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Home of Bill Wolff, Dept of Illinois Commander and Home Front Hero, and Joe Palmer, National Aide-de-camp and 19th District Senior Vice Commander
VFW
Post 7539
VFW
Post 7539
Contact
Information: Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Public Relations,
Voice of Democracy Chair, & "Bugler," tel: 630 307-3634
Email
Click here for other post contacts.
Please help Comrade Bill Wolff send out lots more troop care packages this year.
Support Our Troops
Info
So far, 1725 packages sent to Iraq & Afghanistan,
averaging 40-45 per month.
To watch a packing session,
click here.
2009-2010 District Winner
2008-9 State of Illinois Winner
Buddy Poppy Display Contest
Post Chair: Cliff Hall
Voice of Democracy Winner (Lake Park HS): 1st Place:
Amanda Sebert
Patriot Pen Winners (Middle Schools):
1st Place: Elizabeth B Arco, Branson R Paul, Colleen H. Ochab
2nd Place: Erica E. Baltmazar, Darcey A Wilkinson, Cassidy J. Henshaw
(All of Trinity except Colleen Ochab of St. Walters)
Program-Start/Departure Times; Assembly usually 30 minutes before.
Click here for 19th District and Illinois
Department Events
Jan 9, 2010 19th
District Voice of Democracy Dinner @ Alta Villa, Addison 7pm
Jan 30 19th
District Patriots' Pen Dinner, Batavia VFW 7pm
Feb 20 Lexington Ice Cream Social 12:30 pm
Feb 21 19th District Meeting Batavia VFW 1pm
Feb 23 SOT Packaging, Fire Station 6 pm
Mar 13 19th District Poppy Celebration 7pm
Mar 13 Elevator Union Color Guard 5:30 pm Gazebo
Mar 20 New Dept Commander Fundraiser, Spaghetti Dinner, Addison VFW, 5-8 pm
Mar 26-28 March Dues Roundup
Apr 17 Salerno's Man of the Year Color Guard
Apr 17 Swing into Spring, Villa Park VFW 2801
Apr 17 19th District Swing into Spring (Commander & President's Roast)
Villa Park VFW 7pm
May 2 Loyalty Day Parade, Batavia
May 5 Veterans Talk, LPHS West
May 14 Senior Fair Medinah Shriners, 9am-12pm
May 16 19th District Convention Villa Park 1pm
May 31 Memorial Day, St. Paul's Cemetery (9:30 am official start) and Gazebo
(11 am)
Jun 6 Rose Parade, 12:45 Gazebo departure, Yellow Ascot
Jun 24-27 State Convention, Springfield
Jul 8 Medinah Country Club Color Guard 11:15 am
Aug 12 (12-15) State Commander's Homecoming Golf
Outing, Glendale Heights
Aug 14 (12-15) State Commander's Homecoming Dinner, Indian Lakes Resort
Sep/Oct TBD Armed and Ready Breakfast, Trinity Lutheran, 8am-2pm
Oct 20 National Home Trip, Villa Park Depart, 5 am
Comrade Sean Grimes and Family on Video for the USMC
All-American Post Nomination Letter: 2008-09 Activities
Hines VA Hospital Visit 12/10/08
Armed Forces Breakfast
for Blue Star Families
Bloomingdale-Walk-A-Dog-athon.org
Memorial Day, 2008
Iraq News from post member Chris Horton, CPT, Infantry
Greetings to the Troops
Hines VA Hospital Visit 12/13/07 w/music
Hines VA Hospital Visit 12/13/07
Snowman's Crossing Tree Decoration 11/24/07
View Commander Joe's Veterans
Day Tribute
View Nathan Bracher's (LPHS) Voice of Democracy First
Place Essay.
Veterans Day, 2007
Post Officers Post History Uniform X Sheet Post Pictures
Paul
Powell Scholarship Essay Contest
Patriot's Pen Essay Contest
Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
IL
Scout Scholarship Humor
Batavia Cares
Bloomingdale-Roselle Rotary CHARACTER
COUNTS!
Challenge to Post Members:
Buy a Blue Star Service Flag and Pin (total $10) for relatives of active
military personnel. Post will pay membership fees for those actively
serving & qualifying for VFW.
Beloved Comrade
Ray Klus, RIP
Deceased: July 27,
2009
Click for Echo Taps, Danny Boy, and Amazing Grace
using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Bench & veteran grave-marker donations.
To Our Veterans, We honor, We remember ("Mansions of the Lord"): www.angelfire.com/ny5/ItisPeke/VDay.html
To Our WWII Veterans, Before You Go:
www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html
Poignant
Photos from Iraq:
www.clermontyellow.accountsupport.com/flash/UntilThen.swf
Iraq Veterans Memorial (Video Tributes):
http://iraqmemorial.org
Honor the Fallen (Locator):
www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html
"Let's Say Thanks!":
Send
a free printed postcard to a soldier serving overseas
Vietnam quote from Dana L. Safford, former Sergeant, USMC:
"For those
who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know."
Iraq quote from Jacob B. Schick, Cpl, USMC, wounded 20 Sept 2004 (Alive
Day Memories):
"When you look at the American flag, what do you see?
You know most people say, "an American flag." OK. I can put you in a
setting that would make your skin crawl. Because you've never been and
seen a national anthem with a bunch of guerneys and wheelchairs and people with
fake limbs and no limbs, burned faces, burned bodies, and seen them salute as
good as they could to the American flag.... The
fight doesn't stop when
you get home. In our cases, it's just begun."
Quote from Chaplain Gregory Todd, speaking at the
Wounded Warriers Ceremony, Camp Lejeune, NC
(Alive Day Memories):
"Today, Lord, we honor those who bear the scars of their
service that testify to their duty in the protection and defense that they have
provided us. We continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in arms,
those who stand the watch and are still in harm's way. Send your angels to
protect them and bring them back to us safely. Amen."
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row...."
-- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
"We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies."
--
Moina Michael, in response
RIP: Army Staff Sgt. Paul M. Latourney, 28 of
Roselle, IL; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment,
1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division,
Ft. Hood, TX; died March 2, 2007, in Baghdad of wounds sustained
when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat
patrol.
Also killed was Spc. Luis O. Rodriguez-Contrera.
"Military honors: On Friday, Aug. 1, members of
Bloomingdale VFW Post No. 7539 served as color guard for a memorial ceremony at
the Roselle Public Library for Army Staff Sgt. Paul M. Latourney, 28, of
Roselle. Latourney died in Baghdad on March 2, 2007. He was killed
when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat
patrol. Among the dignitaries at the ceremony were Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat
Quinn and Roselle Mayor Gayle Smolinski. 'The lieutenant governor gave a
very nice remembrance,” said Bill Bahr, a VFW member from Bloomingdale. 'And
Sgt. Latourney’s mother also gave a short but powerfully touching farewell.'”
Bloomingdale Press, 8/6/08: Sue
Crosson-Knutson.
"Rest easy, sleep well my
brothers.
Know the line has held, your job
is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you
fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell..."
VFW Motto: "Honoring
the dead by helping the living...."
Adopted Home of A Company, 1-64th Armor Battalion
'"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
Bean Navy!! :)
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