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SANTA ROSA REPUBLICAN WOMEN, Chartered 1945 An Affiliate of the National Federation of Republican Women California Federation of Republican Women, Northern Division, Northwest Region Website ~ www.santarosarwf.org - E-mail ~ [email protected] - Facebook ~ www.facebook.com/srrwf 2015 NFRW Diamond Award Winner Volume 31, Issue 6 June 2016 ANNUAL PICNIC SATURDAY JUNE 25, 2016 at the beautiful home of our member Sandy Metzger, St Helena Avenue, Santa Rosa 12:30 to 3:30 $40 (after June 19 $50) Special Guest Speaker: Melanie Morgan Melanie Morgan, KSRO 1350 News Director and host of “Sonoma County Morning News,” will be the featured guest at our annual picnic on June 25. We’ll have a wide-ranging interactive conversation with Melanie who will touch on all things political. In July she will be broadcasting live from the Republican Convention in Cleveland. Melanie likes to be where the action is. Twice she broadcasted live from Iraq. She covered the student uprising for democracy in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as well as the bombing of the Marine Compound in Beirut in 1983. Recognizing the imminent threat to American interests by terrorists, she went on to co-found Move America Forward, the largest pro-troop, grassroots organization in the US with more than a million members. Melanie is an award-winning radio talk show host, author, columnist, journalist, TV anchor and now News Director. Known for her advocacy on behalf of the American military and defense of the War on Terror, she has been a frequent guest on many cable TV shows, including Fox News, CNN and the BBC. She co-hosted The Brian Sussman and Melanie Morgan Show and was host and/or reporter at KSFO and KGO-TV. She and her husband Jack Swanson live in Marin county and love to spend time hiking the hills of Sonoma County each weekend. Reservations should be made with Nancy Maier, 538-9804 Please mail your check by June 19, 2016 Make your check out to SRRWF and mail to... SRRWF, 1585 Terrace Way #306, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 E-mail - [email protected] - Website - www.santarosarwf.org PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE July & August are down months for our club, thru August 7. Give Rosalie Parks a call & tell her you but we must gear up to help Republican want to volunteer to work a shift - morning, afternoon or candidates in the General Election. Not another evening. We register new Republicans and have the Democrat President for 4 more years! wonderful opportunity to interact with the folks. They Our annual picnic is Saturday, June 25 beginning need to hear the Republican point of view as opposed to at 12:30. It is our yearly fundraiser so bring your spouse, what they read in the newspapers and hear on the liberal a relative, friend or someone you think might like to join TV channels. our club. The food is always delicious and there will be The 2016 Rosters were available at the April & an opportunity drawing for 5 lovely baskets. Our guest is May General Meeting. Those that weren't picked up were Melanie Morgan, host of Morning News. If you have a mailed. If you don't receive yours next week, or have any question you'd like her to address, put that question on a address, phone number or email address corrections, give 3x5 card and bring it to the picnic. She will answer your me a call. We will put out a correction sheet in the fall. questions. Nancy Maier & Orlean Koehle The Sonoma County Fair begins July 22 and runs MEMBERSHIP - Jennifer Delany & Sue Lozano We are very happy to welcome new member Willi Vaughn to Santa Rosa Republican Women Federated. Welcome aboard Willi. We all look forward to our picnic on June 25th at the beautiful home of our member Sandy Metzger. It would be a perfect time to bring a friend or family member to join us. We look forward to visiting with you all and hearing Radio Talk Show Host Melanie Morgan from KSRO. Have a great summer and take care. SRRWF 2016 Officers 2015 STANDING COMMITTEES TABLE OF CONTENTS Co-PRESIDENT AMERICANISM Monthly Meeting Information 1 Nancy Maier Dottie Vonderhaar [email protected] President’s Message 2 707.538.9804 AWARDS Orlene Koehle Nancy Maier 2014 SRRWF Officers and Committees 2 [email protected] 707.539.8393 CHAPLAIN Skeptical Observer/Cartoon 3 Bev Christenson 1st VICE PRESIDENT CFRW AND NORTHERN DIVISION 4 Sandy Metzger HOSTESS Marie Derr Eugenia “Jean” Brown NFRW AND CAGOP 5 2nd VICE PRESIDENT LEGISLATION/OPPOSITION SRRWF Activities/Committee Reports 6 (Membership) RESEARCH Jenifer Delany Edelweiss Geary Membership Form 7 Sue Lazano PARLIMENTARIAN Calendar 8 SECRETARY Rosalie Parks Joan Gatley Insert: Our Supporters Business Cards . VOTER REGISTRATION Elected Federal, State and Local Officials TREASURER Rosalie Parks Andrea Geary [email protected] Information NEWSLETTER (&ROSTER) EDITOR 707.849.1454 Ruth Van Bemmel WAYS & MEANS [email protected] TBA 2 707.888.1765 THE SKEPTICAL OBSERVER Sometimes it is nice to ignore history and after seven days of fighting lost. 80,000 British, and move on. However, at other times it Australian and Indian solders became prisoners of war. is very important to review history 138,000 allied soldiers died in the battle. especially since so many of our schools The Japanese did not treat prisoners of war according nowadays are not teaching history, to the Geneva Convention of 1927. During the Bataan especially if facts are the issue. Death March in the Philippines, 75,000 American and Our illustrious leader, aka Barack Filipino prisoners were marched from the Bataan penin- Obama, recently made a trip to Japan and sula to prison camps. The construction of the Burma- felt the need to visit Hiroshima. He did not apologize for Thailand Railway which was a slave project killed around the atomic bombs dropped on the two Japanese cities but 90,000 Asian laborers and 16,000 Allied prisoners of war. he did feel the need to talk about how the world needs to Japan was responsible for the death of millions of eliminate nuclear weapons. people. If Harry Truman had not dropped the atomic Now, today’s Japan is a very different place from the bombs on cities which were also military locations, how Japan of the first part of the 20th century. However, many American soldiers would have died in the invasion apologists for Japan want to negate history and blast the of Japan? How many more people would have died in United States for dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Japanese captivity? Nagasaki. Japan has changed a great deal since the end of World The United States dropped the atomic bombs because War II. One factor related to that change was the fact the it was the only way to end the war since the Japanese General McArthur ran Japan as an occupied country after refused to an unconditional surrender. The invasion of the war. There were three goals for Japan: occupation, Japan would have caused thousands of American and rebuilding and democratization. The occupation of Japan Japanese casualties. was divided into three phases: an initial effort to punish Japan during the first part of the 20th century was a and reform Japan, the work to revive the Japanese country led by militaristic leaders committed to conquer- economy and the conclusion of a formal peace treaty and ing their neighbors and taking their resources. When Em- alliance. Events worked out so that today Japan is an ally peror Hirohito ascended the throne in 1926, the political and a free country. That was not the case in 1945. Harry battle in Japan was between liberals and leftists on one Truman did what he did because he was looking out for side and ultraconservatives on the other. his country. That attitude is one that all American leaders Japan wanted the natural resources of their neighbors should have. and so in 1931 Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria in Imperial Japan, History of WW2 – The History Channel China. The whole north of China was gradually taken History of World War 2 Department of State – Office of over. The Japanese captured all key Chinese ports and the Historian industrial centers. After the fall of Nanking in December, 1937 Japanese troops slaughtered an estimated 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. Civilians were sav- agely killed and by the war’s end, there were an estimated 10 to 20 million Chinese civilians deaths. In 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, creating the Rome-Tokyo-Berlin Axis thereby becoming an ally of Hitler and Mussolini. In July 1941, Japan occupied LEGISLATION/OPPOSITION French Indochina. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. More than 2400 Americans were killed and another 1200 injured. On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. On December 11, 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Japan then went on to steam their way through Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma. Just eight hours after bombing Pearl Harbor, Japanese troops attacked Hong Kong. In February 1942, 3 Singapore was attacked. The British were not prepared This cartoon is used with the permission by Cagle Cartoon State President Northern Division President Northwest Director XI Northern Division Shirley Mark Olivia McCaffrey Mary Raub www.cfrwnd.org 1885 Nacimiento Lake Dr P.O. 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