Mooresville, NC (May 19, 2009) – Osborne “Obie” Oakley is more than just a volunteer. The former Green Beret thinks really big when helping out military brethren. Twenty years ago, he and two friends raised the money to build the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial in Charlotte’s uptown Thompson Park. He's chaired boards and he's been a prime force behind the Carolinas Freedom Foundation, which puts on the yearly Veterans Day parade. In 1999, after Hurricane Floyd swamped Eastern North Carolina, and his “band of brothers” from the N.C. National Guard's 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) helped with recovery efforts. They did the same in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina rolled through in 2005. And last year, the brothers raised money to send supplies to ... FULL STORY »