Gog bless you

--- Chris Willis <ronin913@...> wrote:

> Len will happily keep Sifu Al in my thoughts and
> prayers. He was good friends with my late friend and
> teacher Sifu Joe Clarke. Sifu Clarke always spoke
> very highly of him.
> Chris Willis
> Lorain, Ohio
>
> LEN <lenyo11@...> wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 05:44:18 EDT
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Prayer Chain for Sifu Al Dacascos
>
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>
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:21:41 -1000
> From: "Melveen"
>
>
> My dear friends, relatives, acquaintances and fans:
>
> I humbly come to all of you in this time of need of
> prayers for my
> fiance' Al Dacascos. He is in a very grave
> situation right now and
> got badly injured while training in Yemen which is a
> "third world"
> country just outside of Saudi Arabia. At this
> moment, he is unable
> to move and needs to be taken to the nearest
> physician to take care
> of his physical problem. While training the
> security in one of his
> student's schools in Yemen, he heard a loud pop and
> realized that he
> had severly damaged his hamstring tendon which ran
> down his backside
> to his thigh thererfore causing him to be unable to
> walk or move.
>
> Right now, he is under heavy sedation of pain
> killers and refuses to
> go to a hospital there knowing how bad the hospital
> is there. I'm
> sure that his friend Samir is finding ways to
> evacuate him out of
> there as soon as possible. So far, I have had two
> emails from Al and
> they are all "in danger" messages to me saying that
> men there all
> carry Ak-47 rifles and knives with them wherever
> they go in that
> city. It is dangerous for Americans to be about and
> apparently he is
> in a very dangerous situation right now. I have
> heard only once from
> him within the three weeks he'd been gone and await
> his reply as to
> what I can do from this end. His children are all
> alerted and also
> his Black Belt's schools all over the country. I
> was hoping to have
> a sort of "relay" in receiving him from country to
> country by these
> schools and get him home or to the nearest hospital
> such as Germany
> were one of his sons resides so that he can get
> immediate attention
> to his wound.
>
> I ask you to please pray for him and write your name
> so that I know
> you have received this chain of prayer for Al. He
> will in time know
> that we all have prayed for him.
>
> I share this personal plea with all of you even
> though I know it's
> private...but knowing how much you all love him and
> respect him, it
> is only proper that I do this from someone who has
> loved him for 45
> years and intend to marry him at the very date that
> we planned:
> August 19, 2006.
>
> Thank you, mahalo a nui loa, maramng salamat po,
> gracias, doh je,
> domo arigato, gratia, malo le lei; faafetai!
>
> "Our precious Lord, we humbly come before You to ask
> for Your Divine
> blessings upon Sifu Al Dacascos and place your hands
> of healing right
> now upon his head right down to his feet and to the
> tips of his
> fingers but mostly at the area of which he is
> suffering right now.
> We ask for forgiveness for our sins and ask you for
> comfort on his
> behalf and bring him home safely as we have been
> asking you to do
> also for all our troops fighting out there so far
> away from home. We
> love You and know that You love us and especially Al
> through all his
> accomplishments in the Martial Arts world that he
> has achieved. He
> has taught many students throughout the world and
> they themselves
> have excelled highly in the teachings of this
> masterful art. You are
> the only hope we have to ask to help us and our Sifu
> and Grandmaster
> Al Dacascos to come together as one very soon. We
> need him home on
> his homeland and safe where we surround him with our
> aloha and
> comfort. His journey will be rough, we know that,
> but all we ask is
> that you embrace him in every step of the way closer
> to home. We say
> this in your name, Jesus Christ. Amen.
>
> 1. Melveen Leed - Kane'ohe, HI
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