Saluting the Warriors

Shortly after Pearl Harbor the Japs came to the Philippines. 

“We were told we could each have one suitcase, loaded into trucks and driven down out of the mountains to Santo Thomas University in Manila.” 

And that was home for my Dad’s family for the next three years.

It was their hardship, displaced from the beautiful mining town of Baguio to slow starvation in a Japanese internment camp, that led Grandma and Grandpa to buy a farm in north Missouri twenty years later as a family haven should something like WWII ever happen again.

As a kid there was no place on earth I was happier than on that farm. Surprisingly, I took the road less travelled and “became a farmer.” But I never felt the haven connection so strongly as during the COVID phenomenon. 

Land is the antidote to stress. Caretaking, husbandry and stewardship are the opposite of destruction, isolation, and fear. Vets get it.

I bless COVID for propelling so many back to the land just as I bless WWII and all wars since for the family havens and precious farm experiences born of those contrasts.

We can’t appreciate closets until we’ve lived in a house without them. 

War victims and veterans appreciate peace and security much more than the rest of us can. They have a passion that goes beyond happy childhood memories.

As a boy who, like my father, lived overseas under another flag, and remembering my Grandmother tearfully describing the descent of the Stars and Stripes along with the Filipino flag there in Manila, I have a deep love for our flag and what it represents.

The United States was conceived as a haven from tyranny and represents that still to the entire world.

This Memorial Day Featherman honors veterans with a special tribute. We are proud to introduce the Freedom Series Lifetime Warranty Chicken Ship as our latest mobile chicken tractor. It is built to liberate cooped up chickens and frustrated growers tired of fighting predators and endless piles of coop poop. 

The Chicken Ship is designed to provide a fresh salad bar, a safe haven, and a daily fertilizer dose while relieving the grower of concerns over the integrity and longevity of his chicken tractor. Daily shifts with supplemental feed groom and supercharge the pasture solar panel to build soil faster than any other manner possible! 

Chicken Ships make daily deposits in your soil bank creating generational wealth for the grandchildren. That adds up to security.

That’s why we call it the Freedom Series. That’s why we etched the Stars and Stripes on the back panel along with the words, “O’er the Land of the Free.”

It is our privilege to offer Veterans a special discount on this and all Featherman products. 

On this Memorial Day we salute the warriors for peace, the warriors for family, the warriors for food security, the warriors for building soil, the warriors for Freedom.