia PADate of Loss: 30 December 1971Date of Release: 28...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:03:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: James O. Hivner

[blog entry for 21 October 2007] Name: James Otis Hivner Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force, pilot Unit: 43rd TFS Date of Birth: 20 February 1931 Home City of Record: Elizabethtown PA Date of Loss: 05 Oc...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

Wheelchairs no bar to beauty, say disabled models

Wheelchairs no bar to beauty, say disabled models by Arnaud Bouvier Mon Oct 22, 1:11 AM ET They're young, beautiful, poised and ambitious -- and confined to wheelchairs. Meet the new stars of the catw...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Wounded soldiers family injured, killed in car accident

Wounded soldier's son remains on life support after accident that killed siblings 08:32 AM CDT on Monday, October 22, 2007 By HOLLY YAN / The Dallas Morning News The survivin...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:48:00 PST

Former POWS struggle with torture debate

Former POWS struggle with torture debate --> --> By JOHN O'CONNOR, Associated Press Writer Marion Oltman spent the last eight months of World War II in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and tears st...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:38:00 PST

Ex-POW of the Day: James E. Hiteshew

Name: James Edward Hiteshew Rank/Branch: O4/US Air Force Unit: 355th Combat Support Group, Takhli AB TH, 354th TFS Date of Birth: Home City of Record: Weston WV Date of Loss: 11 March 1967 Date of Rel...
Posted by Stacey Nicole on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:55:00 PST