The P.O.W. NETWORK has received several complaints regarding an individual/group named 

Ms. Regina Moore, Lycos Support, Strike Force Freedom Cry.

We suggest before contributing money or working with this group, you check with those that have tried to work with her in the past as noted below. Please DO NOT contact  us as we have NO personal knowledge of the events as they unfolded. 

NOTE: ACCUSATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE THAT 

POW/MIA FREEDOM FIGHTERS  - JEN BAUER

MIGHT BE A PART/PLAY A PART IN THE BELOW SCAM. 

BE ADVISED THAT LADY JEN/JEN BAUER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BELOW SCAMS. BAUER'S GROUP HAS BEEN A LEGIT ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION FOR MANY YEARS AND HAS WORKED WITH COL. TED GUY, OPERATION JUST CAUSE, ROGER HALL AND THE FOIA LITIGATION FUND, AND THE P.O.W. NETWORK WITHOUT EVER COMPROMISING HERSELF OR THE POW ISSUE. SHE AND THE ORGANIZATION HAVE NO, REPEAT -  NO, CONNECTION WITH REGINA MOORE OR STRIKE FORCE FREEDOM CRY.

I have just recently returned home from Alabama after leaving there Monday, 9/2/02, the day after the first day of the supposed Walk, which was only 4.2 miles.

The following is what happened prior to 9/1/01.

I arrived in Alabama Thursday evening, stayed in Tuscaloosa, after driving from Denver, Colorado, to be there on Friday morning because I was told that the Fox TV station from Birmingham wanted to do an interview with Ms. Moore and myself to talk about the Walk, which I came to find out was not true. So that day Friday I arrived in West Blocton and went to Ms. Moore's home to  introduce myself and to see what if anything else had to be taken care of prior to Sunday's kickoff.

My main concern was to go over the route, at least for the first week of Walkin' mileage, and to make sure that it was a safe route and to see if
there had been any person to person (face to face) contact with those who would be helping out along the route.  It never got done and the route had not been checked to assure it's safety for the persons Walkin', or to assure any accomodations along the Walk.  Reason for this is that Ms. Moore has no working vehicle to get anywhere and also two young kids that would have to be taken along.  Another thing is that there was no "staff" in West Blocton for SFFC to assist in the project.

The entire project was being run out of a bedroom where the computer and phone are and all contacts were either being done via the computer or by phone, so there was never any face to face meeting with anyone to try and secure any/all supplies, support vehicles or others that would be Walkin'.

I was told that there were going to be others coming in from other States to participate on the Walk and they would be arriving on Saturday evening, well one couple, a Brother Vet and his wife from Florida did arrive in their RV of which I was told was going to be used as a support vehicle for the entirety of the Walk.  After meeting with them on Sunday morning they did not realize that the Walk was going to be taking at least two plus months to accomplish and also that Ms. Moore's two girls were going along and that they would have in the RV the majority of the time while on the Walk, they were not prepared to be "babysitters" or to be there for the two plus months.  There presented a problem.

Another thing was that, even though I was allowed to stay at a motel in a  town, about 15 miles from West Blocton, I had to drive back and forth daily to Ms. Moore's home to try and see if we could get out to recon the route, never happened, the interview with the TV station never happened.  I spent Friday and Saturday mostly wasting time because nothing could be done. 

There was no other support vehicle that was going to be available at all, there were no supplies, ie: bottled water, medical supplies, food, lodging
during the Walk, fuel for support vehicles, etc. made available because of having to wait for a letter with somone that was providing a 501(c)3 tax
number in order to contact organizations about donations, so none of that was prepared.

Saturday evening I had to take Ms. Moore and girls to a location about a 60 mile round trip to pick up a banner, a rather nice one, that was donated to  SFFC for the Walk.

On Sunday morning I again had to go to Ms. Moore's home to take her to her mothers house so that she could borrow her vehicle in order to be able to have a vehicle to get from the City Hall/Sheriff's Office back to her home to clean up and get back in time for the kickoff.  Before hand since the people from Florida, whom at that time I was led to believe were going to be on the entirety of the Walk, and myself with Ms. Moore I asked that we all go in my vehicle to at least go and check the mileage that we were going to do for that day and also to drive ahead and double check the route and mileage for the following three days at least.  The plan was to try and get in at least 13 miles a day.

Well after marking the first day's 4.2 miles we drove along the route that she, and I was led to believe - her staff - had planned out.  It was a route
that would most definitely cause a serious incident with anyone trying to Walk the route.  It was a very narrow two lane road with no shoulders and
very little area for any type of support vehicle to be able to be at the ready if needed.  Also there was no recon that had been done to mark the
mileage for any particular day of Walkin' and no contacts along the way for rest stops, lunch breaks or accomodations for the Walkers.  Her idea, since we would be in the area, was for her and her children to return to her home every evening, but no concern for anyone Walkin'.  Not good, I was not feeling comfortable and neither was the Brother Vet from Florida especially when I told him that I would have to be coming back to CO on the 12th of Sept for about a week and then return to the Walk, so he would most likely be the "Road Boss" and that I would inform him of what had to be taken care of during my absence, he was very surprised.

Anyway, on Sunday, while waiting for the time to begin the "ceremonies" a contingent from Mississippi, consisting of two Veterans, arrived, but they
were only there for that day and would only be able to Walk just a short  distance, about a third of that days scheduled mileage, if that.

Other than that there were no others that had arrived to commit themselves to do any part, much less the whole, Walk.  So there we were, Myself, Ms. Moore, the Brother from Florida for the entirety of the Walk.  Others from Mobile, AL had arrived but they to were only there for that one day and two of them, one a young lady dressed rather nicely but not dressed to Walk who did do some Walkin' even though wearing heels, were there to give a short speech/presentation and then back home.

The only other two Veterans (?) from West Blocton, were the Mayor and the Sheriff, but they rode in their air-conditioned cars only thru town, a
rather short distance, and then they were gone.  When we got to the main road, there were just four of us Walkin', two young men from Mobile and myself and the Brother Vet.

Before I forget, during the Walk thru town, Ms. Moore, during the first two to three blocks had to drop out due to not being able to breathe properly
due to lack of exercise and excessive smoking, I know I saw two ash trays in her home on Saturday that were completely full of cigarette butts and ashes that I had not seen on Friday while there.  One of the deputies, that escorted the group thru town was concerned that she was rather close to having a heart attack, and she had to get into the RV in order to keep up with those of us who were Walkin'.

When we got to the highway, we had approx. 1.6 miles to get to that days stop and about halfway there we stopped for a brief break and Ms. Moore decided she wanted to Walk some more.  I mentioned to her that I wanted to make sure she could keep up because of safety reasons we could not have anyone lagging behind and to be sure she could do it.  She said she could but after a short  distance of Walkin' she had fallen behind close to about 50 yards or so, so we slowed down a bit but she could not keep up.

Well enough of that, most of you on this list know of concerns of persons not being able to be healthy enough to Walk any distance, which we do allow persons to do so, but in the areas where safety is not as serious as on the main road, like going thru town is ok, but when one walks just a short distance and is already showing difficulties and is wanting to do in excess of 850 miles, that is not good.

When finished for the day it was obvious that there were only to be maybe just two persons that could do any good Walkin' at any certain periods of time.  No others, neither from out of State or other Veterans from the State of Alabama had shown up to offer any support or to even say that they would be able to paticipate in the days ahead.  The couple from Florida were obviously not impressed with that particular day as well as myself and the lack of prepardeness for the rest of the Walk.

Another thing is that I put in a lot of time trying to make sure that most of all of the prepardeness was supposed to be accomplished before the start and was not done, therefore making me rather supicious of this project being accomplished with additional help.

And not only was time involved in this, I also put in alot of effort to make sure that there would be some sort of way to try and get monetary efforts to help out on this Walk by having 288 t-shirts printed and 144 caps embroidered with the SFFC logo to have donations made available for any expenses that could occur during the Walk.  I was told by Ms. Moore that "everyone really loves the products and most likely all will be gone on the first day and would there be any chance of having more products done right away" so as to have more ready for the days ahead as we got into other States.  A total of three shirts were dispensed for donations that Sunday, $45.00 for the shirts with an additional $5.00 donation, three more shirts were dispensed as well as one cap of which those monies were not received, so only a grand total of $50.00 have been reimbursed.  Supposedly somone had sent a $100.00 check for four shirts and a cap but I never saw it, but also those products were not sent or dispensed.

A total of $3,329.46, of which $3,000.00 came from monies borrowed from one of my daughters, was put out of pocket from this family in order to have the products available for this Walk.

All in all this project was not properly prepared, so I packed up on Monday morning and headed back here to Denver to continue in assisting my wife who is in remission of Stage 3 Melanoma Cancer, having been made a "FOOL"  of, and out not only of monies for products but also all fuel monies and lodging that were incurred to and from.

I have spoken my peace!!!

Thank You for those you of whom have had the patience to read this message in it's entirety.

Sincerely,

Richard Campos
aka Marines6568@aol.com
Former Vietnam Marine Combat Veteran

p.s.  Notice how the website for SFFC is no longer available for viewing.

To all those who put so much time, effort and money into this utterly shameful 'WALK', there are those of us out here who have a conscience and WANT to help you re-coop your donations, your losses in what we ALL felt was a worthwhile and worthy, TRUE and HONEST venture for our Veterans and our POW/MIAs.  I HOPE AND PRAY with the sincerety of my heart, that one and ALL who ever donated to this March, to Ms. Regina Moore, to STRIKEFORCE FREEDOM CRY, and any all other things related to this same person and her ventures, will PERSONALLY EMAIL ME WITH YOUR INFORMATION !!  HELP US HELP YOU!!!  We are TRYING in a valiant effort to help regain the losses of all.  But we can't until people come forward to us with who they are, how much they donated etc.  
So please, if you too, THOUGHT, along with many many others of us, that this woman and her WALK were honest, true and real, and donated ANYTHING to it/her, PLEASE COME FORWARD SO THAT WE MIGHT PUT TOGETHER A LIST and help one and all re-coop your losses and find JUSTICE IN AMERICA AND REGAIN THE TRUST THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE WORTHY OF!!!!!

Please, email me:  dweller@neo.rr.com          or Roger Helbig:   helbig@california.com

Regina Moore and Strike Force Freedom Cry.  Moore used over two dozen e-mail addresses and a number of web sites to promote her "walk for veterans rights" that got all of 4.2 miles before fizzling out.  Since Moore made such an extensive effort to solicit donations for this walk under false pretenses; Strike Force Freedom Cry was not even a "real" organization, let alone tax exempt or non-profit and Moore never was ready to walk 850 miles (see attached photo), we are sure that there are a number of veterans and military families who were taken in by this scam.  Contact me if you know of anyone who made a donation via either PayPal or a mailed check to the West Blocton, Alabama PO Box.  We need to determine how much money this scheme netted and shut it down permanently.  Thank you.

Roger W. Helbig
Lt Col, USAF Res (ret)
rhelbig@california.com
Coalition of former Moore associates who want to see justice

I think that this "non-organization" also was linked to your web ring.

From: "*Guns* Gunny Di'ane" <dweller@neo.rr.com>
To: "P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Re: links to a scam artist 
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:38:56 -0400
Organization: MilitaryMomsOnline

I was just curious if you are aware that there are several direct links from Ms. Regina Moore's Strike Force Freedom Cry website which has scammed hundreds if not thousands of Veterans and Military Families out of hard earned monies and equipment, supplies, etc. over and over again with this website?

 I am just concerned that she not ruin the popular and wide reputation of further good and just causes as she has so damaged others. We are a group seeking to restore the good name of our U.S. Veterans and POW/MIAs and seeking justice for what this woman has done all in the name of them, how she has continued to get away with furthering her financial cause thru misuse of veterans' names and websites w/o their consent, knowledge or  approval.

We are Veterans trying to find some Justice for Veterans here.

Diane Weller (Military Moms Online/VeteransRights USAF Ret. Law enforcement disabled)
Lt. Col. Roger Helbig (USAF Ret.) 
Linda Shot
Vikki Wells  Universal Angel Foundation
Richard Campos  who was there and saw it all. 

Donations and contributions have not been refunded and Mr. Campos is one sorry Veteran who was scammed out of over $3300.00 in embroidered tshirts and caps for the walk that never was. 
        
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It is with utter heartbreak that I am sorry to announce to one  and all that all the sites, operation Christmas love 2002, the honor to our fallen military killed in, since, and during 9-11-2001 and ongoing have been deleted and shut down by TRIPOD/LYCOS/ANGELFIRE due to someone complaining they didn't like the site http://militarymomeone.tripod.com/crimeandshame/

THERE FORE LYCOS AND TRIPOD/ANGELFIRE DECIDEDLY DELETED ALL THE SITES.

THEREFORE OPERATION CHRISTMAS 2002 AND HONORING OUR FALLEN MILITARY NO LONGER EXIST.  Alot of hard work, time and effort, to not mention the research of listing all the names of each and every dead soldier, sailor, marine, airman over this past yr. is gone now.  Just like their lives, their honor has now been taken too.

I'm sorry. I  cannot continue.

My sincerest apologies to the families of our fallen heroes, our wonderful project to help aid our deployed military overseas for the Christmas season.....gone, it's all gone, destroyed, thank you Ms. Regina Moore and Strike Force Freedom Cry, you ran a scam for money in the 
name of all our military, our veterans, our pow/mias, and you got  rich.  We try to do something TRUE AND JUST and we get is shut 
down. JUSTICE IS BLIND. AND ALL OF THIS IS FOR NOTHING PEOPLE.  Our men and women ARE dieing in vain. And the military 
families are right, they ARE being forgotten. It's more a crime and shame to expose fraud, honor the lives of our military who've died, try to 
help our deployed enjoy a Christmas season w/o their families, than to run a scam for money ......  and this IS America!  what a shame...  
now all our Honor is as dead as our men/women. Thank YOU Ms. Regina Moore, Lycos Support, Strike Force Freedom Cry scam of all scams, may the Almighty find your mercy and forgiveness.

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I built the site and all.  I went to tripod to try to delete the file they found objectionable about SFFC only to  discover they had taken ALL the sites and destroyed them. Not just the  one, but all of them. It said that if I went into and deleted the one file  ....... well there was no file to delete. I didn't back up the other sites cause they were only threatening to shut down the one exposing the scam. I don't understand why my exposing a scam with the cooperation of those who's words appeared on the site as proof it was a scam was shut down.  Yet a site such as SFFC can stay up and running and soliciting funds which aren't going toward any Veteran organization or cause, but instead into a lazy, overweight woman's pocket. 

Do you know that we have now located HUNDREDS of links and sites in her name and that of her 'cause'?  Aol, yahoo, doteasy.com, angelfire.....she's more outreaching than any of us ever imagined. and uses so many alias it isn't funny.

The government officials were beginning to back the care package operation. Quantico and the Pentagon, VFW and National Guard.....and now I stand in utter humiliation.  All the while she goes on enriching her pockets. She charged one Veteran $600 for a website 
and refuses to give him access to the site so that he may take off links to her SFFC site. Yet tripod/lycos/angelfire just destroyed 3 yrs. of work that I have done in a moment.

With Much Love and Many Prayers,

Diane M. Weller  *guns*

GunnyDi@neo.rr.com 

Ok, we got a rude and heavy hit this am. Geez, you'd think today was Monday, wouldn't ya? (although here lately I'm tending to look at all of them as Mondays!) lol

Once again, God has sent Angels out of thin air. Rob LeClair and HolyBears.com purchased us http://www.militarymomsonline.com"
for the next 2 yrs. (God willing I live another 2 yrs. of this.....lol) Now Rob is also wanting to get us a host for our domain, even though I tried to deny him and tell him enough was already enough, he and Holy Bears.com have already so kindly donated so much of themselves and their products to our Cause for Honoring our Fallen Military.

So, for tonight, I'm going to take a 'chill pill' as all the kids say these days, maybe play some pogo and lose as usual. lol Hit the haystack early and give it another shot in the am. I know, you all thought old Gunny was a goner huh? rofl Oh well, what in the world would life on the inet be without the Guns Di? (peaceful, bliss, near Heaven.....ok ok, so shut up already!) Thanks to one and all with the encouraging words, the prayers, the hope, and most of all, the kindness of love and all that you give so much of to me and to one another each and every day of your (our) lives.(and to Deb Tenney and all the WONDERFUL ladies and gents at Soldiers Pride, you are all included in our family and don't you EVER forget it!) 

Military Moms Online and Soldiers Pride forever, ONWARD!!!

You ALL mean the most of the mostest and US, like U.S. will not be de-feated. (although we eat alot of  feet!) We will rebuild and pray that they will come forward and help us continue in our efforts to support our military in the manner and ways they so RIGHTLY deserve. Again, to one and all, MY HEARTFELT AND DEEPEST THANKS! ESPECIALLY ROB AND HOLYBEARS.COM AND BJ CHADDUCK WHO PUT UP WITH MY WOEFUL TELEPHONE CALL. LOL GOD BLESS ONE AND ALL AND GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. GOD PROTECT AND KEEP THEM ALL WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE! AMEN.

NOW, let's get back to the war! our men/women need us all and so do our Beloved Veterans! 
Onward and Upward everyone! God is a leading! 

With Much Love and Many Prayers,

Diane M. Weller *guns*

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