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Post 7539All-State Post 2007-8
Contact
Information: Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Quartermaster, Public Relations/Community Affairs Officer,
Voice of Democracy Chair, & "Bugler," tel: 630 307-3634
Email
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
Patriot Pen Winners:
Pauline R. DeJesus (St Matthew), Zak Cain Nixon (St Matthew), and
Kaitlyn E.D. Kesler (Trinity Lutheran)
Beloved Comrade
Jeffrey Kufel, RIP
Deceased: December 5,
2007
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Jan 26 Bill Wolff Candidacy Fundraiser:
Addison Post 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Feb 14 Don Caduto Wake in Arlington Heights
Feb 21 Meeting place: Fire Department
Mar 15 Color Guard for Elevator Constructors
Union (Hyatt Rosemont)
Apr 4 Welcome Comrade Sean
Grimes Home from Iraq
Apr 19 Fund-raiser for Bill Wolff,
Glendale Heights Post, 6 pm
Apr 27 District 19, 100% Brunch;
Memorial Svc 11 am, Warrenville Post
May 4 Batavia Loyalty Day May
Day parade
May 7 LPHS 7:15 am to noon; Vets to
speak in Katherine Steinberg's Classes
May 16-18 Poppy Days
May 25 Medinah Christian Honor Guard:
10:30 am
May 26 Memorial Day Ceremony - 8:30 am St. Paul
Evergreen Cemetery
Jun 1 Rose Parade, Gazebo: 12:30 pm; parade starts 2 pm.
Jun 26-29 VFW State Convention
Jul 27 Post picnic @ Ted's
Aug 1 Honor Guard at Roselle
Library: show up at 9:30 am
Aug 2 VFW District Meeting at
Montgomery Post, Bfst 7:30 am - Noon
Sep 6 Septemberfest Parade/Booth:
10:30 am Yellow Scarf
Sep 7 Armed & Ready Naperville Post
3873; 10:30 am
Sep 13 Cantigny Revolutionary War Reenactment &
Safety Day: Carpool
Sep 19 POW/MIA Day
Sep 20 Membership Kick Off Dinner; Warrenville
Post 8081, 6pm
Sep 27 VFW Breakfast for Blue Star Families -
Armed Forces Breakfast
Sep 28 Bloomingdale Walk-A-Dog-athon
Oct 4 National Home Bus Trip
Villa Park Post 2801 Bus leaves post at 5am
Oct 21 Character Counts! Honor Guard, Old
Town Gazebo, 7 pm, Yellow Scarf
Nov 11 Veterans Day, 11am St. Paul's Evergreen
Cemetery
Nov 16 District Meeting Villa Park Post 2801; 1 pm
Nov 29 Snowman Crossing (XMAS tree decorate)
B'dale Library, 10 am
Dec 10 Hines VA Hospital Visit, B'dale Library 5:30 pm
Dec 19 XMAS Party, Addison VFW, 7 pm
Please help Commander Joe meet his goal of sending out
1000 care packages this year.
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501 Packages Sent to Iraq & Afghanistan in 2006
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Veterans Information
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Join?
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What is a Vet?
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Mothers' Day Virtual Flowers
Post Officers Post History X Sheet Post Pictures Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
Paul
Powell Scholarship Essay Contest
Patriot's Pen Essay Contest
Veterans Tribute Contest
Humor
Our friends @
Batavia Cares
Bloomingdale-Roselle Rotary CHARACTER
COUNTS!
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.
Adopted Home of A Company, 1-64th Armor Battalion
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.
"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...."
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