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All State Post
2011-2012
All-American
Post 2008-2009
Contact
Information:
Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Public Information/Relations,
CHARACTER COUNTS! Rep, Asst Voice of Democracy Chair, and Asst Adjutant
Email
Help your local VFW help the community.
We...
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Ship packages monthly to servicemen overseas
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Provide Christmas gifts to
Hines VA Hospital patients
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Participate in color/honor guards and local parades
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Perform memorial services at cemeteries
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Support the WWII Veteran Honor Flight
program
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Offer assistance to servicemen on active duty
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Offer Patriot Pen and Voice of Democracy student scholarships
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Support Scout of the Year and Teacher of the Year programs
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Organize Flag Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day programs
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Provide lectures at the invitation of local schools
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Provide American Flag disposal services
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Run special projects, eg, helped supply bathrobes to Illinois VA
hospitals
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Alert our
community to where veterans can seek help for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) and Suicide Prevention. Dial 9-1-1 in case of emergencies!
PTSD Locator and
Directory for specialized treatment
As State Commander, Comrade Bill Wolff led the effort to raise $40,800 to supply
2700 bathrobes to Illinois VA Hospitals in 2011.
For our continuing post project, please help Bill send out lots more troop care packages this year.
Support Our Troops
Info
8,100+ packages sent to Iraq & Afghanistan as of 11/29/13
To watch a packing session,
click here.
2011-12 Illinois Community
Affairs Record Book, 2nd Place
Buddy Poppy Display Contest
Post Chair: Cliff Hall
2012-13 State of Illinois Runner-up
2011-12 State of Illinois Winner
2011 VFW National Convention:
“DIRECTORS
AWARD”
Category 2 – Memorial or
Inspirational Displays
2010-11 State of Illinois Winner
2009-10 District Winner,
3rd in State
2008-9 State of Illinois Winner
2013-2014 Voice of Democracy Winners (Lake Park HS):
1st Place -
John Tasch (also District 19 winner);
2nd - Kayla Ryndak; 3rd - Daniel
Kennedy
2013-2014
Patriot's Pen Winners (Middle Schools):
3 First Places:
Christine D Fasana of St Walters; Jacob P Ebert
of Trinity Lutheran; Josephine M Belliveau of St Isidore
Program-Start/Departure Times; Assembly usually 30 minutes before.
2014
Jan 11: Voice of Democracy Awards Dinner: Alta Villa, Addison
Jan 26: Patriot Pen Dinner
Feb 8: VOD Dinner in Springfield
Feb 23: Honor Guard for Gymnastic Meet, 1315 hrs, Johnston Rec Center
Mar 15: Honor Guard for Elevator Union Dinner, Rosemont Hyatt; 1745 hrs
Gazebo depart
Mar 22: Buddy Poppy Dinner
Mar 26: LPHS War & Peace Forum
April 25, Senior Day; 0900-1200 hrs, Medinah Shriners
April 26, Color Guard at Springfield Park 0900-0915 hrs, yellow ascots
May 4: Loyalty Day Parade, Batavia; 1300 hrs
May 16: Poppies on corner of Lake Street and Bloomingdale Rd. Meet
at McDonalds at 1600 hrs
May 17-18: Poppies at Jewel 10-1400 hrs, Walmart 9-1400 hrs; also, St.
Isidore, St. Walter, and Trinity with church approval.
Sat: 0900-1200 Schick & Gary
May 18, District 19 meeting at Batavia Post, 1100 hrs
May 24: Practice for Memorial Day at St. Paul Cemetery, 0900 hrs
May 25: Possible Color Guard at St. Paul Church, 1000 hrs. Joe Franzese, please
confirm
May 26: Memorial Day; 0930 hrs (be there at 0830) St. Paul Evergreen Cemetery; followed by Gazebo
ceremony, black ascots
June 1: Rose Parade, Jerry Bertand, Meet at Roselle Radiator Shop by
McDonald's NLT 1230 hrs
Jun 6: Honor Guard, LPHS Graduation, COD
June 12-15: VFW State Convention, Springfield
July 17 Post Meeting at Bloomingdale Fire Department, 1900 hrs
Sep 20: Veterans Clinic, Willow Creek Community Church, 0830-1430 hrs;
Exhibitor Registration Form
Armed Forces Breakfast
for Blue Star Families
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 Hines VA Hospital Map
Patriot's Pen Essay Contest
Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
St. Paul's Evergreen Cemetery
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 John Ross, RIP
World War II, Army, Deceased:
26 February 2014
Click for Echo Taps, Danny Boy, and Amazing Grace
using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Gazebo Ceremonial Site,
Cmdr John Ross Cemetery Bench, Veteran
Grave-marker,
& Flag Box
To Our Veterans, We honor, We remember ("Mansions of the Lord"): www.angelfire.com/ny5/ItisPeke/VDay.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
World War II, J. Maxwell Edmonds, epitaph on Second Division memorial, Kohima,
Burma, 1944
"When you go home, Tell them of us, and say -- For your
tomorrow, We gave our today."
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."
LTG Hal Moore and Joe Galloway,
"We Are Soldiers Still":
"What all of us know in our hearts is that we are soldiers
still. Some of us revisit the battlefield in nightmares. Some of us
wear scars, visible and invisible, that mark us as
changed men who walk unseen among our neighbors, who have never known what it is
like to hold a dying boy in their arms and watch the life fade from his
questioning eyes."
Iraq quote from Jacob B. Schick, Cpl, USMC, wounded 20 Sept 2004 (Alive
Day [anniversary of a very close escape from death] 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...." "No One Does More For Veterans!"
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."
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