Sheila
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99% of the time, I'm easy going & laid back ... but once in a while something (or someone) comes along who gets under my skin and just really ticks me off. And tonight was one of those nights.This woman claims that her hubby works on the base where I normally live & that they live in Ebina which is 15 minutes WEST of the base (further inland from the coast). She claims that she was FORCED to leave her home and took donations to help her during this time. Wait until you hear how much she took!http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/2310551/sand_springs_family_back_from_japanLet me just clarify for anyone who doesn't quite get it ...
None of us on NAF Atsugi or the surrounding area were FORCED to leave. This was a VOLUNTARY Departure of Dependents on the Government's dime. Anyone who's married to the military or married to someone who works for the school (DODDS) qualified to get on the free flight that I took. They kept showing her in the video holding an infant, but it's apparently someone else's child. Her youngest is 2. But, by having a 2 year old, it put her in Category 1 for the flights. They had 4 Categories. When they called each one, they started with all the last name A, then B, then C. There were still 9 seats left when they got done with Cat1, & letter C. 3 D families made it on the flight & I happened to be one of the 3. We were #120-#122 of 125. Had she waited, she would have made the fist flight, me and the 3rd family would have been bumped to the flight the next day and a family of 2 from the D's would have been added to the 1st flight.Her stories of the stores being bare of food and the gas stations being completely out of gas is fabricated. That is sooooo not true! There were a few things like bread that & bottled water for the first few days, but there were still things to eat at the grocery stores. No one in our area was starving.And the blackouts? Yes, we were having pre-planned rolling blackouts for up to 2.5 hours per day. But we had warning!!! It wasn't like the power was just going off & on constantly. Seriously? Who can't just sit down & play with their kids for 2.5 hours? Anyone with a little sense can plan meals around a blackout that might occur during a meal time. My family worked it out just fine!It just irritates the crap out of me to see Americans fabricate things for personal gain, but to see a missionary do it?
Google "Lisa Cash+Japan" - there are SEVERAL more stories out there. One of them even goes so far to say:
I'd like to say that I've vented & I'm off my soap box now, but I doubt I'll forget about this one any time soon. I'm just too freaking mad!!! ETA: Oh, here's the link to that quote: http://jenksjournal.com/news/article_fa0e972e-60b2-56f6-b66e-8ff157d9dcf1.html
None of us on NAF Atsugi or the surrounding area were FORCED to leave. This was a VOLUNTARY Departure of Dependents on the Government's dime. Anyone who's married to the military or married to someone who works for the school (DODDS) qualified to get on the free flight that I took. They kept showing her in the video holding an infant, but it's apparently someone else's child. Her youngest is 2. But, by having a 2 year old, it put her in Category 1 for the flights. They had 4 Categories. When they called each one, they started with all the last name A, then B, then C. There were still 9 seats left when they got done with Cat1, & letter C. 3 D families made it on the flight & I happened to be one of the 3. We were #120-#122 of 125. Had she waited, she would have made the fist flight, me and the 3rd family would have been bumped to the flight the next day and a family of 2 from the D's would have been added to the 1st flight.Her stories of the stores being bare of food and the gas stations being completely out of gas is fabricated. That is sooooo not true! There were a few things like bread that & bottled water for the first few days, but there were still things to eat at the grocery stores. No one in our area was starving.And the blackouts? Yes, we were having pre-planned rolling blackouts for up to 2.5 hours per day. But we had warning!!! It wasn't like the power was just going off & on constantly. Seriously? Who can't just sit down & play with their kids for 2.5 hours? Anyone with a little sense can plan meals around a blackout that might occur during a meal time. My family worked it out just fine!It just irritates the crap out of me to see Americans fabricate things for personal gain, but to see a missionary do it?
Google "Lisa Cash+Japan" - there are SEVERAL more stories out there. One of them even goes so far to say:I'd like to say that I've vented & I'm off my soap box now, but I doubt I'll forget about this one any time soon. I'm just too freaking mad!!! ETA: Oh, here's the link to that quote: http://jenksjournal.com/news/article_fa0e972e-60b2-56f6-b66e-8ff157d9dcf1.html
