{"id":29,"date":"2012-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:21:47","slug":"thegratitudecampaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/thegratitudecampaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gratitude Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overture:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These Are The Days \u2013&gt; <\/strong> <strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"en-vault-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Z-HLxpWGCzc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>The Gratitude Campaign<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Hi There, My Empowered Friends:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I write this post today it is Memorial Day Week-end in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Many will be exercising the freedoms that they take for granted<\/p>\n<p>The freedom of a day off from a J-O-B that they feel enslaved to, or entrapped by.<\/p>\n<p>The freedom of being out in the open-air, cooking the meat from a dead animal of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>The freedom to associate with people of their choosing, be they friends, family, work-colleagues, or even, \u201cGod-forbid\u201d, strangers \u2013 people who they have never met before.<\/p>\n<p>All laudable activities. Activities made possible by the sacrifice of many whose lives were given to ensure those freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>This note found me again today for me to pass on to you.<\/p>\n<p>What you do with it<\/p>\n<p>How you choose to use it<\/p>\n<p>Is YOUR choice<\/p>\n<p>A choice protected by the service of so many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To all those who have served<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To all those who have support their service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The Gratitude Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>This is pretty neat\u2026..(30 second video)\u2026 Have you ever seen one of the military walking past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren\u2019t sure how or it felt awkward?<\/p>\n<p>Well then, let that be no more.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Truitt, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and started a movement to get the word out.<\/p>\n<p>In the three years, and counting, after founding The Gratitude Campaign, over 8,500 e-mails, and 1,500 comments have been received on YouTube. It seems that there is a lot to talk about with regard to gratitude for those who serve; not the least of which is the ever present challenge of understanding how to keep the politics out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Please everybody take just a moment to watch\u2026. The Gratitude Campaign; \u2026..and then forward it to your friends! THEN START USING THE SIGN.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Political \u2013 This is just a THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE<\/p>\n<p>BTW \u2013 if the movie does not open, please cut and paste the link .<\/p>\n<p>For today it is enough that<\/p>\n<p>I am Peter Pocklington<br \/>\nI am a Good News Merchant<br \/>\nI am a Purveyor of Prosperity<br \/>\nAnd I am my own personal guarantee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Freedom, Strength and Honor TO YOU<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>PASS IT ON!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>P.S. In case you missed it, here\u2019s the link \u2013&gt; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overture: These Are The Days \u2013&gt; The Gratitude Campaign Hi There, My Empowered Friends: As I write this post today it is Memorial Day Week-end in the United States. Many will be exercising the freedoms that they take for granted The freedom of a day off from a J-O-B that they feel enslaved to, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,16],"tags":[5,22,64,65],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network","category-freedom-of-environment","category-mind-freedom","tag-empowernetwork","tag-freedom","tag-gratitude","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/freedomwithpeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}