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Commander's Think Tank January 2017 (505) 662-3506 www.vfw8874.org “The cost of Freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. POST CALENDAR: And one path we shall never choose, SUNs World Tavern Poker 3:00PM and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” MONs Pool League 9-Ball 6:30PM TUEs Pool League 8-Ball 6:30PM ~ President John F. Kennedy ~ WEDs World Tavern Poker 7:00PM THUs Karaoke (Non-Pay THU) 7:00PM VFW MISSION: Daily Free Pool All Day 2nd MONs VFW Aux Meetings 5:30PM The Veterans of Foreign Wars is an organization of war veterans committed to 3rd THUs VFW Member Meetings 6:00PM ensuring rights, remembering sacrifices, promoting patriotism, performing JANUARY community services and advocating for a strong national defense. New Years Day JAN 1 VFW Auxiliary Meeting - 5:30PM JAN 9 COMMANDER’S THINK TANK: MLK Day JAN 16 I hope that you all had a great and a very happy . I also hope that Desert Storm Began ~ 1991 JAN 17 Christmas New Year VFW Meeting - 6PM JAN 19 you got an opportunity to spend time with your family and friends and that these Inauguration Day JAN 20 past holidays brought you nothing but happiness and great hope for this new year. District 6 Meeting ~ Santa Fe JAN 14 Vietnam Peace Day ~ 1973 JAN 27 As I mentioned before, our membership continues to stay busy, helping Veterans in Panama Campaign Ended ~ 1990 JAN 31 need and staying involved with both our community and with numerous charitable organizations. For example, we participated in the Thanksgiving Luncheon FEBRUARY Committee held at the local American Legion and we were able to provide a monetary National Freedom Day FEB 1 contribution to help make this annual event a successful one. Also, we participated Groundhog Day FEB 2 Four Chaplains Day FEB 3 in the Los Alamos Holiday Light Parade in December and after the event, our VFW USO B-Day FEB 4 Auxiliary had great food for all of us to enjoy. We also took part in Wreaths Across NM VFW Mid-Winter Conf. ~ ABQ FEB 4 America, a nationwide program which distributes holiday wreaths as a tribute to Superbowl Party FEB 5 Veterans laid to rest at National Cemeteries and other cemeteries including our Boy Scouts (USA) Founded ~ 1910 FEB 8 UFC Fight - Holly Holms FEB 11 own Guaje Pines. Further, this past weekend, some of our members attended the VFW Auxiliary Meeting - 5:30PM FEB 13 VFW District 6 Meeting held in Santa Fe and on Saturday, February 4,. Many of use Valentine’s Day FEB 14 will also be attending the VFW Mid-Winter State Convention in Albuquerque. Remember the Maine Day FEB 15 VFW Teacher of the Year Award Due FEB 15 On another note, we continue to make improvements at our Post as we try to make it a great place for Veterans and their friends to gather and share quality time together. One of the improvements is the purchase of a Point of Sale (POS) system which we hope to have up-and-running soon. This will help us provide better service to our customers and also assist in the administration of our canteen. Also, Victor Valenzuela has lead a team of volunteers (Jack Boyd, Sean Beggio, Eli Garcia) to building. Thank you all for all your hard work—we really appreciate it. help improve our security system, our office, and also the lighting throughout our Further, I am excited to also announce that we plan to broadcast every UFC Fight this calendar year. The next UFC Fight will take place on Saturday, February 11 where Holly Holm ermaine “Iron Lady” de Randaime (www.ufc.com/event/ufc-208). So if you have not been at our post to watch the UFC will Fightsbe fighting, I encourage for the feather you to attend weight and title bring against your G friends. They Please remember to take the time to honor all those who have honorably are a lot of fun and we provide a great atmosphere toVeterans watch a fight. served this great country of ours. We need to thank them for their service and their 1st Lieutenant John D. Gamble , Commander sacrifice.Roger Anaya God Bless You wherever you are. AIRFIElD CONSTRuCTION PROjECT: VFW POST OFFICERS: EXCERPT FROM: A World War II Memoir by Joe Bergstein (Los Alamos Resident) Commander: Roger Anaya This excerpt is from a memoir authored by Joe Bergstein describing his military career, Phone: (505) 672-0314 specifically his experiences in Bataan during WWII and as a POW of the Japanese E-mail: [email protected] military. This excerpt occurred in early months of 1943. Sr. Vice Cdr: Art Brown Phone: (505) 239-6901 E-mail: [email protected] I was from McKeesport. He was from Pittsburgh’s South Hills. He became the best friendBill Stewart I ever (Stew) had. We looked had justme upreceived on my ourfirst evening evening rice at Lipa and because Stew brought he had a heard duck Jr. Vice Cdr: Jason Lott egg, which he broke and beat up in his canteen cup, and divided over our rice Phone: (505) 231-2640 E-mail: [email protected] rations. A duck egg could be bought from the Filipinos for a month’s pay, so Stew’s gift was most generous. It was also very welcome because eggs are rich in protein. Quartermaster: Eluterio “Eli” Garcia Phone: (505) 662-4453 The Nips started paying us, the enlisted men, 3 pesos a month at this camp. on Geneva Convention Chaplain: E-mail: [email protected] Valenzuela treatment of POWs, which was otherwise completely ignored. We were told that Phone: (505) 310-9065 weOur were officers being received paid at themore. same It wasrate aas gesture Nip soldiers toward of thethe same rank, but that most E-mail: [email protected] of our pay was being invested in Japanese war bonds, payable after they won the Judge Advocate: Bob Loy war. As I have mentioned, a month’s pay could buy an egg; or a coconut, or three Phone: (505) 695-9562 small bananas, or a quarter-kilo of tobacco. Or it could be invested in a surreptitious E-mail: [email protected] crap game; surreptitious because the Nips did not permit gambling. Being caught Post Surgeon: Jim Nesmith at it brought the offenders terrible beatings, which I learned one night to my great Phone: (505) 231-5308 sorrow and greater pain. We were also issued one cigarette a day. I started smoking E-mail: [email protected] Service Officer: Jim Nesmith four lengths and smoked them in a little cigarette holder I made. I became addicted Phone: (505) 231-5308 E-mail: [email protected] onbecause that one I figured cigarette that a ifday. there were any pleasure in it, I had to have it. I cut it into Adjutant: Eluterio “Eli” Garcia Phone: (505) 662-4453 task was to level the rolling hill country for the runway and ramp areas, digging The airfield construction project was in its earliest stages when I arrived. Our first Historian: E-mail: [email protected] Elkins took us the better part of a year. There were no bulldozers or graders. The work Phone: (505) 662-4634 dirt and rocks from high areas and filling low areas. That was a huge task that E-mail: [email protected] of the shovels were sturdy American products. The rest were makeshifts with Facility Mgr: Victor Valenzuela was done entirely with hand tools, picks, mattocks, and shovels. Fewer than a fifth Phone: (505) 310-9065 barefoot. Even those lucky enough to have shoes were forbidden to wear them at E-mail: [email protected] work.flimsy Ourblades feet that toughened appeared enough to have to disregardbeen cut from rocks old and gasoline protruding drums. roots. We We worked wore 1st Yr Trustee: Jack Boyd Phone: (505) 500-5965 E-mail: [email protected] them g-strings) issued by the Nips. Some guys wore homemade foot gear we called go-aheadswhatever rags around were the left camp of our after khakis work. or one-size-fits-all breechclouts (we called 2nd Yr Trustee: Paul Elkins Phone: (505) 662-4634 For digging out the high areas, we were divided into two-man teams, each with a E-mail: [email protected] pick and a shovel. Stew and I always worked together. Each team was assigned a contract each day, initially 16 cubic meters of dirt to be dug out and shoveled back, 3rd Yr Trustee: Nick Mezins Phone: (505) 662-4946 leaving a strip of level ground one meter wide between the wall in front and the E-mail: [email protected] loose dirt piled up behind us. The Nip engineers measured the height of the cut Newsletter Edr. Jason Lott and then set the width and depth of each contract so that each pair would have 16 Phone: (505) 231-2640 cubic meters to move, leaving a straight wall all along the line for the start of the E-mail: [email protected] next day’s work. House Cmte: Roger Anaya The highest contracts were the easiest. We isolated our sector from the contracts on Eluterio “Eli” Garcia either side by cutting a slot down each side with a pick, then undermined it to the Art Brown back edge of the contract leaving two pillars to support it. We left a mound of loose Jason Lott earth under the cut so the cut would roll back when it fell, instead of just slumping. Bob Loy Victor Valenzuela We took turns cutting out the pillars while the partner on top watched for any sign of cracking.
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