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Price of Peace
Check out this awesome video. Deployment ceremonies are never easy. Emotions can be overwhelming as families and friends gather together for their good-byes. Twelve-year-old Alyssa Gaddis and her 16-year-old sister Cassy Gaddis, of Springfield, IL, know this firsthand. They’ve been to many such events because their father, CW5 Jim Gaddis, is the command chief warrant officer of the Illinois Army National Guard. These experiences inspired Alyssa to write a song — a song to lift the spirits of those enduring deployment, a song to inspire courage and hope. Alyssa titled her song, “The Price of Peace.â€
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amazing young women!
Such an amazing video!
Thank you!
~AM
sue05
WOW!!! Fabulous!! Thanks!!
Carole
Wow!
Betty Kinsella
Thank you. GO GIRLS! I’ll be looking and listening for more.
Betty Kinsella
Sweet sweet American sounds…
HMMMM! Good
Smells like APPLE PIE
JUDY
Wonderful…Beautiful…Tearful…
Had to get tissues…
Great job…beautiful words, voices…
Thank You Vets…
Peace Be With You…
Blessed Be…
kailtyn
wow arent these girls amazing i accuatly had the honor to meet both of them and pick them up from the airport they sang and the momorial for Red River 44 theyr’ voices are amaizin they are like sisters to me i love them sooo much i know personally that they are huggers and winkers… i love yall Gaddis Sister!!!!