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04-24-2007, 06:52 PM
Hi there,
My name is Brian Wilson and I am a retired firefighter of 24 years from Maryland and I am now a parrot rescuer. I take the parrots everyware were I can to get donations to keep giving all of the parrots everything they want and desire. While they were still searching for bodies at Ground Zero, I was in New Jersey at a small Pet Expo at a private store with the promise of LARGE donations. Well, at the end of the day, and after counting up the days donations, we got a big 87 dollars for the birds. I was cleaning up and I asked a woman how far is New York City, and she said it is about 9 moles. I asked her to write down the directions on how to get there. As I approched (please forgive my spelling, but I had a bad head wack in a crash, 2 months after they retired me) Manhatton and seeing Ground Zero, I starting crying, seeing where my fellow brothers gave up there lives. As I got closer, I saw a fenced in area with mobile home trailers and a bunch of ambulances. I pulled up to the gate and the gaurd waved me in because I had fire dept. tages. A female EMT with a very sad face was standing there and she asked me what I had in the van, are there birds in there? I had Wilson Parrot Foundation on the sides of the van and with pictures of people with parrots stacked all over them. She asked me if I had any of them with me and I told her I had 12 of them in there. When I opened the back dooe, her thoughts of the tragity was temperaraly forgotten and she had the biggest smile was on her face. She asked me if she could hold one so I put one on her shoulder, and while she was standing there an ambulance pulled in and I say the sad faces turn into smiles. Right then, I found out why I was there, to put smiles on there faces, if just for a little while. I told her to hold Rosebud, I'll be right back. I went to the front seat and grabbed a Polaroid and went back to her and asked her if she would like to hold another and she sais sure so I put onter one on her other shoulder. Then I asked her if she could hold out her arms like a ballarena, she did and her ended up with 9 parrots and I took her picture. As I was stacking them on her, EMT's were coming out of the woodwork. There were smiles every where when they saw all the parrots. I took them off her and I gave her the picture and I told her to keep it in your back pocket and when you are feeling down, take your picture out look at and look at, you are a TRUE ParrotHead. Well she gave me the biggest hug and she told me she has not smiled since the incident occured. She smiled, I cryed a happy cry and someone in the crowd said, could you load 'em up on me, I said step right up. I ended up stacking on every person at the EMS lot. It turned out that these were not the only smiles my rescued parrots made that day. I asked them if I could bring the parrots down to where all the firefighters where coming and going and she said "lets walk down and find out". So we walked down there and there was a Captain standing there and she introduced me and showed him her picture and told him that "Brian made everyone at the lot smile, no one has smiled for so long". She then said, "could he bring them down here and chear up firefighter" and he said "HELL YEA, what are you driving". I told him and he got on the radio and told the Lt. to take the baracades down and let the blue van with the Wilson Parrot Foundation on the sides come down here.
I drove through the rubble and they had me park right in frod of the fire house right at the edge of Ground Zero. I took all the parrots, perches, 2 camera's 10 packs of film and for the next 5 1/2 hours everyone was smiling. I even had to go out and get more film. That was the happiest day of my life.
I must have been asked a hundred times, "how much for a picture" and I said what I said at the EMS lot "not a dime, just keep it with and when you are feelin' down, take out your picture "You ARE a TRUE ParrotHead". I got more hugs from my "Brothers and Sister's" in the 7 hours I was at Ground Zero than I did from my ex-wife in 10 years.
The reason why I am telling everyone about my joy that day at Ground Zero is because I am now in need of your help. Our parrot rescue foundation is in deep doo doo, financially. We have over 35 parrots that are very exspensive to be healthy and happy. Being a firefighter for 24 years, I don't know how to beg, but I am making a feeble attempt because I don't know what else to do.
All of my disability retirement, 85 persent of my Social Security, and 100 persent of all donatios goes to the parrots and the parrots ONLY. No one, not evan myself, get a dime that is donated for the parrots health and wellbeing.
The straw that broke the camals back happened on March 22, 2007 when I let a handyman drive our only around town mode of trasportation, to events where I teach fire, gun and seatbeltand and in Old Town, Alexandria where I stand on the street corner and stack the parrots on tourestes and do pictures for donations. I am like a high class pan handler. Don't get me wrong, people from all over the world are very happy when they leave us. Well, back to the handyman, he drove it to his house and was watching his 3 kids when his wife who was out with a mutual friend called him and said she got out of his car on a country road 5 minutes from their home and wanted him to come pick her up because he is drunk. He left his 3 kids at home, alone, to pick her up and when he saw her on the side of the road he passed her and went to turn around. As he was turning around, the right front wheel went off the asphalt and there was a steep hill with no guard rails and he rolled it and it caught fire and burned EVERTHING. It was fully envolved when the fire dept. got there. That very morning I had him load all the supplies that I would need all Spring, Summer and Fall, over 6,000.00 worth of supplies. And to make matters even worse, I only had liability. Please help us and donate to our worthy cause, and we will send you a Certificate of Appreciation and a tax deductibile receipt.
Please spread the word of our need.
Thanking you in advance,
Brian Wilson
President/Retired Firefighter
Wilson Parrot Foundation
26613 Ridge Road
Damascus, MD. 20872
301-368-3200
www.wilsonparrotfoundation.org[FONT=Comic Sans MS]
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My name is Brian Wilson and I am a retired firefighter of 24 years from Maryland and I am now a parrot rescuer. I take the parrots everyware were I can to get donations to keep giving all of the parrots everything they want and desire. While they were still searching for bodies at Ground Zero, I was in New Jersey at a small Pet Expo at a private store with the promise of LARGE donations. Well, at the end of the day, and after counting up the days donations, we got a big 87 dollars for the birds. I was cleaning up and I asked a woman how far is New York City, and she said it is about 9 moles. I asked her to write down the directions on how to get there. As I approched (please forgive my spelling, but I had a bad head wack in a crash, 2 months after they retired me) Manhatton and seeing Ground Zero, I starting crying, seeing where my fellow brothers gave up there lives. As I got closer, I saw a fenced in area with mobile home trailers and a bunch of ambulances. I pulled up to the gate and the gaurd waved me in because I had fire dept. tages. A female EMT with a very sad face was standing there and she asked me what I had in the van, are there birds in there? I had Wilson Parrot Foundation on the sides of the van and with pictures of people with parrots stacked all over them. She asked me if I had any of them with me and I told her I had 12 of them in there. When I opened the back dooe, her thoughts of the tragity was temperaraly forgotten and she had the biggest smile was on her face. She asked me if she could hold one so I put one on her shoulder, and while she was standing there an ambulance pulled in and I say the sad faces turn into smiles. Right then, I found out why I was there, to put smiles on there faces, if just for a little while. I told her to hold Rosebud, I'll be right back. I went to the front seat and grabbed a Polaroid and went back to her and asked her if she would like to hold another and she sais sure so I put onter one on her other shoulder. Then I asked her if she could hold out her arms like a ballarena, she did and her ended up with 9 parrots and I took her picture. As I was stacking them on her, EMT's were coming out of the woodwork. There were smiles every where when they saw all the parrots. I took them off her and I gave her the picture and I told her to keep it in your back pocket and when you are feeling down, take your picture out look at and look at, you are a TRUE ParrotHead. Well she gave me the biggest hug and she told me she has not smiled since the incident occured. She smiled, I cryed a happy cry and someone in the crowd said, could you load 'em up on me, I said step right up. I ended up stacking on every person at the EMS lot. It turned out that these were not the only smiles my rescued parrots made that day. I asked them if I could bring the parrots down to where all the firefighters where coming and going and she said "lets walk down and find out". So we walked down there and there was a Captain standing there and she introduced me and showed him her picture and told him that "Brian made everyone at the lot smile, no one has smiled for so long". She then said, "could he bring them down here and chear up firefighter" and he said "HELL YEA, what are you driving". I told him and he got on the radio and told the Lt. to take the baracades down and let the blue van with the Wilson Parrot Foundation on the sides come down here.
I drove through the rubble and they had me park right in frod of the fire house right at the edge of Ground Zero. I took all the parrots, perches, 2 camera's 10 packs of film and for the next 5 1/2 hours everyone was smiling. I even had to go out and get more film. That was the happiest day of my life.
I must have been asked a hundred times, "how much for a picture" and I said what I said at the EMS lot "not a dime, just keep it with and when you are feelin' down, take out your picture "You ARE a TRUE ParrotHead". I got more hugs from my "Brothers and Sister's" in the 7 hours I was at Ground Zero than I did from my ex-wife in 10 years.
The reason why I am telling everyone about my joy that day at Ground Zero is because I am now in need of your help. Our parrot rescue foundation is in deep doo doo, financially. We have over 35 parrots that are very exspensive to be healthy and happy. Being a firefighter for 24 years, I don't know how to beg, but I am making a feeble attempt because I don't know what else to do.
All of my disability retirement, 85 persent of my Social Security, and 100 persent of all donatios goes to the parrots and the parrots ONLY. No one, not evan myself, get a dime that is donated for the parrots health and wellbeing.
The straw that broke the camals back happened on March 22, 2007 when I let a handyman drive our only around town mode of trasportation, to events where I teach fire, gun and seatbeltand and in Old Town, Alexandria where I stand on the street corner and stack the parrots on tourestes and do pictures for donations. I am like a high class pan handler. Don't get me wrong, people from all over the world are very happy when they leave us. Well, back to the handyman, he drove it to his house and was watching his 3 kids when his wife who was out with a mutual friend called him and said she got out of his car on a country road 5 minutes from their home and wanted him to come pick her up because he is drunk. He left his 3 kids at home, alone, to pick her up and when he saw her on the side of the road he passed her and went to turn around. As he was turning around, the right front wheel went off the asphalt and there was a steep hill with no guard rails and he rolled it and it caught fire and burned EVERTHING. It was fully envolved when the fire dept. got there. That very morning I had him load all the supplies that I would need all Spring, Summer and Fall, over 6,000.00 worth of supplies. And to make matters even worse, I only had liability. Please help us and donate to our worthy cause, and we will send you a Certificate of Appreciation and a tax deductibile receipt.
Please spread the word of our need.
Thanking you in advance,
Brian Wilson
President/Retired Firefighter
Wilson Parrot Foundation
26613 Ridge Road
Damascus, MD. 20872
301-368-3200
www.wilsonparrotfoundation.org[FONT=Comic Sans MS]
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