Green Township Post 10380 Veterans of Foreign Wars November 2015 Welcome from Commander Mike Donnelly

“Forever on Thanksgiving, our hearts will find the pathway home.”

As we start the month of November, this quote comes to mind. As we prepare to celebrate our Veterans and families, we should reflect on our lives as children, teens, young men and women who joined the military, began careers, developed friendships and started families. As we achieve each milestone, we see more clearly our how our pathway always leads home.

Please join us for our annual Veterans Day Program on November 11, 11:00 a.m. at Veterans Park as we give thanks for our Veterans. See page 3 for information about Veterans Day Programs in the community.

Be sure to check out the new Flag Retirement Court that was recently added to the Plaza at Veterans Park. We thank Erich Wagner, who was assisted by his father Shawn, for making this his Eagle Scout Project. See page 7 for more information and photos.

We were recently asked if it’s possible to make donations to Post 10380 and, if so, where does one send it. Absolutely! Check out page 10 for monetary ways to support the Post. Thanks for asking!

(Editor’s Note: Thirty lashes have been duly administered for last month’s incorrect meeting date in the newsletter! Mea culpa! SO...to avoid confusion and make it easier on all of us, the Post meeting date below will always be listed as the third Thursday each month. Please mark your calendars as there will no longer be a numeric date listed. The Staff meeting will have a numeric date because it occasionally changes. Sorry for any confusion!! Denise)

Thank you, Veterans! Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone! Mike

VFW Mission VFW Core Values ∗ To foster camaraderie among United States ∗ To always put the interests of our members first ∗ Treat donors as partners in our cause veterans of overseas conflicts ∗ Promote patriotism ∗ To serve our veterans, the military, and our ∗ Honor military service communities ∗ Ensure the care of veterans and their families ∗ Serve our communities ∗ To advocate on behalf of all veterans ∗ Promote a positive image of the VFW ∗ Respect the diversity of veteran opinions Meeting Date Staff Meeting Date The Post meeting will be the The Staff meeting will be Third Thursday each month Wednesday, November 11, 2015 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Nathanael Greene Lodge, lower level Nathanael Greene Lodge, upper level 6394 Wesselman Road 6394 Wesselman Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45247 Cincinnati, Ohio 45247 513.598.3100 513.598.3100 (Call Lodge for meeting cancellations) (Call Lodge for meeting cancellations)

Mark Your Calendar

Green Township Family Winterfest Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Nathanael Greene Lodge The Anderson Ferry on River Road 6394 Wesselman Rd Hosted by American Legion Post 534

Free photos with Santa Claus, Storytime with VFW Post 10380 members are invited to join Mrs. Claus, Meet the Grinch, and Santa’s Elves. the remembrance ceremony at the Ferry. Enjoy strolling Carolers, Popcorn, Cookie Decorating, Please arrive about 9:30 a.m. Train Display, Letters to Santa, Ornament Making, Hot Cider, Hot Chocolate and Live Reindeer. There will also be a coat drive collection for St. Vincent de Paul. Dress warmly—this event is outside. Shuttle buses available from 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Green Township Administration 6303 Harrison Ave. & Sur Seal, 6156 Wesselman Rd

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Veterans Day Programs

VFW Post 10380 Veterans Day Ceremony Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:00 a.m.

Green Township Veterans Park / 6303 Harrison Avenue

Comrades, please arrive by 10:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Caroline Trennepohl VFW Post 10380 Winner of 2015 Voice of Democracy

Free parking available at the Green Township Administration Building next to the park

Annual Hamilton County Green Township Senior Center Veterans Day Parade Veterans Day Luncheon & Program Sunday, November 8, 2015 2:00 p.m. Monday, November 2, 2015 Cheviot 11:00 a.m. Members of Post 10380 who wish to ride Complimentary Box Lunch for Veterans & the “people-mover” Presentation by the Museum Center - meet at 12:15 p.m. at the old Mack Fire Department, Cincinnati Veterans Memorials Bridgetown Road at Ebenezer Road.

If you didn’t get your free lunch ticket at our meeting, We will leave at 12:45 p.m. call the Senior Center at 385.3780. to reach our designated location in the parade.

For safety reasons, children are not permitted on the “people-mover”.

November 6 Oak Hills High School—3200 Ebenezer Road / Cincinnati / 45248 7:45 a.m. Coffee and donuts as we wait for the students to arrive 8:15 a.m. Program begins followed by lunch donated by Jimmy Johns. If you are interested in sharing your military experiences, some History classes will hold interview panels in the auditorium after lunch RSVP: Rob Vaske—922.2300 or email [email protected] by November 1

November 10 Three Rivers Elementary—56 Cooper Avenue, Cleves / Bruce & Margaret Knapp Auditorium 7:45 a.m. Arrive (please no sooner) Parking will be available on the east side of the building. Look for signs and attendants for assistance. 8:15 a.m. Breakfast served 9:00 a.m. Program begins RSVP: 467.3210 by November 6

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The History of Veterans Day

Office of Public Affairs

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.” In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the fol- lowing words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the na- tions…" The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business beginning at 11:00 a.m.

The United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I when it passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926, with these words: • Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and • Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be com- memorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace Above: Soldiers of the 353rd through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and Infantry near a church at Stenay, Meuse in France, wait for the end • Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared No- of hostilities. This photo was vember 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of taken at 10:58 a.m., on November Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a 11, 1918, two minutes before the proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Gov- armistice ending World War I ernment buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to ob- went into effect. serve the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremo- nies of friendly relations with all other peoples.

An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holi- day—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armi- stice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation’s history; after American forces had fought ag- gression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organiza- tions, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting in its place the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.

Later that same year, on October 8th, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first "Veterans Day Proclamation" which stated: "In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. Toward this end, I am desig- nating the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am Above: President Eisenhower also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the signing HR7786, changing Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible." Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

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The History of Veterans Day

On that same day, President Eisenhower sent a letter to the Honorable Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs (VA), designating him as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee.

In 1958, the White House advised VA's General Counsel that the 1954 designation of the VA Administrator as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee applied to all subsequent VA Administrators. Since March 1989 when VA was elevat- ed to a cabinet level department, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has served as the committee's chairman.

The Uniform Holiday Bill (Public Law 90-363 (82 Stat. 250)) was signed on June 28, 1968, and was intended to ensure three -day weekends for Federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. It was thought that these extended weekends would encourage travel, recreational and cultural activities and stimulate greater industrial and commercial production. Many states did not agree with this deci- sion and continued to celebrate the holidays on their original dates.

The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on October 25, 1971. It was quite apparent that the commemoration of this day was a matter of historic and patriotic significance to a great number of our citizens, and so on September 20th, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 (89 Stat. 479), which returned the annual ob- servance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11, beginning in 1978. This action supported the desires of the overwhelming majority of state legislatures, all major veterans service organizations and the American people.

Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.

http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

No Cost Flu Shot Options for Veterans

Flu Season is here and getting your flu shot has never been easier. Remember, getting vaccinated is the single best way to protect yourself against the flu virus. This We want to extend a warm welcome to the following year, enrolled Veterans of the VA Health Care System new member who transferred to our Post in October have two options to get a seasonal flu shot: • You may get a free flu shot at your local VA health Jim Crane care facility during any scheduled appointment, or if you are admitted to the VA Medical Center We appreciate you choosing Post 10380 and hope you enjoy yourself. • You may choose to go to your neighborhood We welcome your suggestions and Walgreens. As an enrolled VA patient, you can get a encourage you to become actively involved. no-cost flu shot from August 1, 2015—March 31, 2016. No appointment is required; simply tell the Please ask us for help if/when you need it. pharmacist you receive care at a VA facility and If you like us, invite a buddy; show your Veterans ID card and photo ID. Use if you don't, please tell us why. Group Code #5933XBAYV. Your immunization record will be updated electronically in your VA electronic health record. Source: www.blogs.va.gov

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Get to Know ...

“An American Soldier”

Lf: Civil War I'm just trying to be a father, Raise a daughter and a son, Be a lover to their mother, Everything to everyone. Up and at 'em bright and early, I'm all business in my suit, Yeah, I'm dressed up for success from my head down to my boots.

I don't do it for the money, there's bills that I can't pay, I don't do it for the glory, I just do it anyway, Providing for our future's my responsibility, Yeah I'm real good under pressure, being all that I can be. Above: World War I I can't call in sick on Mondays when the weekend's been too strong, I just work straight through the holidays, Sometimes all night long. You can bet that I stand ready when the wolf growls at the door. Hey, I'm solid, hey, I'm steady, hey, I'm true down to the core.

Above: WW II And I will always do my duty, no matter what the price. Rt. Korea I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Below: Vietnam Oh, and I don't want to die for you, But if dying's asked of me, I'll bear that cross with honor, 'Cause freedom don't come free.

I'm an American Soldier, an American, Beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand, When liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right, I'm out here on the front lines. Sleep in peace tonight. American Soldier, I'm an American Soldier.

Yeah, an American Soldier, an American. Rt: Grenada Beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand, Below: Persian When liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right, Gulf War I'm out here on the front lines, so sleep in peace tonight. American soldier, I'm an American, an American, an American Soldier!

Toby Keith/ Schock ‘n Yall 2003

Below: War on Terror: Afghanistan—Iraq Below: War on ISIL—Syria

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Veterans Park

The newest addition to the Plaza at Veterans Park is a beautiful, permanent area on the right side of the plaza: the home of the new Flag Retirement Court.

We are grateful to Erich Wagner for accepting our challenge, as his Eagle Scout Project, to create a special area in Veterans Park to retire unserviceable flags in a respectful, dignified manner. We are grateful to Green Township Trustees for ap- proving and supporting the design and construction of this project.

The Court will provide a special location for the symbolic, final tribute to “retired” U.S. flags that have become worn and tattered over the years. Post 10380 is excit- ed to have this beautiful area to carry out a much needed service, in collaboration with local Boy Scout troops, and promote enhanced re- spect for the United States flag in our community.

At the time of this printing, the Court is still under construction.

Post 10380 will plan a dedication ceremony in the future, as well as a Flag Retirement Ceremony.

Please take time to visit this treasured park.

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How the Flag Came to be Called “Old Glory”

A tale of fidelity, family feud and argument over ownership is the subject of a new inquiry by the Smith- sonian National Museum of American History. Old Glory, the weather-beaten 17- by 10-foot banner that has long been a primary NMAH artifact, is second only to Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner as a patriotic symbol, and is the source of the term now applied generically to all American flags. “It represents success, righteousness, sovereignty,” says museum director John Gray, but also a conflict that is still “deeply contested in our souls.”

During the Civil War, no flag became a more popular symbol of Union loyalty than the worn and imperiled standard belonging to 19th-century sea captain William Driver, who was originally from Salem, Massachu- setts. His defiant flying of it—from his Nashville, Tennessee, household during the midst of the conflict— made national news.

The flag was originally designed to unfurl grandly from a ship’s mast. Driver received the homemade flag with 24 stars in 1824, sewn for him by his mother and a group of young Salem female admirers to celebrate his appointment, at the age of 21, as a master mariner and commander of his own ship, the Charles Doggett. According to legend, when Driver raised the flag up the main mast, he lifted his hat and declaimed, “My ship, my country, and my flag, Old Glory.” However, Salem historian Bonnie Hurd Smith has found “no evidence whatsoever” that Driver made such a stiffly grandiose pronouncement. He more likely named the flag when reflecting on his adventurous 20-year career as an American merchant seaman who sailed to China, India, Gibraltar and throughout the South Pacific, at one point ferrying survivors of the HMS Bounty from Tahiti to Pitcairn Island under the flag. “It has ever been my staunch companion and protection,” he wrote. “Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world. Then, why should it not be called Old Glory?”

“The flag embodied America as he knew it at that point, going across the world,” says NMAH curator Jennifer Locke Jones. “He carried it with him and it was the pride of this independent free spirit. He was taking a bit of America to uncharted territories and he felt very proud that this was the symbol he flew under. He took a piece of his home with him wherever he went.”

In 1837, Driver gave up seafaring after his wife, Martha Silsbee Babbage, died from throat cancer, leaving him with three young children. Driver decided to settle in Nashville, where his three brothers had opened a store. Only 34 years old, he quickly remarried the next year, choosing a Southern girl less than half his age, Sarah Jane Parks, and started a second family that grew to nine chil- dren.

Driver flew his flag on holidays “rain or shine,” according to one of his Nashville-born daughters, Mary Jane Roland. It was so large that he attached it to a rope from his attic window and stretched it on a pulley across the street to secure it to a locust tree. In 1860, according to Roland, he and his wife and daughters repaired it, sewing on the additional ten stars, and Driver himself appli- quéd a small white anchor in the lower right corner to signify his career.

But as secession neared, Driver’s flag became a source of contention, and by the outbreak of the war, Driver’s own family was bit- terly riven. Two of his sons were fervent Confederates and enlisted in local regiments; one of them would later die of his wounds at the Battle of Perryville. One can only imagine the tensions between the Salem-born and Nashville-born Drivers, whose relations may have already been strained by first- and second-family rivalry.

Local Confederates attempted to seize Old Glory soon after Tennessee seceded. When Gov. Isham G. Harris sent a committee to Driver’s house to demand the flag, Driver met the men at the door. Picture a defiant 58-year-old with a chest still barrel-full and an out-thrust chin. “Gentlemen...if you are looking for stolen property in my house, produce your search-warrant,” he declared. Cowed, the committee left the premises.

Unsatisfied, local guerrillas made another attempt to seize the flag. When an armed squad arrived on Driver’s front porch, he stalked out to confront them. “If you want my flag you’ll have to take it over my dead body,” he threatened. They retreated.

Driver, by now convinced that the flag was in imminent danger, decided to hide it. With the help of the more loyal women in a neighboring household, it was sewn into a coverlet. It remained there until late February 1862, when Nashville became the first Southern capital to fall.

Union troops led by the Sixth Ohio entered the city. When Driver saw the Stars and Stripes and regimental colors of the Sixth Ohio go up the flagstaff of the capitol, he made his way there and sought out the Union commander, Gen. William “Bull” Nelson. As Nelson’s aide Horace Fisher recalled it, “A stout, middle-aged man, with hair well shot with gray, short in stature, broad in shoul-

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How the Flag Came to be Called “Old Glory” der, and with a roll in his gait, came forward and asked, ‘Who is the General in command? I wish to see him.’” Driver introduced himself as a former sea captain and loyal Unionist and then produced his coverlet.

Fisher recalled: “Capt. Driver—an honest-looking, blunt-speaking man, was evidently a character; he carried on his arm a calico- covered bed quilt; and, when satisfied that Gen. Nelson was the officer in command, he pulled out his jack-knife and began to rip open the bed quilt without another word. We were puzzled to think what his conduct meant.”

Finally, Fisher added, “the bedquilt was safely delivered of a large American flag, which he handed to Gen. Nelson, saying, ‘This is the flag I hope to see hoisted on that flagstaff in place of the [damned] Confederate flag set there by that [damned] rebel governor, Isham G. Harris. I have had hard work to save it; my house has been searched for it more than once.’ He spoke triumphantly, with tears in his eyes.”

General Nelson accepted the flag and ordered it run up on the statehouse flagstaff. Roland claimed to have witnessed what hap- pened next: It was greeted with “frantic cheering and uproarious demonstrations by soldiers,” many of them from the Sixth Ohio. The regiment would adopt “Old Glory” as its motto.

The confusion over flags began later that night, when a storm threatened to tear the banner to pieces. Driver apparently replaced it with a newer, stronger one, and once again stowed Old Glory away for safekeeping. There were also reports that Driver gave a flag to the Sixth Ohio as it left the city. According to Roland, however, the main flag remained stored in the Driver home until Decem- ber 1864 and the second battle for Nashville.

Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood fought his army to bits trying to retake the city. As the battle raged, Driver hung his flag out of the third-story window “in plain sight,” according to Roland. He then went to join the defense of the city, telling his household be- fore he left, “If Old Glory is not in sight, I’ll blow the house out of sight too.” Driver spent the rest of the war as a provost marshal of Nashville and worked in hospitals. According to Roland, several years before his death, he gave her the flag as a gift, on July 10, 1873. “This is my old ship flag Old Glory,” he told her. “I love it as a mother loves her child; take it and cherish it as I have always cherished it; for it has been my steadfast friend and protector in all parts of the world—savage, heathen and civilized.”

William Driver died on March 3, 1886, and was buried in Nashville. That same year saw the genesis of the family feud over the flag when his niece, Harriet Ruth Waters Cooke, daughter of his youngest sister and a Salem-born socialite highly conscious of her genealogy, claimed to have inherited it. She presented her version of Old Glory to the Essex Institute in Salem (now the Peabody Essex Museum), along with family memorabilia that included a letter from the Pitcairn Islanders to Driver. Why Driver would have given his precious flag to a niece in far-off Massachusetts is unclear—perhaps because he didn’t trust his Confederate-sympathizing children to care for it? Cooke also produced a family memoir that she self-published in 1889, in which she omitted the existence of Driver’s daughter Mary Jane.

Roland fought back. She set about documenting the history of the flag her father had given her, and in 1918 published her own ac- count, Old Glory, The True Story, in which she disputed elements of Cooke’s narrative and presented documentary evidence for her claim. In 1922, Roland presented her Old Glory as a gift to President Warren G. Harding, who in turn delivered it to the Smithson- ian.

That same year, the Peabody Essex also sent its Old Glory to the Smithsonian. But the museum chose to regard Roland’s flag as the more important one: It was directly descended from Driver, and documentary evidence in the Tennessee State Library and Archives strongly suggested it was the one hidden in the quilt and presented to Union troops who took Nashville. It also had common sense on its side: Driver would have hoisted his largest flag over the capitol dome.

The Peabody flag sank into insignificance. It has remained on loan at the Smithsonian since 1922, but has gone largely unexamined, given the emphasis on the larger Old Glory. However, it became the subject of renewed curiosity this July during a conservation evaluation of both flags by curator Jones and textile conservator Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss. As they surveyed both flags, they began discussing the odd family history, which has been periodically resurrected in local Salem news stories along with suggestions that the Peabody flag might have a legitimate claim. They decided to embark on a more exhaustive analysis of both flags.

It’s unlikely that the Smithsonian project will lay to rest the 125-year-old family quarrel. Nor is it likely that the smaller, 12- by 6- foot Peabody flag will supplant the traditional Old Glory in the eyes of Smithsonian curators, who report that the preliminary study indicates that the larger flag still has the much stronger claim. Source: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-flag-came-to-be-called-old-glory

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Information Corner VA Contact Information 0900 Muster for Coffee & Pastries Hamilton County Veterans’ Service Office Point Blank Cincy West 230 E. 9th Street (9th & Sycamore) Cinti. OH 7266 Harrison Avenue Room 1100 (1st floor) 513.946.3300 Cincinnati OH 45247 513.322.4050

VA Benefits: 800.827.1000 Complimentary Monthly Beneficiaries in receipt of Pension Benefits: Coffee & Pastries Get-Together 877.294.6380 1st Wednesday of each month 9—10 a.m. Debt Management: 800.827.0648 for Post 10380 members, families & friends Education (GI Bill): 888.442.4551 RSVP by two days prior to Health Care Benefits: 877.222.8387 Mike Donnelly 675.4249 or Bob Abrams 609.6379 Status of Headstones/Markers: 800.697.6947 VFW Post 10380 Rent Raffle Life Insurance: 800.669.8477 $10 per ticket Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD): 800.829.4833 Monthly Drawings: Special Issues—Gulf War / Agent Orange / $100 and $50 Project Shad / Mustard Agents and Lewisite / Ionizing Radiation: 800.749.8387 December Drawings: $500 and $100 Illness & Bereavement Committee See Jim Jansen at the meeting to We all need the love and support of friends and pick up your tickets. family during times of illness and death. Post 10380 provides support to our members and their spouses during these times. We always welcome We always welcome Comrades, if you or your spouse is admitted to new business sponsors donations! and any Cincinnati area hospital, or Checks payable to: individual supporters. VFW Post 10380. if you would like to have a VFW ceremony Contact Bob Abrams Mail to: conducted at your funeral service, 513.609.6379 or PO Box 62 please contact committee members Larry Chuma North Bend, OH 513.549.9369 Ben Staubach (513.941.6868) or 45052 Al Vetter 513.668.0813).

October Meeting Winners How Do I Join? Split-the-Pot: GalenTaylor VFW Post 10380 Attendance Prize: Mike Donnelly always welcomes new $100 Monthly Raffle: Charlie Wilke To all members. $50 Raffle: John Wilke November Contact Gary Overbey 513.741.9921 or Mike Donnelly 513.675.4249 Birthdays! for eligibility requirements.

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2015 Calendar of Annual Events

January February March Reminders 8 Four Chaplains Memorial Service at St. Boniface Church Veterans Transportation Service (VTS)

April May June

12 Family Kite Fly at 8 “Greatest Generation” 1 Memorial Day Golf Gala at The Meadows Outing at Aston Oaks Veterans Park 25 Cars & Courage Car 23 Poppy Day Fundraiser Show at Cinemark 25 Post 10380 Memorial To schedule transportation on Day Ceremony VTS, call 513.487.6066. Please Community Memorial schedule at least 72 hours in ad- Day Ceremonies vance of appointments. For addi- tional information, please visit the July August September website below. http:// 3 Green Township 20 Grill-Out/Post Meeting 10 Harvest Home Parade www.va.gov/healtheligibility/ July 4th Celebration at 29 Green Township Kids’ veteranstransportationservice/ Kuliga Park Fun Day at Veterans Park Newsletter by Email To save money, this newsletter can be sent to you or family members October November December by email. Post 10380 Annual 11 Post 10380 Veterans 4 Green Township Raffle tickets available Day Ceremony Family Winterfest To be added to the list, email

6 Pearl Harbor vfwpost10380@ gmail.com Community Veterans Day Ceremonies Remembrance You can also view it on our web- Ceremony site www.vfw10380.org VAMC Christmas

Reminder: Annual Dues T-Shirt Distribution Funeral Service If you would like our For additional information on services or programs, or Post to conduct a VFW to be added to or removed from this mailing, contact Mike Donnelly ceremony at a funeral 513.675.4249 or email to vfwpost10380 @gmail.com service, please contact Dan Wilcox at 513.922.5458 Post 10380 Officers Commander: Judge Advocate Service Officer Mike Donnelly 513.675.4249 Don Willwerth 513.574.1287 Peter Rebold 513.574.0100 Senior Vice-Commander Chaplain Trustee 1 Year Dan Wilcox 513.922.5458 Bob Abrams 513.609.6379 Jim Stanghetti 513.542.4198 Junior Vice-Commander Surgeon Trustee 2 Years Ben Staubach 513.941.6868 Gary Overbey 513.741.9921 Jim Copenhaver 513.574.2959 Officer of the Day Quartermaster Ron Kelly 812.637.2178 Trustee 3 Years Jerry Rowland 513.367.1911 Guard Larry Chuma 513.549.9369 Adjutant Bill Soto 513.574.5389 Illness & Bereavement Charlie Wilke 513.378.8623 Membership Ben Staubach 513.941.6868 Gary Overbey 513.741.9921 Al Vetter 513.668.0813

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