A moving music video by country artist and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee native Tara Thompson, in honor of our nation’s military, veterans, and first responders to raise awareness and to help mitigate the elevated suicide rate maligning these communities.
The video is the end result of a five-month video shoot done in collaboration with the veteran non-profit, Spartan Sword, that spanned from one end of the country to the other. Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words The video shows current military and first responder heroes at work and interacting with Thompson. Viewers meet Janine, “Mama” Lutz, a mother who lost her veteran son, LCpl John V. Lutz, to pharmaceutical suicide. Her story and Army Veteran Boone Cutler’s Spartan Pledge are what the song is built around, humanizing all who serve our communities and country. As the song says, “There’s a common thread in each of us, it’s the same thing we all need… a purpose, a friend, and a little hope.”
The emotional video is based on a true story, taking the viewer from sadness and tragedy and then lift them up with patriotic images and a positive message about helping each other.
About SpartanSword.org SpartanSword.org is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to halting the rise in suicides within the veteran and first responder communities.
The SpartanSword.org funds events across the United States where veterans and first responders can view the Spartan Sword and Spartan Axe and take a simple pledge to reach out to another veteran or first responder should they ever consider suicide so they can get the support they need. Make a tax-deductible donation at www.spartansword.org to support this life-changing work.
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I can’t do Facebook as I am permanently banned from that platform!
I even have strikes on utube as a comment poster. I understand, get rid of all of them.
Why can’t we just do the right thing? Why does everything of this world seem wrapped up and connected and named towards the false gods?
The Fire in Our Hearts -- Identity Dixie Here is a hero for you, in the true sense.
Heroes? Idols? Patriotism can be, (has been) taken and used against us.
Special places to park, special pricing on meals and or goods, special places to sit, special days for this and that. Each and everyday is something more special for something, or am i the only one that has noticed this odd phenomenon? Are we not warned against such things? Partiality?
Using each other to sell ourselves or something’ grates against what we are supposed to do and how we are to behave.
Now i can see helping others in need, but the world has taken these things to far, they have commercialized every aspect of any good deed and blow their own horns while doing it.