Moore Insights on Memorial Day

This week's lessons in leadership come from one of my most influential mentors, my wife Beth. She is a Community Team Captain at The Home Depot where she works, leading teams of Home Depot volunteers to care for their communities on their day's off. News of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was less than hour old when she received a call from her store asking for her time and energy to serve on the Team Home Depot first response team. A total of five teams were formed representing the greater Dallas metroplex. 

The following is a re-post of her Facebook column she started called Moore Memories, where she shares some of her stories of the team's experiences there.

"Moore Memories, May 27, 2013

I know today is set aside for those who have served and died in the guarding of our freedom, and for what makes this land amazing, and to all those that I know who have given their time and lives to do that...gratitude will never be enough. On this day, this year, I wish to include some folks that wish they could be doing their daily lives, but have answered the call instead, to do what needs to be done today and going forward.....

Moore memories....
I saw heroes of every branch of law enforcement, state police entities and security hunker down and worked 20 hr days. They worked and checked and guarded areas that used to be neighborhoods and places of business, now just bits of property being sieved by those who owned them. The firefighters who found folks hurt but alive, and those who hadn't made it, working day after day. There were so many of them from different places, they moved from our Home Depot parking lot to the Target next door, so that all the brethren could be together.
I saw vets and techs work in cold and rain and endless hrs a day, taking care of hurt and frightened animals, in hopes that their owners would be able to reunite with them.
I saw National Guard and Rangers, and Land and AG Deputies coming back from doing jobs most of us could never think of doing...killing animals to put them out of their misery. They showed up day after day and never flinched.

I saw folks in Orange aprons from many other places, stand along side those from Moore, work 12 and more hrs, and strain to take care of a community that needed them to be open 24/7, and they did it with a smile on their faces, and genuine desire to be there.

To all of these and more without titles...you are heroes for this time and event...blessings and honor as well. You are being the best that Americans can be when the call comes to serve...those who have fought for this country would be thrilled.  :-)"

Question: Do you have Moore memories? I would like to hear them if you do.