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Home of Bill Wolff, Dept of Illinois Senior Vice Commander and Home Front Hero, and Joe Palmer, National Aide-de-camp

Hines VA Hospital Visit 12/9/2009



VFW Post 7539

Bloomingdale, IL 

All-American Post 2008-2009
 

VFW Post 7539 meets the third Thursday of each
month at the Bloomingdale Library, 101 Fairfield Way,
Bloomingdale, IL, 60108-1537.  Meeting is on the lower
level, starting at 7:00 pm and normally lasting
NLT 8:45 pm.  Post Commander is Rick Middleton.   


Cmdr Rick Middleton      Sr Vice Cliff Hall      Jr Vice Chuck Groner     QM Dave Burdick
 

Contact Information:  Bill Bahr,  Webmaster,
Public Relations, Voice of Democracy Chair, & "Bugler,"  tel:  630 307-3634
Email
Click here for other post contacts.

         
 

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. 


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, Addison VFW, 5-8 pm
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 16  19th District Convention  Villa Park  1pm
May 5  Veterans Talk, LPHS West
Jul 12   Medinah Country Club Color Guard
Aug 14  State Commander's Homecoming, Indian Lakes Resort
Aug 28  Armed and Ready

                                     

     

Home of the Brave:  Noah, Shealeigh, and Vets

Veterans Day 2009 Tribute

Comrade Sean Grimes and Family on Video for the USMC

All-American Post Nomination Letter:  2008-09 Activities

Memorial Day 2009

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


  
 



Veterans Information         www.VFWIL.org                www.VFW.org              VFW Mission               Why Join?
                  
Flag Info  
8645 flags disposed    What is a Vet?              Find a VFW Post                    Mothers' Day Virtual Flowers

Post Officers                         Post History                            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

        

Please help Comrade Bill Wolff send out lots more troop care packages this year.
To make a donation to support our troops, please click on Donate button below:
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donate while using Internet Explorer, click here.


                           

Support Our Troops Info
So far, 1725 packages sent to Iraq & Afghanistan, averaging 40-45 per month.
To watch a packing session, click here.




   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

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.



              
  

Arlington National Cemetery

"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

www.vfw7539.org

      
                                            

          

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