8/30/09
hey I just wanted to say thanks. I am best friends with your son. he lives like 4 rooms down. I wear a pair of your karma beads. and I just wanna say I think you for everything you do to support us.
take care. C. Brady
12/10/09
Hi my husband just got some of yalls beads on his way back to Afghanistan from his r and r. He wears them all the time. He wanted me to thank you for them for him and I wanted to also thanks. We have been married almost four years and this is his second tour. He has been wounded before so it makes me happy to hear he is wearing the beads. I pray for him everyday and now i am praying for yall. It’s an awesome thing yall are doing and I hope the very best to yall. I was also wanting to know if I may have some beads to wear? It will make me feel so much closer to him to see them everyday too. I wore his dog tags everyday but my niece begged me to give them to her so if it’s okay I would love a bracelet to wear. Thank you so much for what yall are doing. Ps I put yalls website on my myspace. The army wife’s will be giving you their husband’s info. They were excited to hear about yall. Thanks so much..M. Roberts
12/13/09
I recently was traveling through the airport in Dallas on my way back to Afghanistan... I met a very nice lady who gave me a bracelet to wear. She said that her son is a marine and wears one while he is deployed and I said well I will wear one too. Thank you very much for the bracelet! I am wearing it right now. S. Jones
1/12/10
Subject: Karma bracelets 8/20/10 Hello I am EM1(SS) Kenneth Goss and I got a set of karma beads in Dallas Airport. It was awesome and I kept them on my entire deployment. Unfortunately I recently lost them in a boating mishap. I feel naked without them and was wondering if I could get a new set. I would gladly make a donation I would just really like to have my karma beads back.
"Hey! Tell your friend that we received the bracelets. Everyone got one and we LOVE them. Thank you so much Lori." M. Wright
Thank You
EM1 Goss USNR
Oct 1, 2009
At 11:45 Saturday, Oct 3, 2009, faith and hope for 200 soldiers bound for Afghanistan will board a military aircraft at the Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport in the form of wrist bracelets known in the war zone as Dougie's Karma Beads.
"My life depends on it," PFC Matthew anxious voice says, on a recorded message to his mother, Cheryl, of Arlington, Texas. His voice pleading for a replacement bracelet can be heard on a voicemail now posted on a website gathering donations to supply every American soldier in Afghanistan that wants them their own 'protective' Karma Beads. Between 11:45 and 12:15 at the Dallas/Ft.Worth Airport, Cheryl, aided by daughter Samantha and niece, Randi and other family members will be distributing 200 Dougie's Karma Bead bracelets to military personnel as they board the plane to fly off to war in Afghanistan.
A year and a half ago, PFC Matthew (Dougie) enlisted in the Army and has been in Afghanistan with the Tenth Mountain Infantry for over a year. Cheryl had bought him a bracelet made with "karma beads" and a tiny peace symbol to wear as a symbol of faith and hope. To her surprise, PFC Matthew started wearing it everyday and kept telling his mother how much he believed in the power of karma and that he believes that it is what has been keeping him and his troops safe.
In a fire fight, PFC Matthew's karma bracelet broke. Immediately after the beads broke, his platoon's fortunes started to go awry, taking on casualties and injuries. The message from the men in his platoon to Matthew was clear and stern, "Dude, you gotta get your karma beads back, your Mom needs to send you another bracelet. We all feel safe when we are around you when you have that darn bracelet on and while she's at it do you think she could send us all one?"
Cheryl has since set up a non-profit organization collecting donations to manufacture and ship these karma beads to ANY U.S. soldier free of charge.
The black and brown colored beads signify protection and balance, and attached to each bracelet is a small metal peace sign. Any magic in the beads is in their power to boost the faith and a protective confidence of the wearer, a very real positive effect on soldier's moral and attitude, as demonstrated by the Tenth Mountain Division.
A website dedicated to US soldiers and about the Dougie's Karma Beads program is at www.dougieskarmabeads.com
