310 Dispatch a Veteran Coming Home from Battle Be Made to Feel Alone and Unappreciated! June 2021 Washtenaw Co., Michigan
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Never again shall 310 Dispatch a veteran coming home from battle be made to feel alone and unappreciated! June 2021 Washtenaw Co., Michigan Editor’s Note: The 310 Dispatch reaches readers in digital as well as print formats. Readers can access the digital format at vva310.org. There, you also find the latest information about current events. A unique feature this month is the Memorial Day celebration (see page 11). Special recognition goes to the well-prepared rituals and the carefully maintained Memorial grounds. -- Paulo-Juarez Pereira, Editor--and the Dispatch Team What’s New . 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By Stan Harrison It is advertised as a family-friendly event, like an “old-fashioned church Our own LTC Charles Kettles, picnic” (except we will have beer..... whose name our Chapter proudly don’t tell Rev. Bull). bears, will be honored again. Until next time, stay proud! The Ann Arbor VA has changed ******** its name to the LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center. The formal ceremony will take place Chaplain’s Corner on the hospital grounds on Friday, And again, “I WILL BE A FATHER June 18th, at 1300 hrs. VVA 310 June 2021 TO HIM AND HE SHALL BE A SON By Rev. Gordon Moore TO ME”? And when He again I enjoy seeing the pictures from brings the firstborn into the Mars and the rising earth from the world, He says, “AND LET ALL THE moon taken from the Chinese rover ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.” to see all the darkness around our And of the angels He says, planet, and yet from our planet “WHO MAKES HIS ANGELS WINDS, there is so much light out in space. AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF Creation is marvelous, with so FIRE.” But of the Son, He says, much to discover, even after all “YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER these years. AND EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS member John Kinzinger is slated I want to talk about the SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS to be one of the speakers. We preeminence of Christ in creation KINGDOM. YOU HAVE LOVED should also give a nod to Rev. Bob as recorded in Hebrews 1: RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED Bull for initiating the name change. LAWLESSNESS; THEREFORE GOD, You can read the story of LTC YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU God, after He spoke long ago Kettles’ actions that resulted in WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE to the fathers in the prophets his being awarded the Medal of YOUR COMPANIONS.” in many portions and in many Honor in the book, “We Answered And, “YOU, LORD, IN THE ways, in these last days the Call” (copies available from BEGINNING LAID THE has spoken to us in His Son, Vice President Vance McCrumb). FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND whom He appointed heir of all The book is made up mostly of THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF things, through whom also He short stories written by Chapter YOUR HANDS; THEY WILL PERISH, made the world. And He is the members of their time in Vietnam. BUT YOU REMAIN; AND THEY radiance of His glory and the Another book that is sure to be ALL WILL BECOME OLD LIKE A exact representation of His of interest is “Sacrifices Not GARMENT, AND LIKE A MANTLE nature, and upholds all things Forgotten,” by John Kinzinger. YOU WILL ROLL THEM UP; LIKE by the word of His power. It contains short character A GARMENT THEY WILL ALSO BE When He had made purification sketches of all 76 men listed on CHANGED. BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, of sins, He sat down at the the Washtenaw County Vietnam AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT COME right hand of the Majesty on Veterans Memorial, as well as TO AN END.” But to which of the high, having become as much the very interesting story of the angels has He ever said, “SIT AT better than the angels, as He struggle to bring the Memorial into MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE has inherited a more excellent being. YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL name than they. On June 13th, there will be an FOR YOUR FEET”? Are they not For to which of the angels did “Almost Flag Day” picnic at the all ministering spirits, sent He ever say, “YOU ARE MY SON, VFW Post 423 grounds on Wagner out to render service for the TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU”? Road. All area veterans, their sake of those who will inherit June 2021 — PAGE 2 VVA 310 DISPATCH NEWSLETTER salvation? 1, 1967. He completed Officer commission (Hebrews 1:1-14). Candidate School at Fort Benning, as a Second Georgia. Lieutenant That last phrase shows that all Second Lieutenant Crane began while serving of creation has as its vision our his tour in Vinh Long Province, in the Korean salvation. Angels are sent to help South Vietnam on May 14, 1968 War. He lead us to Him and His salvation as serving as a Tactical Intelligence continued to servants of God Most High. If that Staff Officer on Advisory Team 52, serve in the doesn’t make us praise His name Headquarters, Military Assistance Regular Army for His goodness toward us, I don’t Command Vietnam (MACV). as an NCO, suppose much will. Lieutenant Crane was flying in a as he was promoted as a reserve Cherish the thought that we helicopter as a special observer officer. Since Korea, Frank served are children of God through the when a flare ignited inside the with the 821st Engineer Aviation redemption brought about by the aircraft causing him to fall from the Battalion at Fort Leonard Wood, shed blood of His Son. aircraft on June 26, 1968. He was Missouri then serving with the Hallelujah, He is risen and is “In-Country” for one month and 11 820th Engineer Aviation Battalion seated at the right hand of the days. at Michigan State University as Father. Praise be to Him. Philip Matt Crane II is survived by a military science instructor. ******** his mother, his wife, and a sister. According to the Battalion History He lived 21 years, 4 months and 27 of the Army ROTC Battalion at Honoring June days. He is resting in Crestwood Eastern Michigan University, “in Anniversaries on the Memorial Gardens in Flint, 1961, he taught ROTC at Eastern Wall Michigan. Philip’s name is listed on Michigan University for four years, the Vietnam Memorial in Ypsilanti where he led the rifle team to the Second Lieutenant Philip Matt Township under Ypsilanti. His championship and served as an Crane II was born on January 29, name also appears on the Vietnam advisor to Arm of Honor Fraternity. 1947 to Mrs. Howard P. Gragg Memorial in Washington, DC on During this time, he accepted and the late Philip M. Crane Panel 54W Line 002. his promotion to Captain even of Ypsilanti. Philip played the __++__ though he was rated number accordion when he was very one on the list to be promoted to small. He played Little League Sergeant Major. He then served Baseball. Philip is a 1965 graduate Major Frank Rudolph Maki as a Company Commander at of Ypsilanti High School where was born on March 13, 1928 in Fort McClellan where his troops he played on the varsity tennis Rudyard, Michigan to Mr. Victor would earn four consecutive Best team, was a member of the varsity and Mrs. Lemple Ann Maki. Frank Company awards.” debate team, and a member of the graduated from Rudyard High Major Maki began his tour of National Honor Society. He worked School before enlisting in the duty in Quang Tri Province, all during