Home of Bill Wolff, Past Dept of Illinois Commander and Home Front Hero, and Joe Palmer, immediate All-American Past 19th District Commander
VFW
Post 7539All State Post
2011-2012
All-American
Post 2008-2009
Contact
Information:
Bill Bahr, Webmaster,
Public Relations,
CHARACTER COUNTS! Representative, Asst Voice of Democracy Chair, and Asst Adjutant
Email
Click here for telephone numbers of post contacts.
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
7,000+ packages sent to Iraq & Afghanistan as of 12/22/11
To watch a packing session,
click here.
2011-12 Illinois Community
Affairs Record Book, 2nd Place
Buddy Poppy Display Contest
Post Chair: Cliff Hall
2011-2012 State of Illinois Winner
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
2012-2013 Voice of Democracy Winner (Lake Park HS):
1st Place: Christopher Necka
2012-2013
Patriot's Pen Winners (Middle Schools):
3 First Places:
Isabela Sanson (St. Isidore), Morgan E Kelly (Trinity Lutheran), &
Madeline E. Derango (St Walter's)
Program-Start/Departure Times; Assembly usually 30 minutes before.
2013
Jan 12: 19th Dist VOD
Dinner Alta Villa, Addison
Jan 21: Boy Scouts, Sons of American Revolution Merit Badge, Library,
0900-1000 hrs
Feb 17: 19th Dist, Wood Dale
Feb 24: 19th Dist Patriot Pen Lunch, Batavia
Mar 9-10: SOT Food Drive, Jewell, 1000-1800 hrs each day
Mar 20: LPHS War & Peace Forum
Mar 23: 19th Dist Swing into Spring /
Poppies Dinner, Addison
Apr 13: Honor Guard, Elevator Union Dinner
Apr 26 Senior Fair, Medinah Shriners Temple, 0900-1200 hrs
Apr 27: Bloomingdale Baseball Assn Honor Guard - Springfield Park, 0930
hrs
Apr 28: Dist Memorial Svc & Membership Awards
May 4: Blood Drive, Fire House (0900 - 1500 hrs)
May 4: Post Blood Drive, B'dale Fire Station, 0900-1500 hrs
May 5: Loyalty Day Parade, Batavia
May 17: Poppy Sales, McDonald's Lake Street, 1630 hrs
May 18 & 19: Poppy Sales, McDonald's Lake Street (May 18: 0840 hrs)
May 19: 19th District Convention - West Chicago
May 25: Memorial Day Practice, 1000 hrs
May 27: Memorial Day, St. Paul's Cemetery, 0900 hrs, Black Ascots,
Gloves; Gazebo, 1100 hrs
May 28: Folds of Honor, Honor Guard, Medina CC, 1000 hrs
Jun 2: Rose Parade, 1200 hrs Gazebo depart, 1230 hrs line-up
Jun 3: Honor Guard, LPHS Graduation
Jun 7: Roselle Cruise Night Honor Guard, 1800 hrs
Jun 16-19: State Convention
Jun 21: Chicago Standdown
Sep 7: Septemberfest
Sep 14: Vet Clinic, Trinity Lutheran
Nov 4: VA Lecture, Alexian Brothers Senior Home
Dec 14: Post XMAS Party, Trinity Lutheran
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 Veterans Discounts
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 Salvatore Franzese, RIP
WWII - Deceased:
September 2012
Click for Echo Taps, Danny Boy, and Amazing Grace
using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Gazebo Ceremonial Site, 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
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
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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