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President - Dan Caruthe309-738-54
kodiaksite@yahoo.coVice President-Terry Lyn
barb.terry.lynch@gmail.cSecretary-Ron Rom
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CHapTER 29
A messAge from yourpresidentA friend and business associateRalph Harker passed recently.When I read his obituary and
discovered he was a Koreanvet I was disappointed I didnot know of this fact untilit was too late. Because hewas quiet and unassuming bynature his military service wasnot something he shared. Hispassing gave reason to wonderhow many brother Vietnamvets are still holding back from“going public’ about their
service.
Please get vets that aren’tmembers to look into ourChapter. That would be good forus. If they ‘go public’ and sharesome of their experiences-goodor bad-it may lighten the loadfor them, and that would begood for them. We’ve all lostfriends and family over the
years. The one common threadis once your gone it is too latefor a lot of things.
Let’s talk about representationand participation in Chapter299. I have been introducinga pretty fair amount of new items and changes
(sometimes substantial,oftentimes controversial) tohow the Chapter operates.The use and implementation
of Event Planning Guides(EPG) has been consuming alot of volunteer man-hoursto date. This will continue,until we get all committees(there are about 30 to date)on board. The EPG process isinstrumental in establishing aworking, balanced budget. Thecommon thread throughout theupgrade procedure is a plan is
formulated, rough drafts areprepared, meetings are held,until a document is established.The document is then takenbefore the Board of Directors(BOD) where a motion is madeto approve, then a second, thendiscussion. When this processis completed the BOD makes adecision by voting.
In the event the idea is sound,it will be moved up to the nextlevel, which is approval, by theMembership. The procedure of a motion, second and discussionis same as the BOD procedure.
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INSIDE: Minutes and Motions; Page 2 • pRESIDENT’S mESSagE; pagE 8 • aRMY HeRo and nFL Legend; Page 9 • www.IGNORED LOSSES OF THE VIETNAM WAR - TApS REpORT - upcOMING EVENTS
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit
violence on those who would harm us.”George Orwell
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MINuTES OF VVA299 MEMbERSHIp MEETING-MAy 21ST, 2013
Meeng Called to Order by
President Dan Carothers.
The Pledge of Allegiancewas recited followed by
moment of silence,
emembering our fallen
nd missing Brothers and
isters. Thirty-six Members
were present. Also, a
moment of silence was
sked for the Tornado
icms and families in
Oklahoma City.
President’s Comments –
Dan conrmed a quorum of
8% of the membership was
present.
wearing in ceremony
was presented for
newly elected NaonalConvenon Delegates
nd other ocers not
previously sworn in.
Dan called for adopon of
he agenda, Bill Albracht
moved, moon seconded
nd approved.
President Dan requested
pproval of the Minutes
or the April Membership
Meeng, as presented in
he STS. Larry Tschappat
moved, moon seconded
nd approved.
The Board of Directors
t their May meeng
pproved all special Event
Planning Guides presented
tonight previously.
President Dan presented
the Budget Proposal for2013-2014. Bill Albracht
moved, moon was
seconded to approve.
Discussion followed and
moon was approved with
one abstenon.
Honor Flight – Mike Haney
announced that the Honor
Flight on August 29th
would have only Vietnam
Veterans for guardians. We
will sponsor 3 guardians,
with a drawing to be held
at our June meeng for
those posions.
Commiee Reports
Membership – Larry
Tschappat reported
387 members and 42
AVVA members. Calling
reminder for meengs
for local members will be
changed to a standard
message sent out the
Friday before meengs.
The Event Planning Guide
for the Membership was
presented. Gary White
moved for acceptance,
moon was seconded, and
moon was approved.
Grants and Appropriaons
– President Dan requested
approval of the Review
Planning Guide for
$10,000 budgeted. Larry
Tschappat moved, moon
was seconded, discussionfollowed. Moon was
approved. Terry Lynch
reported on approval for
the following expenditures:
Child Abuse Council
Lifesaver Program, Sue
Swisher ($100); Quad Cies
Alliance for Immigraon
($200); RI/Milan School
District 1st Day Fund
($300); and Silver Star level
of $100 to RI Class of 1964
for the school’s Vietnam
Memorial. Terry reported
total expenditures to date
of $1,150.
President Dan presented
the Planning Guide for the
Administrave Overheadand Review Planning
Guide for approval.
Larry Tschappat moved,
moon was seconded
and discussion followed.
Queson was called and
a count of the votes was
called for. Moon passed
with 23 yeas, 6 opposed.
President Dan called
for a moon to accept
the Catering Commiee
Event Planning Guide.
Ray Hamilton moved,
moon was seconded
and discussion followed.
Moon was approved.
Honor Guard – Andy
Andersen reported on
past and upcoming even
a very busy upcomingschedule, to be publishe
in the STS.
Vet2Vet – “Frenchy” Eav
reported next visit to Io
City would be June 12th
meeng at Machine She
Treasurer’s Report –
Mike Haney reported
the new format balance
sheet, and Dan explaine
new format. Discussion
followed regarding som
asset valuaons. Preside
Dan recommended
approval be postponed,
pending valuaon of
assets on loan from theFederal Government an
compleon of other are
that are a work in progr
New Business
President’s Award –
presented to past Presid
John Katherman by
our new President Dan
Carothers.
Old Business
Hog Roaster – Ray
Hamilton reported on th
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CONTINUED FROM
PAGE ONE
If the Membership by a majority voteat a meeting with an approved quorum
does vote in favor, the motion andpolicy or procedure becomes part of ouoperating procedures.
Hope you all had a great Memorial Day.See you at the June Membershipmeeting.
Dan Carothers, President Chapter 299Call sign………….Thunderball
MINUTES... CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO
ecent events over the past weekend. The potenal
uture funcons with Cordova Drag way & other locaons
hey own will be a work in progress. The commiee
will work with them to try to improve the process. Ray
ecognized all the workers who helped out over the busy
past weekend. He especially thanked Bob Jackson, who
was feeling poorly the whole weekend, but stuck it out
hrough to the end.
Good of the Order
im Kerr announced the upcoming NAACP Annual
reedom Dinner would be held on June 22nd this year at
Rock Island Abbey Staon. Tickets are $50 each and Jimhas them for purchase in advance.
Bill Albracht won the $25 drawing and oered to
purchase adult refreshments aer the meeng at
Roosters. Life Membership drawing was won by Paul
ingard. Meeng was adjourned.
Respecully submied,
Ron Roman, Secretary
VIETNAM HAIKu
Tin roof Vietnam 68.
Monsoon rains did create.
Noise.
Peaceful Noise. Rain.
Quieng Noise. Rain.
Smells, hot, steamy.
Gives way to cool. Rain.
Gives way to fresh. Rain.
Renewal. Rain.
Tin roof rain.
Sleep.
Oh blessed sleep.
With n roof rain.
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A FINAL TOAST FOR THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS –y Bob Greene
• This week, the few remaining
Doolile Raiders will reunite.
• In 1942 the 80 men bombed
okyo in death-defying mission,
etaliaon for Pearl Harbor.
• A case of 80 goblets is
rought to their annual reunions.
When a Raider dies a cup is
pended.
• This year, there are four le.
hey’ll toast the Raiders with
ged cognac, and end reunions.
t’s the cup of brandy that no one
wants to drink. On Tuesday, in
ort Walton Beach, Florida, the
urviving Doolile Raiders will
ather publicly for the last me.
hey once were among the most
niversally admired and revered
men in the United States. There
were 80 of the Raiders in April
942, when they carried out
one of the most courageous and
eart-srring military operaons
n this naon’s history. The mere
menon of their unit’s name, in
hose years, would bring tears to
he eyes of grateful Americans. -
Now only four survive.
Aer Japan ‘s sneak aack on
earl Harbor, with the United
tates reeling and wounded,
omething dramac was needed
o turn the war eort around.
ven though there were no
riendly airelds close enough
to Japan for the United States to
launch retaliaon, a daring plan
was devised. Sixteen B-25s were
modied so that they could take
o from the deck of an aircracarrier. This had never before
been tried -- sending such big,
heavy bombers from a carrier.
The 16 ve-man crews, under
the command of Lt. Col. James
Doolile, who himself ew the
lead plane o the USS Hornet,
knew that they would not be
able to return to the carrier. They
would have to hit Japan and
then hope to make it to China
for a safe landing. But on the
day of the raid, the Japanesemilitary caught wind of the plan.
The Raiders were told that they
would have to take o from
much farther out in the Pacic
Ocean than they had counted
on. They were told that because
of this they would not have
enough fuel to make it to safety.
- And those men went anyway.
They bombed Tokyo, and then
ew as far as they could. Four
planes crash-landed; 11 more
crews bailed out, and three of
the Raiders died. Eight more
were captured; three were
executed. Another died of
starvaon in a Japanese prison
camp. One crew made it to
Russia.
Beginning in 1946, the surviving
Raiders have held a reunion
each April, to commemorate
the mission. The reunion is in a
dierent city each year. In 1959,
the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a
gesture of respect and gratude,
presented the Doolile Raiders
with a set of 80 silver goblets.
Each goblet was engraved withthe name of a Raider.
Every year, a wooden display
case bearing all 80 goblets is
transported to the reunion city.
Each me a Raider passes away,
his goblet is turned upside down
in the case at the next reunion,
as his old friends bear solemn
witness. Also in the wooden
case is a bole of 1896 Hennessy
Very Special cognac. The year
is not happenstance: 1896 was
when Jimmy Doolile was born.There has always been a plan:
When there are only two
surviving Raiders, they would
open the bole, at last drink
from it, and toast their comrades
who preceded them in death.
As 2013 began, there were ve
living Raiders; then, in February,
Tom Grin passed away at age
96.
What a man he was. Aer
bailing out of his plane over a
mountainous Chinese forest
aer the Tokyo raid, he became
ill with malaria, and almost died.
When he recovered, he was sent
to Europe to y more combat
missions. He was shot down,
captured, and spent 22 months
in a German prisoner of war
camp.
The selessness of these men,
the sheer guts ... there wasa passage in the Cincinna
Enquirer obituary for Mr. Grin
that, on the surface, had nothing
to do with the war, but that
emblemazes the depth of his
sense of duty and devoon:
“When his wife became ill and
needed to go into a nursing
home, he visited her every day.
He walked from his house to the
nursing home, fed his wife and at
the end of the day brought home
her clothes. At night, he washed
and ironed her clothes. Then
he walked them up to her ro
the next morning. He did tha
for three years unl her dea
2005.”
So now, out of the original 8
only four Raiders remain: Di
Cole (Doolile’s co-pilot on t
Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edw
Saylor and David Thatcher.
All are in their 90s. They hav
decided that there are too fe
them for the public reunions
connue.
The events in Fort Walton Be
this week will mark the end.
has come full circle; Florida ‘nearby Eglin Field was wher
Raiders trained in secrecy fo
Tokyo mission.
The town is planning to do a
can to honor the men: a six-
day celebraon of their valo
including luncheons, a dinne
and a parade.
The men have decided that
aer this nal public reunion
they will wait unl a later da
-- some me this year -- to g
together once more, inform
and in absolute privacy. That
when they will open the bo
of brandy. The years are ow
by too swily now; they are
going to wait unl there are
two of them.
They will ll the four remain
upturned goblets.
- And raise them in a toastto those who are gone.
Submied by Chief Master S
Dan Johnson
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Heroes of tHe VietnAm generAtion BySENATOR JAMES WEbb VA.he rapidly disappearing
ohort of Americans that
ndured the Great Depression
nd then fought World War
is receiving quite a send-
from the leading lights of
he so-called 60s generaon.
om Brokaw has published
wo oral histories of “The
Greatest Generaon” that
eature ordinary people doing
heir duty and suggests that
uch conduct was historically
nique.
Chris Mahews of “Hardball”
s fond of wring columns
raising the Navy service of
is father while casgang his
wn baby boomer generaon
or its alleged soness and
ack of struggle. William
Benne gave a startling
ondescending speech at the
Naval Academy a few years
go comparing the heroism
f the “D-Day Generaon” to
he drugs-and-sex nihilism of
he “Woodstock Generaon.”
And Steven Spielberg, in
romong his lm “Saving
rivate Ryan,” was careful
o jusfy his portrayals of
oldiers in acon based on
he supposedly unique nature
f World War II.
An irony is at work here. Lest
we forget, the World War II
eneraon now being lionized
lso brought us the Vietnam
War, a conict which today’s
most conspicuous voices by
nd large opposed, and in
which few of them served.
he “best and brightest” of
he Vietnam age group once
made headlines by casgang
heir parents for bringing
about the war in which they
would not ght, which has
become the war they refuse
to remember.
Pundits back then invented
a term for this animus: the
“generaon gap.” Long,
plainve arcles and even
books were wrien examining
its manifestaons. Campus
leaders, who claimed
precocious wisdom through
the magical process of
reading a few controversial
books, urged fellow baby
boomers not to trust anyoneover 30. Their elders who
had survived the Depression
and fought the largest war
in history were looked down
upon as shallow, materialisc
and out of touch.
Those of us who grew up, on
the other side of the picket
line from that era’s counter-
culture can’t help but feel
a lile leery of this sudden
gush of appreciaon for our
elders from the leading lights
of the old counter-culture.
Then and now, the naonal
conversaon has proceeded
from the dubious assumpon
that those who came of age
during Vietnam are a unied
generaon in the same sense
as their parents were and
thus are capable of being
spoken for through these
ckle elites.
In truth, the “Vietnam
generaon” is a misnomer.
Those who came of age during that war are
permanently divided by
dierent reacons to a whole
range of counter-cultural
agendas and nothing divides
them more deeply than the
personal ramicaons of the
war itself. The sizable poron
of the Vietnam age group
who declined to support the
counter-cultural agenda,
and especially the men
and women who opted to
serve in the military durin
the Vietnam War, are quit
dierent from their peers
who for decades have clai
to speak for them. In fact,
they are much like the Wo
War II generaon itself. Fo
them, Woodstock was a s
show, college protestors w
spoiled brats who would
have beneted from havin
to work a few jobs in orde
to pay their tuion, and
Vietnam represented not
intellectual exercise in dra
avoidance, or protest marbut a baleeld that was
just as brutal as those the
fathers faced in World Wa
and Korea.
Few who served during
Vietnam ever complained
generaon gap. The men
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includes 1 house drink of you
choice. Present this coupon w
ordering.
Compliments of
Bud Caneld!
Oer expires 10/30/13.
ignored Losses of tHe VietnAm WAr
By Louise Esola
One crisp fall morning in1987, at the dedicaon
of the Philadelphia
Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, Thomas
Corcoran was nearly as
heartbroken as he was
n June 1969, when two
uniformed men knocked
on his door in Torresdale.They told him that his
on Patrick M. Corcoran,
19, had been killed, and
ost at sea.
The harsh nality of it
ll, as 646 Philadelphia
amilies know well,
never went away for this
grieving father.
Crowding the sidewalks
near Penn’s Landing
n 1987, many of
hose families stood at
he newly dedicated
memorial to see the
names of their boys,
their brothers, their
fathers etched in stone.
Patrick Corcoran’s namewas not there.
While creang the
memorial, volunteers
relied on Defense
Department casualty lists
to nd local kids killed in
Southeast Asia. However,
those lists of more than58,000 Americans did
not include the 74 sailors
who died on the USS
Frank E. Evans when it
collided at 3:14 a.m. June
3, 1969, with an aircra
carrier o the coast of
Vietnam. The smaller
ship was torn in two, itsbow sinking, in three
minutes, into the South
China Sea.
The headlines of that
war’s only shipwreck
were jolng. Three
brothers from a small
town in Nebraska were
killed. A Navy chief would
survive, only to learnthat his son had not.
Seaman Corcoran was
asleep in his rack, along
with 31 shipmates. Only
six in that compartment
would survive. Of the 74
dead, only one body was
recovered.
Dubbed among the
“workhorses” of the
Navy, the 25-year-old
Evans had already served
during World War II and
the Korean War. In 1969,
it was supporng U.S.
forces from o the coast
of Vietnam.
That May, Corcoran and
his shipmates spent 10
days in the hellish heat
and humidity, loading
hundreds of 50-pound
shells to re in support of
Marines on the ground.
When Pat Corcoran
graduated from Fathe
Judge High School in1968, the dra was
breathing down his ne
Hundreds of Philly kid
had already come hom
in boxes. The Navy, it w
said, was the safest be
So the kid who used
to deliver pizzas andnewspapers enlisted,
eventually boarding th
Evans, which had alre
collected four bale
stars for acons durin
Vietnam. Within week
Patrick Corcoran was
dead, a casualty of the
Vietnam War - thoughsome disagreed.
The accident occurred
outside the ocial
“combat zone,” a
designaon that ignor
the fact that Seventh
Fleet ships steamed
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n and out of that war
one almost weekly.
That designaon kept
he Evans casuales o
he Vietnam Veterans
Memorial when it was
unveiled in Washington
n 1982.
Five years later, in
Philadelphia, Tom
Corcoran couldn’t nd
his son’s name. The
grocery store butcher, 59,
ought to have his son
ecognized, and the next
year, Patrick M. Corcoran
was etched in the stone.
t was front-page news.
There is a poignant
photograph of Tom
Corcoran standing alone
n front of the memorial,
wiping his tears with a
handkerchief and leaning
on a wooden cane. A
eporter said the father
“stretched out his right
hand and caressed the
leers with his ngers,
as one would stroke a
child.” Tom Corcoran died
in 2006.
Unfortunately, the
Wall in Washington
sll doesn’t recognize
Corcoran and his 73
shipmates, ve of them
Pennsylvanians. The
USS Frank E. Evans
Associaon, a group
of veterans and family
members that once
included Tom Corcoran,
has peoned the
government for years.
Leers have been
wrien, bills introduced
in Congress. The
secretary of the Navy has
supported the eort, but
the Defense Department
connues to deny them.
In Philadelphia, the
memorial associaon
recently posted short
biographies of the men
on the wall. Patrick
Corcoran was not
menoned.
Their war is not over.
From Larry Tschappat
ignored Losses of tHe VietnAm WAr
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AVVA meeting
AVVA hater meengs are held on the 3rd Tesda of the month at 6:30m at the Rok Island Arsenal
afeteria. We wold like for o to join s with or ideas and thoghts. come join s in arades, heling
with hog roasts and other harit events along with the memers of the VVA hater. We look forward to
seeing o!
HEROES OF THE VIETNAM
GENERATION CONTINUED
FROM PAGE FIVE
who fought World War II were
heir heroes and role models.
hey honored their father’service by emulang it, and
argely agreed with their
ather’s wisdom in aempng
o stop Communism’s reach in
outheast Asia.
he most accurate poll of
heir atudes (Harris, 1980)
howed that 91 percent
were glad they’d served their
ountry, 74 percent enjoyed
heir me in the service, and
9 percent agreed with the
tatement that “our troops
were asked to ght in a war
which our polical leaders
n Washington would not
et them win.” And most
mportantly, the casgaon
hey received upon returning
ome was not from the World
War II generaon, but from
he very elites in their ageroup who supposedly spoke
or them.
Nine million men served in
the military during Vietnam
War, three million of whom
went to the Vietnam
Theater. Contrary to popular
mythology, two-thirds of
these were volunteers, and
73 percent of those who diedwere volunteers.
While some aenon has
been paid recently to the
plight of our prisoners of
war, most of whom were
pilots; there has been lile
recognion of how brutal the
war was for those who fought
it on the ground.
Dropped onto the enemy’s
terrain 12,000 miles away
from home, America’s cizen-
soldiers performed with a
tenacity and quality that may
never be truly understood.
Those who believe the war
was fought incompletely on a
taccal level should consider
Hanoi’s recent admission that
1.4 million of its soldiers died
on the baleeld, comparedto 58,000 total U.S. dead.
Those who believe that it
was a “dirty lile war” where
the bombs did all the work
might contemplate that is was
the most costly war the U.S.
Marine Corps has ever fought:
ve mes as many dead as
World War I, three mes
as many dead as in Korea,and more total killed and
wounded than in all of World
War II.
Signicantly, these sacrices
were being made at a me
the United States was deeply
divided over our eort in
Vietnam. The baby-boom
generaon had cracked
apart along class lines as
America’s young men were
making dicult, life-or-death
choices about serving. The
beer academic instuons
became focal points for
vitriolic protest against
the war, with few of their
graduates going into the
military. Harvard College,
which had lost 691 alumni
in World War II, lost a total
of 12 men in Vietnam fromthe classes of 1962 through
1972 combined. Those classes
at Princeton lost six, at MIT
two. The media turned ev
more hosle. And frequen
the reward for a young
man’s having gone throug
the trauma of combat was
to be greeted by his peers
with studied indierence
outright hoslity.
*****submied by Greg
McCluskey – Part Two to
appear next month
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MEMbERSHIp REpORT JuNE 2013
As of May 27th, the Chapter has 388 members.
Our newest annual member is Tim Bolyard, and
Ron Camper is our newest Life member. Welcome
aboard, guys. Associates of VVA Chapter 299
currently have 41 members.
Being today is Memorial Day, I’d like to menon
Duane Winkler, who joined VVA in 1985 and was
a Charter member of our Chapter in 1987. At theme, he was already suering from the eects of
Agent Orange. Unfortunately, Duane was one of the
original Air Force “Ranch-hands” who loaded the
various defoliate chemicals into the sprayer aircra.
Daily contact with these chemicals ensured him
numerous health problems early on aer leaving
Vietnam, and Duane died at the young age of 47,
looking twice his age and in a lot of pain.
As it stands, his name is not on The Wall, but it
should be because his fate was sealed for an early
death before he ever set foot on that Freedom Bird
to come home. His early eorts to get the VA to
recognize those health problems associated with
Agent Orange exposure helped all of us whose
health was aected by it later in life. With that
closing thought, I ask that you please remember ou
comrade Duane Winkler in a prayer once in awhile.Thank you.
Respecully,
Larry Tschappat - Membership Chairman
UPCOMING EVENTS – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED1. VET 2 VET VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO VISIT
HOSPITALIZED VETERANS – CALL FRENCHY TO
VOLUNTEER AT [563] 386-1696
2. HOG ROASTER – This is our largest Chapter
fundraiser – Volunteers ALWAYS Needed – Call Ray
Hamilton at [309] 523-3259
3. FLAG DAY is June 14th
4. AMVETS ANNUAL 4th of July Parade in East
Moline. Chapter 299 will have a presence at this
event. Take a few hours of your Independence Dayand show support for the Chapter Color Guard and
Hog Roaster. Our guys “sucked it up” last year in
100+ degree weather. A good plan is: have Grandma
follow you and drop o your car very near the
parade route in early morning.
Grandma returns you
and the Grandchildren
to the parade route
that aernoon, you
aend with Grand
kids, you all get a
lifeme “memory”,
Grandma gets a break
from all of you, and
you walk a city block
to your previously
parked car.
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tApsFollowing is a list of funerals at which military honors were performed by the combined eorts of the VVA Chapter
299, VVA Chapter 776, and the MAVA (Mexican American Veterans Associaon) Honor Guards. Included in the list
are the dates of the funerals, names, ages, and branches of service in which these veterans served. Any chapter 2
members are designated by bold leers and underlined.
da al na va A Bach vc
Marh 29, 2013 Rihard Seidel 75 u. S. Nav (cold War & Vietnam Era veteran)
Aril 01, 2013 Jennifer Marn 41 u. S. Arm (persian Glf veteran)
Aril 12, 2013 Jerome Harer 82 u. S. Arm (Korea War veteran)
Aril 16, 2013 charles Naert 64 u. S. Arm (Vietnam War veteran)
Aril 16, 2013 Daniel Moore 66 u. S. Arm (Vietnam War veteran)
Aril 17, 2013 William Hghes 90 u. S. Nav (World War II veteran)
Ma 09, 2013 Frank Marnez Jr. 68 u. S. Nav (Vietnam War veteran)
Ma 21, 2013 David Kendall 67 u. S. Nav ( Vietnam War veteran)
Ma 31, 2013 Joseh Rangel 73 u. S. Marine cor (Vietnam era veteran)
ne 04, 2013 Edgar G. Skaggs 65 u. S. Nav (Vietnam era veteran)
THANKS FOR THE SuppORT
It was with gratude that Andy Andersen
and Bob Brooks presented a cercate of
appreciaon to Julie Morse manager of Aldi
Foods, Inc. of Davenport, Iowa on April 12,
2013.
Julie and her sta have always supported
our veteran’s community for over six years,
ensuring that our needs were met, somemes
even with unmely requests. Julie is always
willing to go the extra mile to help. Chapter
299 is very grateful for her support.
From Bob Brooks
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