Posted on 22 April 2010. Tags: comments from users, hire patriots hirepatriots.com, patriotic, patriotic messages, patriotic people, patriotic sayings, patriots
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Thank you,
Mark and Tori Baird
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Mark Baird - who has written 283 posts on Hirepatriots.com.
My wife and I are "helpers." We are concerned about meeting the practical needs of our neighbors, especially our local Marines, sailors, veterans and their families.
We began a job board for local residents to post chores that they need help with. It has been very successful. Thousands of local US Military and veterans partially or entirely support themselves from our website.
We are looking for others near US Military bases who would also like to have a HirePatriots.com website for their location.
We also hold welcome home parties, military marriage retreats, job fairs and provide pre-employment training.
All of our programs are provided for free to US military, veterans and their families.
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Thank you,
Mark and Tori Baird
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Mark and Tori Baird began http://www.HirePatriots.com because of seeing so many young military men and women in town and then going home and watching the news of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They knew that many of the young military personnel they saw were going into those combat zones. The stress that these soldiers and their families experienced the Bairds could only imagine. They wanted to help.
Thanks for all you do.
Joseph Moran
Assistant Director
U S Department of Labor
Veterans’ Employment and Training Service
Hi there,
I rec’ved many valuable responses to my posting for a handy man to help around the house. How awesome is this!!!! I wished I could have done this 6 months ago but I couldn’t get on to post at the website. A lady from your office helped me yesterday. (THANK YOU!)
Could you please remove my post now.
Lori
Lori Escalera/Design Etcetera
I am an elderly single woman that is not allowed to climb a ladder. Through my advertisements on your website I have now had four people come to my home to help me with the odd jobs that I cannot do. I have been blessed to meet each one of them. I don’t have the words to express how thankful I am for the help they have given me. They have all been respectful and eager to work. I never knew I could find such wonderful help. Thank You!!!
Joy
Poway, Ca
This is wonderful! I am a recent widow that needs a pair of young hands to help me around the yard. I am SOOOOO happy that this site is available.
I feel honored to be able to help a serviceman and thrilled to know there’s someone out there to help the “old lady”.
Sincerely,
Eileen Cummings
I’m a senior…(very senior)…retired family physician currently living in Palm Springs. I always told my patients to “never retire” and I’ve followed my own advice. I’m now the only employee of my mini-corporation and I do medical analysis for law firms. I spend four days a month in San Diego working with a fine law firm there. I am thinking of moving to the area soon as the summers of 3-digit heat are not my idea of fun-living.
I came across your website by accident and will certainly need some help ‘nesting’ in my new home in San Diego. You are at the top of my ‘blog-list’ and I shall certainly be contacting you for some “Patriot-Help” as soon as I can make the move.
Keep up the great work you are doing. There’s no greater calling than to substantially help out others who really need assistance. I found that in medicine and you are finding that out every single day doing what you are doing.
Best and have a great Easter,
Donald N. ReVille, M.D.
>Mark and Tori Baird -
>Thank you very much for creating hirepatriots.com.
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>I have used it many times in the last year and have had wonderful
>experiences.
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>I provide lunch, beverages and snacks and I usually pay them $15/hr. I use
>them for a whole day. I love writing check to them.
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>This is a wonderful program because I can trust the patriots who arrive
>and they do very good work. In addition, they are very polite and
>respectful. I are very respectful of them and I get to know them and thank
>them for their military service.
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>I’m 64 and my husband is 70. We need lots of help and we love the patriots.
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>Thanks again -
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>Judy and Larry Logue
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Thank you so much for your support! I am a 21 yr old Marine Reservist living in Carlsbad. My unit just received the call to activate to deploy to Iraq and I’ll be going next month in March. I felt I ought to express my sincere gratitude to Mark and Tori Baird for their work to help my fellow brothers and sisters. I remember reading the newspaper when it was hiremarines.com and had just started. From that I found a job helping a sweet, elderly lady in Escondido with yard work. It helped me financially and would make her day as well. You’ve helped to unite the civilian and military communities and give people who want to help a way to feel good about what they’ve done. I’ve used the website so many times from yard work, to p/t jobs, to moving, etc. I’ve always had a pleasant experience with those whom I’ve worked for. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you so very much.
LCpl Jared B
I am writting this to thank you for all of your hard work with this site. I am a Marine who has been in for 19 years. I have gotten may part-time jobs from your site and met many interesting people.
My wife has had to go on disability recently due to a brain tumor. The tumor has been taken care of but she now has seizures do to the swelling of the good brain tissue around the tumor. Because of her going on disability we have needed to make up about 600 dollars a month. For the last 2 months I have been able to make that much and a little more. Thank you. Without your web site Christmas would have been very lean.
I tell all of my troops about your site every chance I get. I would ask a small favor from you though. Is there a way you could put a spot on the site for the service members to say thank you to the people who post jobs on here. I think your newsletter will come close but something on the site would be great. The people I have done jobs for have been wonderfull. I have thanked them personally and would like to thank them in a public forum.
Thank you again.
Keith M.
First let me say your program is wonderful. A friend of mine hired a Marine and he did a wonderful job so she kept finding things for him to do around her home in Vista .
I am wondering if you do speaking engagements? I am president-elect for a local Insurance Women Association and I am in charge of booking speakers. I know your topic would be interesting. Thank you for your response.
Regina Lemanowicz
Personal Lines Agent
Johnson & Wood Insurance Services, Inc.
Mark and Tori,
Best Wishes for the New Year. Thank you so much for your help with Hire Patriots. It is my first choice to turn to when I need some help. It is becoming a household name!
Thank you,
Glenn Schwartz
After failing to find anyone to replace our legal assistant, I listed the job on HirePatriots.Com. We had so many wonderful applicants it was really difficult to choose just one. We finally did and are very pleased with her.
Thank you for helping us fill that position. We will certainly look to you for help if we ever need to fill another position with our firm. Thank you for providing a great service, both to us and to the men and women of the military.
Kindra L. Willey, Esq.
Shelly K. Durrant, Esq.
I sent you a message on Wednesday asking that you assist me in finding someone to do some yard work for me. I had a call the very next morning.
David (a Marine) — sorry I didn’t get his last name –came to work for me this morning and did a fabulous job — did exactly what I told him and in good time. He is going to come back and do some more work for me in a week or two.
I am soooo satisfied with him and just want you to know that you are doing a wonderful service to these young Marines — and to little, old ladies.
Thank you — Lois K. Misiewicz
Greetings,
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My husband and I, both retired Navy, can’t thank you enough for this absolutely SUPERB web site!! As the USMC would say, BZ!!!!! I am a retired Navy nurse. I was in from “64 to 90. My first duty station was Oakland in 1965…my patients were all Marines, amputees – Vietnam casualties. SO, I DO LOVE MARINES!! We posted for someone to come and help us with our 1 1/3 acre yard and within 24 hrs had about 5 responses. I contacted the first one, “Big Al” who came a few days later and he did an absolutely fantastic job for us. As his schedule permits, he will be back to work again. Also contacted the second responder, a Ist SGT, who has 5 children. He and his oldest son came by this last weekend and they will both be here next week to help us with multiple chores.
I am so enthused about your site that I even put an article in our church newsletter and I continue to tell everyone I come in contact with all over the country about what you are doing. It is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Keep it up and may God Bless you. What a super WIN, WIN solution!!! We don’t hire illegals, our military folk (who don’t earn what they’re worth to begin with!!!) get some extra cash (and nothing is declared so they get the full amt without paying into taxes etc.) Again, our heart felt thanks for what you are doing. Keep it up and please do let me know if there is anything else I can do to help!! Will also see if I can get your site published in the Navy Nurse Corps Assoc. Newsletter!!! God Bless, Sandy Holmes
Dear Mark,
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Just another word of praise and thanks!! Our neighbors used the site two weeks ago and were as delighted as we were and he’s told at least 4 more folks about it, so hope that as the word spreads, our military personnel will all be able to earn some extra cash.
Several weeks ago I attended the Board meeting of our local Navy Nurse Corps Assoc. and brought up your site. There will be an article about it in our next newsletter!!! Nancy Owen is our local chapter President and I will forward and e-mail that she sent to me for you. She’s very involved with several Veterans organizations here in the county and hopes that they will help you out as well. Take care and again BZ!!! Sandy Holmes
Hello,
I am currently stationed at the below station in California. I have recently been introduced to your site and have helped out twice. I love it. I am getting ready to transfer back to Hampton roads Virginia and I have been checking out the jobs there and found that it is not utilized as much as it is in CA. I was wondering if there is any way I can get some bumper stickers. I was also thinking of having a large window sticker made for the back window on my bronco and would like your permission to do so. I have been in the NAVY for 12 years and I wish I would have had this opportunity when I first came in. I want all the people who work for and with me to know about your site and all the people who support our military. My junior guys have been checking out the jobs as well. Several of today’s junior enlisted are having problems paying their bills because of the raise in gas prices and everything else that has risen because of the gas prices. If there are any other ways I can help to advertise your web site please let me know.
PROUDLY SERVING, AM2(AW) PARKER
Hired my first Marine today! Got the call within fifteen minutes of posting the job. What an outstanding concept.
Ken Munson
Lt Col, USAF (retired)
Hi,
Thank you so much for the website and for all of your hard work. My son is an F 18 Pilot in the Marine Corps and I truly appreciate everything you are doing to help our troops. I have used the site a number of times and have always been so happy with the results. I have met such wonderful, hard working, respectful young men who have helped me with gardening, drywalling and moving.
The reason I am emailing is to suggest a way of increasing the awareness in the community. As you well know many illegal aliens wait outside Home Depot Stores for day work. Is it possible to have large vinyl banners made that read “Hire Patriots” in bold print and “Navy, Marine, National Guard, Air Force” written below. I personally would be willing to gather friends and hold a banner. With Illegal Immigration being the #1 domestic issue I believe this would garner alot of attention. It certainly would cause possible employers to make a conscious decision….illegals or patriots??? I also think the media would be all over it. Let me know if I can be of any help.
Thanks again for your incredible website.
Linda G
We have a great and wonderful heritage of freedom that has come to us through great passion, commitment, and sacrifice of those who’ve gone before us. It is very moving to see the Bairds are carrying on the tradition. Ted Magnuson, author, Those Self Evident Truths.