About Kaye:

I have walked in many professions during my many years of life - bar tender, cocktail waitress, go-go dancer, Assistant to Treasurer, Office Manager, Bookkeeper, Real Estate Broker and presently co-owner with Phill of a motorcycle repair shop - Spokes and Power. No profession but that of the military personnel has more respect in my eyes. These are the men and women who have given their lives for our freedom from the American Revolution to Iraqi Freedom and the Afghanistan War searching for Bin-Laden. In each and every case these brave men and women step up to fight.

My father was a doctor on the front lines during WWII under General Eisenhower and upon the end of this war, daddy, being a psychiatrist by degree was assigned to VA Hospitals to establish programs for the vets coming home. So, I guess that kind of support system for the troops so they feel good about what they did or are doing is inbred in me through daddy. I lost my father to a heart attack when I was 13.

At 17 I fell madly in love and became engaged to a wonderful Air Force Lieutenant. His plane was shot out of the air over Vietnam in 1961. My peers and those of my mother became distant and unfriendly due to the volatile nature of how people felt about Vietnam. As I became older and more knowledgeable I realized that the men and women who came home from Korea were treated in the same horrible fashion by the citizens of the United States. Remember the Americans then and now have their freedom and don’t need someone to fight for it as does many countries in our world. Freedom is what this country was founded on and one of our missions is to fight for that same freedom for those people who cannot as was the case in Iraq with Suddam Hussein.

In 1991, God blessed me with a wonderful man who was in the Navy during Vietnam and one of his jobs was to take the Navy Seals up and down canals. We had a great relationship for 8 years when suddenly Agent Orange caused Acute Leukemia M-1 and he was diagnosed and died in 63 days. Again, my friends and peers stepped back, except for a few. Again that same Vietnam mindset reared its ugly head.

With the bombing of the twin towers, President Bush fought the United Nations and we entered into a war to find the terrorists responsible. The country wanted vengeance and our President saw to it. We then went into Iraq to finish a job started long before but were pulled out by the United Nations too soon. Iraq is now in a democracy - freedom, with schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, etc. open due to the sacrifices made by these brave men and women.

With the Vietnam and Korean Wars, men were dodging the draft, there was no support from “home”, riots and protests by Americans, etc. and the results of those 2 wars are in the history books. With Iraq and Afghanistan, women are now free to work in their professions, kids are playing in the streets all because we are supporting the military in their job. With the support of home, our military has a different attitude and it shows in the progress made. This project was given to me by God with the Christmas spiders in 2007 to the present and I will continue until freedom rings throughout the world as our military will always step up to help the underdog.