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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
VFW
Post 7539
All-State Post
2008-9
Contact
Information: Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Public Relations/Community Affairs Officer,
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.
Aug 8 Hybrid Car Show
(Flag Disposal Booth)
Aug 9
District meeting Villa Park, 1 pm
Aug 15-20 National Convention, Phoenix, AZ
Sep 12 Septemberfest Booth/Parade
Sep 13 Belmont Village Honor Guard
Sep 18 Membership Kick-off Dinner
Sep 20 Dog-A-Thon Honor Guard
Sep 26 Blood Drive at Warrenville Post 7:30-11:30 am
Oct 3 National Home Trip
Oct 10 Honor Guard for Noah Peterson: 1:30 pm at Gazebo
Oct 17 Commanders and Service Officer Meeting, VFW Post 8081
Oct 20 CHARACTER COUNTS! Night Honor Guard 6:30 pm (yellow scarf)
Oct 24 Service Officers Meeting in Decatur
Oct 24 Boy scouts, flag ceremony, Library 1:00pm
Nov 10 School Program @ Roy DeShane 8:45am-3:15pm
Nov 11 Vet Day Ceremony @ Library Gazebo 10:30 am
Nov 11 Flag fund raiser, 3:30 pm-5:00 pm Lake & Bloomingdale
(McDonald's 3:00 pm)
Nov 15 Dist. Meeting @ Glendale Hts
Nov 28 Snowman X-ing @ Library 9am
Dec 9 Hines Hospital Trip @ Library 5:30pm
Dec 12 Christmas party @ Addison Post 7pm
Jan 9, 2010 19th
District Voice of Democracy Dinner @ Alta Villa, Addison 7pm
Jan 30, 2010 19th
District Patriots' Pen Dinner, Batavia VFW 7pm
Feb 20, 2010 Lexington Ice Cream Social 12:30 pm
Feb 21, 2010 19th District Meeting Batavia VFW 1pm
Mar 13, 2010 19th District Poppy Celebration 7pm
Mar 13 Elevator Union Color Guard 6:30 pm
Apr 17, 2010 19th District Swing into Spring (Commander & President's Roast)
Villa Park VFW 7pm
May 16, 2010 19th District Convention Villa Park 1pm
Jul 12 Medinah Country Club Color Guard
Jul 31 2010 State Commander's Homecoming, Indian Lakes Resort
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 X Sheet Post Pictures Voice of Democracy Essay Contest
Paul
Powell Scholarship Essay Contest
Patriot's Pen Essay Contest
Veterans Tribute 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.
Note: there seems to be a problem using Internet Explorer.
Other browsers ok. If you want to
donate while using Internet Explorer,
click here.
Support Our Troops
Info
501 Packages Sent to Iraq & Afghanistan in 2006
To watch a packing session,
click here.
Beloved Comrade
Ray Klus, RIP
Deceased: July 27,
2009
Click for Echo Taps and Danny Boy
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.
"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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