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Click the links below to find out more about what you've enjoyed on The Dave Nemo Show:
Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA)
GHSA is a nonprofit representing the stae and territorial highway safety offices that implement programs to address behavioral highway safetyissues. You heard Johnathan Adkins on The Dave Nemo Show discussing the GHSA report entitled “Curbing Distracted Driving: 2010 Survey of State Safety Programs," which can be found by clicking here.
Robert Klara
Longtime magazine editor and writer Robert Klara has made a specialty of obscure, forgotten, or overlooked facets of American hisory. You heard him discuss his new book on The Dave Nemo Show: FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, A Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance, the first book to tell the story of the train that carried Franklin D. Roosevelt's body to its final resting place.
Coalition for a Prosperous America
The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is working for a new and positive U.S. trade policy that delivers prosperity and security to America, its citizens, farms, factories and working people.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is the leading worldwide professional association dedicated to education, research, and the advancement of the supply chain management profession. With over 9,000 members globally, representing business, government, and academia from 63 countries, CSCMP members are the leading practitioners and authorities in the fields of logistics and supply chain management.
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
The national collection illustrates and invites research into United States philately and postal operations. Click here for their page dedicated to the Railway Mail Service.
Dave Martucci, Vexillogist
Learn about the history of our Star Spangled Banner, what makes a good flag (and a bad one) and much more here.
CITA - International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee
CITA is an international not-for-profit association that represents all types of organisations and stakeholders (government, private sector, dedicated inspection centres, garage-based test centres and test equipment manufacturers) who share a common interest in exchanging information, developing best practices and draft international standards in the field of road vehicle inspection.
David P. Colley
David P. Colley is a full time freelance writer based in Easton, Pa. specializing in military history and military affairs. Colley’s books have won recognition and acclaim. You'll remember his appearances on The Dave Nemo Show where he has discussed his books relating to World War II include Decision at Strasbourg, Safely Rest, Blood for Dignity, and Road to Victory: The Untold Story of the Red Ball Express.
Armchair General Magazine
ACG and ACG online feature a unique, interactive editorial that invites the reader to decide the course of action in challenging historical scenarios, to step into the shoes of a battlefield commander. Leading historians and contributors lend integrity and credibility to this fresh presentation of historical and contemporary events.
The Moving Wall , Touch the Wall , and The Virtual Wall
"The Moving Wall" is the half-size replica of the Washington, DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial and has been touring the country for more than twenty years.
The Atomic Experience and Atomic Veterans
Our mission is limited specifically to saying "Thank You" to the service members exposed to the effects of radiation contamination between 1945 and 1963 (Atomic Veterans).
**Be sure to listen to Dave Nemo's fascinating interview with Atomic Veteran Gary Thornton which aired live on 5/21/09. CLICK HERE for a link to the audio file. You will be shocked as you hear Mr. Thornton recount his experiences.**
Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization. Since its founding in 1985, it has pursued a single mission – providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.
The Jefferson Highway
The Jefferson Highway was the first transcontinental road to traverse the North American continent North and South and possibly the First Dedicated International Highway in the world. Conceived at a meeting in New Orleans in 1915, the highway was dedicated in 1919. Its Northern end was to be in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, then running 60 miles (96 kms) to the U.S./Canadian border, traveling another 2200 miles (3540 kms) through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and ending in New Orleans, Louisiana on the southern coast of the United States.
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is America's independent, non-partisan advocate for overburdened taxpayers. NTU mobilizes elected officials and the general public on behalf of tax relief and reform, lower and less wasteful spending, individual liberty, and free enterprise.
Truckers Against Human Trafficking
Human trafficking, a term for modern-day slavery, is a $32 billion worldwide industry with more than 27 million people enslaved. It has been reported in all 50 states and the number of victims in the U.S. is estimated in hundreds of thousands. This website has been set up to enable truck drivers and other travelers to learn what you can do to help stop this atrocity.
Transport for Christ
To provide an effective ministry to truck drivers throughout the world wherever there is a significant trucking industry.
Kyle Petty Charity Ride
Annual cross country motorcycle ride to benefit Victory Junction Camp for chronically and terminally ill children.
Get Out of Our House
Get Out of Our House is a plan to remove the career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans.
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
The National Park Service is implementing a national Underground Railroad program to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.
Freight Transportaton Research Associates
With over 75 years of combined experience in the transportation industry, FTR has led the way in its approach and methodology to forecasting. FTR's work is highly respected and used extensively throughout the industry. You heard discussion of analyses published in FTR's Transportation Fundamentals.
Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the thoughtful utilization of energy resources to help ensure improved domestic and global energy security and stable prices for consumers. The Dave Nemo Show has had CEA guests speak about Low-Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS). For more information, you can also visit this CEA website: SecureOurFuels.org
Jason Emerson
Information about Jason's historical research and writing projects, which focus on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln and his family. You heard him discuss his book, Lincoln the Inventor, on The Dave Nemo Show.
The Tax Foundation
The mission of the Tax Foundation is to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of government. From its founding in 1937, the Tax Foundation has been grounded in the belief that the dissemination of basic information about government finance is the foundation of sound policy in a free society.
FairTax
The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend on new goods or services, not on what we earn. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system.
Grace on Wings
Provides charity air ambulance services within the United States and is based out of the Indianapolis International Airport.
Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is looking for volunteer truckers who would like to participate in this very patriotic event - including the escort of the wreaths as they leave Maine for their eventual destinations on the headstones of our service men and women.
Honor and Remember
Mission: To create, establish and promote a nationally recognized flag that would fly continuously as a visible reminder to all Americans of the lives lost in defense of our national freedoms. All Military lives lost not only in action but also in service, from our nation's inception.
2 Dogs 2000 Miles
There are many cancer foundations which work towards finding a cure, and while we applaud their efforts, we want to know what’s causing it. The funds raised from this cross-country walk will finance the first ever nationwide epidemiological canine cancer study.
Highway Workplace: The Canadian Trucker's Story
A concise, visually appealing overview of Canada's early roads and truckers, Canadian trucking today, trucking stories, art and culture--even a virtual tour of the anatomy of a big rig.
Truckercise
Truckercise + a healthy diet + proper rest = lower health cost.
Dispatch Me Home: The Story of an American Trucker
Dispatch Me Home was written so that we could revisit, recreate, and enhance the image of the American trucker who drives our highways and byways 24/7. We want to give him a renewed swagger in his step. If there was ever an American original, it was the American Truck driver.
Convoy for a Cure USA and Convoy for a Cure Canada
All-female convoy for breast cancer awareness.
Honor Flight
Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. We transport our heroes to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at their memorials.
All American Beef Battallion
Our vision is to support the troops fighting the war on terror while promoting American Beef. We can do this as an industry by having steak feeds for deploying troops and at their homecoming.
Diabetes Diet Information from Debbie Latham
We offer diabetes solutions for the Commercial Driver. In fact, this website was developed with you in mind. We realize it is difficult, if not impossible to attend diabetes classes with your schedule. Therefore, we hope to bring the information to you.
How Americans Can Buy American
Supporting American-Made Products and Services from American-Owned Companies
Library of Congress--Veteran's History Project
The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect and preserve stories of wartime service.
The primary focus is on first-hand accounts of
U.S. Veterans from the following wars:
- World War I (1914-1920)
- World War II (1939-1946)
- Korean War (1950-1955)
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Persian Gulf War (1990-1995)
- Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)
Driving the Dixie
Find out more about the Dixie Highway's history and about the efforts to bring this incredible road from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Of Mexio to prominence.
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