Veterans of Foreign Wars of the General MacArthur Memorial Post 392 2408 Bowland Parkway Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454-5207 (757) 486-5875 www.vfw392.org

2012 Membership Goal: 1,714 Current Membership: 97.84% with 1,676 Members

May 2012 - VOLUME 23, NUMBER 11

2012 - 2013 OFFICERS

Post Commander………………...… Peter Gebelein Ladies Auxiliary President………. Suzie Forehand

Sr. Vice Commander……….…..…....…Bill Sowers Ladies Aux. Sr. Vice President……… Judy Lupole

Jr. Vice Commander….……………… John Brooks Ladies Aux. Jr. Vice President……… Sue Sowers

Quartermaster…………….…….. Donald E. Brown Ladies Aux. Chaplain...……………..……. (TBA)

Chaplain………………….….…..……. Bob Duvall Ladies Aux. Treasurer……… Elizabeth Moynihan

House Committee Chairman…….... Ralph Stephens Seam Squirrel…………..….….….…... Bill Moran

Service Officer……………...... Gunnar Gudjonsson M.O.C.A. President……..……....……. Pam Myers

Surgeon……………...…….....… Merle W. Gootee Judge Advocate…………….....…..… Doug Keller

placing of flags on Veteran’s grave 5/1 Pres. Bush announces that COMMANDER’S sites for Memorial Weekend. We “ m a j o r c o m b a t CORNER can always use the extra hands, not operations in Iraq have

only with placing the flags, but also ended” in 2003 COMRADES AND SISTERS with retrieval, conditional 5/2 Osama bin Laden killed by inspection, and stowing of the flags. US Forces in 2011 We are getting close to the end 5/3 Battle of the Coral Sea of the VFW year. With that Both events rely heavily on begins in 1942 being said, I would like to volunteers, so please support our 5/7 German submarine sinks congratulate all the new Veterans and lend a hand! Lusitania in 1915 incoming Post Officers for the Membership: we are a little 5/8 V-E Day celebrated in 2012-2013 year! And I would laggard with recruiting new America / Britain in 1945 also like to extend a warm members and getting membership 5/10 General T.J. “Stonewall” hearted thank you to all the renewals. Our Post is close to the Jackson dies in 1863 volunteers that worked as hard as 100% mark! With a little more 5/13 Mother’s Day they did to make April such a effort from every member, I believe 5/19 Armed Forces Day successful month! My hat is off we can reach our goal and maybe (established August 1949) to you all! even exceed it! 5/20 101st Airborne captures In May, we have a couple of Please remember one more thing, “Hamburger Hill” (Ap Bia big projects that we will need Comrades and Sisters, this is Mountain, Vietnam) in 1969 everyone’s help on. The first big YOUR Post. So if you have any 5/21 American Red Cross one is Buddy . If we ideas or suggestions, please attend a founded in 1881 could get everyone to sign up to meeting and get involved! And 5/30 Operation Pile Driver, an volunteer just a few hours of please feel free to contact me or any offensive against the ’Iron their day and distribute Buddy of the post officers. Triangle’ begins (Korean Poppies, we could make this War) in 1951 event an astonishing success! DATES TO REMEMBER 5/30 House Committee

The second big project is the 5/1 Post 392 Meeting Meeting

Page 1 Continued Page 2 NEW MEMBERS next meeting is at 19:00 (7 pm) on many of you up there. See flyers at May 1st. I am looking forward to bar for more information. I extend a warm welcome to the seeing all of you at the meeting. th new members who were voted On the 14 we hosted over 50 into our Post at the last regular Post Commander vets from the VA hospital for meeting. Peter Gebelein lunch. The LAX did a fantastic job 757-641-6377 as usual, and the food was superb. New / Transfer Life [email protected] 28th of May we will meet at the Members: ------post at about 1030, and car pool to Ryan D. Bergstresser the Hampton VA hospital. There Paul V. Porrini SENIOR VICE COMMANDER we will show the vets a movie and Leonard J. Santivasci serve pizza and drinks. We need

New / Transfer / Re-Instated all the help we can get for this We had quite a turn out for the Annual Members & Life event, so I hope to see some of you social hour at the ATRIA Social in Installment: there. Please lend a hand for a early April. We made some new good cause! Phillip B. Ballard friends and even some new Dustin S. Biri members! Thank you to all who CALENDAR PLANNING: James T. Blount were able to attend! VVA, FRA, USMC, AOA,

John C. Carey Last month, I heard a member DRIVE SAFE, BSA, SALTY William D. Glenn III complaining about the Post Bylaws DAWGS Richard W. Halvorson and Standard Operating Procedures On May 6 at 1500 there will be a Joel R. Marquez at the bar. I want to remind all, that meeting of ALL organizations who Eric J. Medina the proper place for complaints is meet in our Post throughout the Wade A. Morrison AT THE MEETINGS!! Richard H. Poolos year . This is a planning meeting to George C. Thalassinos My understanding of the Bylaws set up the calendar for next fiscal is that they are approved, and no year post activities. PLEASE BE Thank you for your service and changes are to be made at this time. THERE TO PROVIDE INPUT welcome aboard. The SOP is awaiting final input FOR YOUR GROUP. followed by post approval. I will let BIRTHDAYS ONTINUOUS EMBERSHIP you know more as the information C M May I wish “Happy Birthday” becomes available on either AWARDS to James A. Roberson (Happy governing documentations. Keep in The following comrades have 93rd!), Dominick L. Garcia mind, if you attend the meetings, earned Continuous Membership (PPC), Marvel H. Loy (PPC), you will know just as soon as I Awards as indicated below. Richard A. Craig, Douglas R. do!!! Keller (PPC), Ronnie S. Kiger, Please attend the next General Amanda N. Awtry, Matthew P. A CORPORATE MEETING will Membership Meeting to receive Nowak, and 140 other fine be held in June to ascertain if any your lapel pin. If you are unable to comrades! NEW BY LAW CHANGES are attend the meeting, contact any recommended. If you have a Post Officer and your pin will be I also extend warmest complaint pertaining to our Bylaws, presented. If your name has not “Birthday Wishes” to Goldie that would be the time to air it! been listed and you believe that an Gibson (Happy 81st!), Patricia award is due, please contact the R. Leach, Barbara Herbert, Mary Sunday, 6 May at 1800, the 2012- 2013 calendar planning meeting Quartermaster. E. Stogsdill, Priscilla Ann Myers, Jaime L. Taylor, and 21 will commence. If you are not Forty (40) Years Of other fine sisters! present or have made inputs to the Continuous Service:

Commander prior to the meeting, Jack J. Hilgers POST MEETINGS DO NOT COMPLAIN.

Post meetings are held the first The State convention is 7-10 June Tuesday of each month. Our in Williamsburg. I hope to see

Page 2 Continued Page 3 Twenty-Five (25) Years Of distributing them goes to worry again about your renewals! Continuous Service: maintaining state and national NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE Michael R. Lynch Veteran’s rehabilitation and service programs, and partially supports the ONLINE AND BY EMAIL Gerd W. Marker Jack L. Wilson, Jr. VFW National Home for orphans The newsletter is now available and widows of our Veterans. via email! To sign up, go to our Twenty (20) Years Of website at www.vfw392.org, select Continuous Service: As the VFW’s official memorial flower, the represents the NEWS, scroll down, and enter the Stanley Willner following: first name, last name, bloodshed by American service Fifteen (15) Years Of members. And it reiterates that we email address, and Membership ID Continuous Service: will not forget their sacrifices. Number. Check the ‘Yes’ box, and then just click ‘Submit’. Charles R. Alexander VOLUNTEERS is what we need Terrence W. Bobka to get the word out! CHANGE OF ADDRESS Robert Lee Godfrey VOLUNTEERS are how we We need to maintain a current Samuel P. Hamaker distribute the Buddy Poppies! address on our members, here at William S. Kaufman VOLUNTEERS are what make this the post and at national Eric L. Rigsby all happen! So please, contribute headquarters. So please, when Michael P. Yatsko your share of time for a great cause your mailing address changes, be and take pride in your efforts to Five (5) Years Of sure to fill out an address change benefit others! Continuous Service: form, and drop it off or mail it to

David J. Bozak If you have any questions or need me at the post. me for any Post business, you can Quartermaster Thank you for your service and catch me at the Post or contact me Donald E. Brown congratulations! at the email address below. [email protected]

SR. Vice Commander ------Bill Sowers Jr. Vice Commander [email protected] John Brooks CHAPLAIN’S [email protected] ------CORNER

JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER QUARTERMASTER TEMPORARY SHORT TERM

ILLNESS OR INJURIES

Starting Wednesday the 23rd LISTING through we will A FRIENDLY REMINDER: Please read the Post Bulletin be distributing Buddy Poppies, MEMBERSHIP DUES and don’t forget the Buddy Board for most recent up-dates as Poppy spaghetti dinner is on Renew your 2012 Annual individuals on the Short Term May 17th! Membership today - dues are Listing become sick or recover.

$30.00. You may bring your dues We are still looking for payment to Post 392, renew them Norm Phelps volunteers to “shake their cans” Home online at vfw.org, or mail them for Poppies. It is only two hours directly to VFW National: Steve Lasseter out of your day to help, so please Home sign up! The signup sheets are at VFW National Headquarters the Post’s doors … so you can Third Floor, Room 316 Patrick Callahan 406 West 34th St. VA Medical Center, Richmond sign up on your way in or out of Kansas City, MO 64111 Tony Hardock the Post.

(please include your membership #) Home It is well worth your time to volunteer. Buddy Poppies are Also, please consider changing Joe Brady assembled by disabled Veterans, your Annual Membership to a LIFE Virginia Beach General and the money raised by Membership, and never have to Room 346 Page 3 Continued Page 4 Joe Gaskill TAPS is not best. Or it may be that our Home timing is not His timing, or He has The following list honors and some far greater purpose in mind. Clyde J. Greene remembers our Post Veteran Let us remember, even Jesus Kindred - Bay Pointe members in their recent passing: prayed to His heavenly Father, Virginia Beach Roger A. Dowe “Nevertheless not my will, but (off First Colonial) 25 January 2012 Yours” (Luke 22:42). Do we or you have the centurion’s great LONG TERM ILLNESS OR Robert H. Fred faith --- a faith that trusts God to INJURIES LISTING 8 February 2012 do His work, in His way? The following named members John E. Penner Unanswered prayers are have a serous, long term illness 22 March 2012 or injury, that require them to be unanswered still as part of God’s in the listed location for At our monthly meeting, Draping plan; they help to carry out His continuous care: of the Charter had been conducted; will to demonstrate God’s love for also a prayer of solemn tribute was man. God’s answers are wiser than Burt Jones given on behalf of our departed our prayers. Kings Grant House, Virginia comrades. Beach, Room 203 A LITTLE RELIGIOUS OUR MONTHLY BREAD HUMOR

Nick Nickerson Hampton VA Medical Center Unanswered Prayers A Letter Addressed to God (Suggested reading: Luke 7:1– 12) Please keep our members in A letter written in a childish your thoughts and prayers for a An explanation we often hear for scrawl came to the Post Office, speedy recovery. If you are “unanswered” prayers is that we addressed to “God.” don’t have enough faith. But Jesus unable to visit, send a get well A postal employee, not knowing said in Luke 17:6 that if we have card to let them know they are in exactly what to do with the letter, faith the size of a mustard seed, we your thoughts. Or if you know opened it and read; “Dear God, my can command a mulberry tree to be them personally, a call will let name is Jimmy, I am 6 years old. uprooted and planted in the sea and them know that you care. My father is dead and my Mom is it will obey us. In other words, the having a hard time raising me and HELP US TAKE CARE OF effectiveness of our prayers my sister. Would you please send EACH OTHER depends not on how much faith we us $500?” have, but on whether we even have Comrades, when you or a faith. The Postal employee was family member falls ill, are Luke tells of a Roman centurion touched. He showed the letter to injured, hospitalized, or his fellow workers and all decided experience the loss of a loved with “great faith” (7:9). His faith was expressed first as an appeal to to kick in a few dollars each, and one - please contact the Post As they were able to raise $300. They Soon As Possible! Let us know! Jesus to heal his dying servant. Then it was expressed as an sent it to the family back through It is important that we extent the mail system. acknowledgment that Jesus could our hand in anyway possible to heal his servant anytime, anywhere. A couple of weeks later the same aid and comfort our fellow The centurion did not ask Jesus to post office received a second letter comrades and family in their do things his way. addressed to God. time of need. Faith has been described as The boy, Jimmy, thanked God for We each maintain a certain “trusting God’s heart and trusting the recent infusion of cash, but degree of self-reliance and God’s power”. Some prayers that ended with this request: “Next independence, but if we cannot seem to go unanswered are simply time, would you send the money fall back upon our VFW brothers instances in which God has directly to us? If you send it and sisters as family, then who lovingly overruled our wishes. He through the post office, they are we to call upon? knows that what we have asked for deduct $200!”

Page 4 Continued Page 5 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR President: Judy Lupole

FUNERAL MEMORIAL Sr Vice President: Sue Sowers CANCER AID AND RESEARCH SERVICES / COLOR GUARD Jr Vice President: Colleen Lewis

Our Post has become Chaplain: Lucy Bailey MAY: MELANOMA AND shorthanded of volunteers to Treasurer: Beth Moynihan BRAIN CANCER perform required duties for AWARENESS MONTH Memorial Services of our Conductress: Patty Stokes deceased VFW members and 3 Year Trustee: Denice Moran Skin / Melanoma Cancer veterans. The Post’s participation Guard: Amy Kiger May starts National Skin Cancer / of these honorable and formal Melanoma Awareness Month. Please join us on May 23 for the procedures are requested from Skin cancer is one of the most Installation of Post and Ladies the VFW member, veteran, or common types of cancer, with over their families. Auxiliary officers.

one million people diagnosed each Each comrade that volunteers In closing, to those of you who are year. ill or otherwise indisposed and have will be trained for their Fast facts about skin cancer: individual position’s duties, and not been able to join us, you are in cross-trained for all other duties my thoughts and prayers. Skin cancer and melanoma account for about 50% of all in the services. This allows Ladies Auxiliary President supplementation of members as types of cancer diagnosed Suzie Forehand combined. need be, and also allows for ------familiarization of the complete Skin cancer is one of the most procedures to ensure a graceful LADIES AUXILIARY preventable types of cancer. service progression. MEMBERSHIP More than 90% of skin cancer is causes by exposure to the sun. If you accept to volunteer, you Each hour, 1 person dies of skin will be placed on the ‘call The sisters listed below are cancer. notification’ list, and contacted requested to attend the next Skin Cancer and Melanoma when service requirements regularly scheduled meeting of the Basics: necessitate. Ladies Auxiliary. Our Auxiliary Skin cancer is divided into two President stands ready to decorate The dress code will be ‘Blues categories: melanoma and non- you with the Continuous and Grays’ with a white shirt, a melanoma. tie, black shoes, and your VFW Membership awards indicated. Melanoma is a dangerous form dress hat. Fifteen (15) Years Of of skin cancer. If you would like to participate Continuous Service: Although serious, non - contact the Post Chaplain: Bob Jan Gossen melanoma is much less life Duvall, or the Service Officer: threatening and easier to treat. Gunnar Gudjonsson. Ten (10) Years Of Symptoms of Skin Cancer: Continuous Service: Post Chaplain A small lump (spot or mole) that Robert Duvall Debra M. Glaser is shiny, waxy, pale in color and ------Five (5) Years Of smooth in texture. Continuous Service: A red lump (spot or mole) that is LADIES AUXILIARY PRESIDENT Peggy Ann Austin firm. A sore or spot that bleeds or Sue Griffin becomes crusty. Also look for Dear Sisters, Thank you for your service and sores that don’t heal. Election of officers for 2012- congratulations! Rough and scaly patches on the 2013 was held at our last Ladies Auxiliary Treasurer skin. meeting. Congratulations to the Elizabeth Moynihan Flat scaly areas of the skin that following: ------are red or brown.

Page 5 Continued Page 6 Any new growth that looks early in the morning. over with all the volunteers. If you suspicious. Abnormalities in vision (for are interested in volunteering,

The Causes of Skin Cancer: example double vision, loss of please contact Sue Sowers at 757- Unprotected exposure to the peripheral vision) 427-1557 or just come to the sun’s UV rays is the culprit of Difficulty with speech. meeting. Gradual changes in intellectual or ------most causes of skin cancer. emotional capacity. Genetics also can play a role in THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!! skin cancer development. In many people, the onset of these This is the time of the week to Brain Cancer symptoms is very gradual and may unwind from the rat race and enjoy be overlooked by both the person Not all brain tumors cause a quiet evening of entertainment, with the brain tumor and the socializing with your friends, and symptoms and some are found person’s family members, even for mainly after death, with the taking a great opportunity to make a long time. new friends. Social hour prices are death not caused by the brain Occasionally, however, these in effect from 4 to 6 PM. tumor. The symptoms of brain tumors are numerous and not symptoms appear more rapidly. In From 6:00 to 8:00 PM the kitchen specific to all brain tumors, some instances, the person acts as if will offer steamed shrimp, and our meaning they are caused by he or she is having a stroke. In full menu will also be available. many other illnesses as well. some patients, the symptoms may ------be more pronounced if the cancer is The only way to know for sure WEEKENDS AT THE VFW located mainly in a specific brain what is causing the symptoms is lobe that is usually responsible for Weekends at the VFW has to undergo diagnostic testing. certain body functions. something for everyone. The Early symptoms may not occur, Canteen will open at 11:00 AM on but when they do, they are Let us celebrate less cancer and Saturdays and Sundays with all typically caused by the more birthdays! your favorites on tap and in following: Chairmen bottles. The symptoms are caused by Tina Brown Judy Lupole We have six (6) TVs, five (5) of the tumor pressing on or which are large flat screens. So encroaching on either places of P.S. We will have information on with NASCAR in season, you will the brain and keeping them the cancer dance in the next definitely have a seat with a good from functioning normally. newsletter. We are looking forward view to keep an eye on your Some symptoms are caused by to seeing everybody there! We are driver! swelling in the brain primarily hoping to raise A LOT of money caused by the tumor or its for cancer aid and research! Come down and spend a great surrounding inflammation. ------afternoon with your comrades and Some symptoms of primary sisters at the Post. and metastatic brain cancers POST Chairman Ralph Stephens are similar in men, women and ANNOUNCEMENTS

children. Manager Joe Halzack Most common symptoms: VA HOSPITAL VOLUNTEERS ------Headache MEETING

“We cherish too, the Poppy red, Weakness There will be a meeting on That grows on fields where valor led, Clumsiness Monday, May 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM It seems to signal to the skies, Difficulty walking for those interested in helping at the That blood of heroes never dies.” Seizures VA hospital during the Saturdays

we have either Movies or Bingo. Nonspecific symptoms: Altered mental status in This meeting is open to all who Moina Michael’s concentration, memory, are already on the schedule, and “” attention or alertness. also those who wish to volunteer. Nausea, vomiting: especially We have a few new guidelines to go ------Page 6 Continued Page 7 THURSDAY NIGHT answer any questions concerning physical description of the card veteran’s affairs. holder, have the card holder’s DINNERS signature, and a serial or ID Her scheduled availability will be May 3rd May 10th number.) posted here each month. For this BBQ Baby Salisbury Steak (1) Driver’s license or State month, she will be available:

Back Ribs Mashed issued ID card. May 17th Potato Salad Potatoes (2) U.S. Passport 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM Baked Beans Green Beans (3) Foreign Passport, validated

Hot Rolls Hot Rolls She is also available weekdays at by INS.

Fresh Salad Bar Fresh Salad Bar her Virginia Beach office: (4) Driver’s license issued in

Dessert Dessert Mexico or Canada Pembroke Office Park Cost: $7.50 Cost: $7.50 (5) U.S. Military ID Card. 287 Independence Blvd. Building 2, Suite 130 We do not rely on Social Security May 17th May 24th

(757) 552-1884 cards or photo ID cards issued by

Brunswick Stew Buddy Poppies non government entities. Under the Ms Bonin has provided this Egg Noodles Spaghetti law the notary has the right to valuable service for many years and Hot Rolls Dinner refuse, if he/she suspects helped numerous comrades and Fresh Salad Bar something may be false or wrong. sisters to get the benefits they have Dessert ------solely earned. She stands ready to Cost: $7.50 Cost: $7.50 assist you, so please, come out and COOTIE BREAKFAST

May 31st talk to her. Sundays from 0900-1130 Liz Bonin Grill Your Own Steak Last Breakfast, Sunday the 13th

Baked Potato ------Please come and join us, you

Grilled Onions / Peppers NOTARY PUBLIC won’t be disappointed! Hot Rolls The following Post members are Fresh Salad Bar Our Breakfast Teams need help! commissioned as Notary Public’s We need volunteers and back up Dessert

for the Commonwealth of Virginia: cooks for all three teams. If you Cost: $9.50 ------Service Officer, Gunnar volunteer as a back-up cook, you Gudjonsson only have to fill in when the FRIDAY ENTERTAINMENT regular cook cannot be there. Chaplain, Bob Duvall Below is the entertainment for You do not have to be a Cootie to this month, come and enjoy the They are authorized to legally volunteer, we welcome anyone music with your friends every notarize documents such as Power who wishes to join us. Come Friday from 7PM to 10PM. of Attorney, Bill of Sale, Will, volunteer for a worthy cause: May 4th May 11th Living Will, etc. Please check with every penny we make goes to our the VFW main office for Monica Arnold Tim Hopkins hospitalized Veterans. In addition appointment. to the work, we have a lot of fun Karaoke & DJ Live music Be aware that under VA code the and make some great friends. May 18th May 25th notary must acknowledge: For more information, call Doug Captain Moose Jim Berry (1) Signer must personally Keller (757-418-3178), or Patty Karaoke & DJ DJ appear before the notary. Stokes (757-468-9249). ------(2) Signer (s) must positively be Breakfast Chairman TATE OF IRGINIA S V identified Doug Keller

VETERANS AFFAIRS (3) Signer must affirm under o a t h Co-Chair REPRESENTATIVE the document accuracy. Patty Stokes

PLEASE NOTE NEW SCHEDULE Acceptable Forms of Identification: Cash Coordinator Ms Elizabeth Bonin will now (To be acceptable, the ID must be Frank Frevele be at Post 392 once a month to current, contain a photo and ------Page 7 Continued Page 8 TROOP 392 INCOMING Cartoons provided by More than 100,000 people are John Sheppard expected to attend activities at Post 392 Scouting Program Visit his website at: VA's national cemeteries; with Come out and join Cub Scout www.incomingcartoons.com and color guards, readings, bands, and Pack 392, Boy Scouts Troop while you’re there, check out his choir performances. Events will 392, and Venturing Crew 1911! honor about one million men and new Book: “INCOMING Military For more information call Wes Cartoons’! women who died in the military Gibson at 757-615-8300. ------during wartime; including about YIS 655,000 battle deaths. NATIONAL CEMETERIES Wes Gibson PAUSE ON MEMORIAL DAY National cemetery staff and ------volunteers typically place CORRECTIONS (excerpts from US Dept of VA web American flags on each grave. At article) Arlington National Cemetery in Previous Newsletters identified our VA Representative, Ms. Memorial Day weekend for many Virginia, for example, Soldiers Bonin’s office address as Suite people is a time spent frolicking at from the 3rd U.S. Infantry 120. The accurate address is the beach or enjoying a traditional Regiment based at Fort Myer, Va. Suite 130 and has been corrected backyard barbecue with family and (the famed “Old Guard”) for all future Newsletters. friends. For others, the weekend is a traditionally decorate each grave time for somber remembrance of with a small American flag. Please accept our apologies for the loved ones who died in the Remembering all the fallen any confusion or issues these service of their nation. warriors errors may have caused. Memorial Day is the federal On Memorial Day at 3 p.m., local We welcome any comments, holiday celebrated the last Monday suggestions, or complaints about time around the nation, Americans of each May to honor the men and will be silent the annual Moment errors that warrant correction. women who died while serving in They can be directed to any of of Remembrance to pause and the military. Unlike Veterans Day, reflect on the sacrifice of the Post 392 Officers. which is held each November 11 to ------America's fallen warriors and the honor all Veterans, Memorial Day freedoms that unite Americans. INCOMING represents a time for the nation to

The Department of Veterans pause, remember and honor the

Affairs maintains approximately service of deceased Veterans and

three million gravesites at its 131 military members who died on

active duty. national cemeteries and has the

potential to provide six million

Memorial Day traditions

graves on more than 19,000 acres

Alec Bennett, a historian with the in 39 states (and Puerto Rico), as

Department of Veterans Affairs’ well as 33 soldier's lots and

National Cemetery Administration, monument sites.

said that the place where Memorial

Day originated continues to be

disputed. Waterloo, N.Y. and

Charleston, S.C., are often

mentioned among the places where

the holiday began in 1866.

The holiday was originally called

Decoration Day, when the tradition “You can always tell the sailor of decorating the graves of Union who is on his first cruise by the and Confederate Veterans began. It way he negotiates the ship still brings loved ones to the graves corridors” of the deceased, often with flowers. ------

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General MacArthur Memorial Post No. 392 2408 Bowland Parkway Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5207

Phone: (757)486-5875 Fax: (757)486-3576 E-Mail: [email protected] THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE - 392 Web Site: www.vfw392.org

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 VFW / LAUX USMC League BBQ Baby Back Steamed Shrimp VA Hospital 6 - 8 PM Meeting Meeting Ribs Casino Day Troop 392 Entertainment 7:00 PM 6 - 7:30 PM Monica Arnold

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cootie Breakfast VA Hospital MOC / MOCA Troop 392 Salisbury Steak Steamed Shrimp Team Three Volunteers Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM 6 - 8 PM 7:00 PM Entertainment Salty Dawg Mtg Meeting Tim Hopkins Calendar Planning 7:00 PM Meeting 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Mother’s Day FRA 166 USMC League Brunswick Stew Steamed Shrimp Armed Forces 6 - 8 PM LAST Cootie Staff Meeting Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Entertainment Day Breakfast AOA Assoc Mtg Capt Moose Team One Troop 392

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 FRA 166 Installation Post / Buddy Poppies Buddy Poppies Buddy Poppies Branch Meeting LAUX Spaghetti Dinner Steamed Shrimp VA Hospital Buddy Poppies 6 - 7:30 PM 6 - 8 PM Bingo Entertainment Troop 392 Jim Berry

27 28 29 30 31 Buddy Poppies Memorial Day VVA Chapter 969 House Committee Grill Your Own Colors Meeting Meeting Steak Wreath Laying 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 6 - 7:30 PM 8:00 AM Troop 392

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