Ronnie & I have been showing our appreciation to our troops overseas by donating our left over wood from our red, white and blue, Gerry Gessie signature model Heritage "Little One" Guitar to this wonderful organization which makes pens for our soldiers.  Please, show your support for our sons and daughters who proudly serve their country.  
We need YOU to get involved and help us fund, produce and ship custom handwriting pens to our Military Servicemen and Women serving Overseas.  More than just saying thank you or I support our Troops, SHOW them you care and have some fun making Freedom Pens with your friends and family!

Click on www.freedompens.org for more information about this organization.  
Donations can be made via pay pal to sales@freedompens.org.  What Freedom Pens would like for you to do is the following:  If you have relatives or friends that are in the military, any branch, that is stationed overseas, contact them and have their immediate Commander e-mail jackie@freedompens.org with the following information:  The Commander's rank, the Commander's name, the name of the Commander's Unit, the Commander's APO address and the number of pens he or she is requesting.  The only requirement is that the pens be given to the serviceman and servicewoman and not sold.  Kindly mention that you heard about this wonderful Project from Joe Kelly and his friend Gerry Gessie.

The Freedom Pens Project was started by Keith Outten of Sawmillcreek Woodworkers Forum (www.sawmillcreek.org) and is supported by word workers across the country.  The goal of the Freedom Pens Project is to place a custom made pen into the hand of each of our servicemen and women overseas. 

To date, over 130,000 pens have been shipped and received since February 2004.

 'GREAT NEWS'  You will now have an opportunity to 'see' and/or 'buy' a pen from Gerry (he has dubbed "Guitar wood for Freedom") at his Shows or contacting him by phone or email.  Each pen is $15.00 with  $10.00 being donated to the Freedom Pens Project and the rest covering wood shipment fees, postage and handling).  These pens are handcrafted by our friend, Joe Kelly (a 38 year veteran), who lives in Louisiana.