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Home of Joe Palmer, 19th District Commander, and Bill Wolff, immediate Past Dept of Illinois Commander and Home Front Hero
VFW
Post 7539All-American
Post 2008-2009
Contact
Information:
Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Public Relations,
Voice of Democracy Chair, CHARACTER COUNTS! Representative, and Asst Adjutant
Email
Click here for telephone numbers of post contacts.
Click here for our Facebook page.
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
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
3,510 packages sent to Iraq & Afghanistan,
averaging 45 per month, as of 12/16/11
To watch a packing session,
click here.
2011 VFW National Convention:
“DIRECTORS
AWARD”
Category 2 – Memorial or
Inspirational Displays
2010-2011 State of Illinois Winner
2009-2010 District Winner,
3rd in State
2008-9 State of Illinois Winner
Buddy Poppy Display Contest
Post Chair: Cliff Hall
2011-2012 Voice of Democracy Winner (Lake Park HS):
1st Place: Danielle Brewer
2011-2012
Patriot Pen Winners (Middle Schools):
3 First Places:
Allison M Spencer (Roselle Middle School), Grace E Horgan (Trinity Luthern), &
Nicholas J Kavouris (St Walter's)
Program-Start/Departure Times; Assembly usually 30 minutes before.
Click here for 19th District and Illinois
Department Events
9 Nov Trinity School Vet Visit, 0830 am
11 Nov Veterans Day; street flags (0800 Dominicks); Gazebo ceremony 11 am; Erikson School
Vet Visit, 1:30-3:30 pm
Nov 17 Monthly Meeting to be held at Bloomingdale Fire Department
Nov 26 Snowman's Crossing, 9 am Library
Dec 15, Hines VA Hospital XMAS Visit, Gazebo Depart @ 5:30pm
Dec 17 Christmas Party, 7 pm, Addison Post
Jan 7, 2012 Voice of Democracy Dinner, Alta Villa, Addison
Jan 28, 2012
Patriot Pen Luncheon West Chicago #6791
Mar 24, Honor Guard,
Elevator Union, Rosemont, Gazebo depart, 5:45 pm
April 14, 2012 Poppy Dinner Addison Post
May 20, 2012 District Convention
Jun 14-17 Department Convention (Springfield)
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 Veterans Discounts
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 Larry Votruba, RIP
WWII - Deceased:
December 2011
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."
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...."
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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