Military Order of the Purple Heart Of the U.S.A., Inc. National Executive Committee Meeting Branson, Missouri 08 July 2019 ARS REPORTING Military Order of the Purple Heart 2 of the U.S.A., Inc. Page 1 INDEX 2 Call to Order 3 3 Pledge of Allegiance 3 4 Invocation 3 5 Roll Call 4 6 Credentials Committee 18 7 National Commander’s Opening Remarks 18 8 Questions/Comments from the NEC Floor 27 9 Credentionals Committee 52 10 National Chaplain’s Comments 52 11 Roll Call 54 12 Announcements 63 13 Additional Proposed Resolutions 130 14 Adjournment 139 15 ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 3 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 Military Order of the Purple Heart 2 of the U.S.A., Inc. 3 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 4 08 JULY 2019 5 (11:06 a.m.) 6 CALL TO ORDER 7 NC GREENLAW: I call this NEC meeting to 8 order. 9 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 10 NC GREENLAW: Face the flag. Stand and face 11 the flag. Senior Vice? 12 SVC GARCIA: Present arms. 13 PATRIOTS: I pledge allegiance to the Flag 14 of the United States of America and to the Republic 15 for which it stands, one nation under God, 16 indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 17 NC GREENLAW: Ready, two. 18 OPENING PRAYER 19 NC GREENLAW: Take your seats -- excuse me, 20 Chaplain. Chaplain? Please stand for the Invocation. 21 CHAPLAIN MILLER: Again, I would ask each 22 individual here to pray in your own personal beliefs 23 as I pray in mine. 24 Your Holy, we do thank you for everything you’ve 25 done for us and for protecting, for giving us safety ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 4 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 coming here to this Convention. Lord, again, I ask 2 you to please watch over and protect each one of us 3 here. Help us to make the right decisions, help us to 4 get rid of our differences from each other and to work 5 together to make this Order what it should be. This, 6 I ask in your name. Amen. 7 PATRIOTS: Amen. 8 NC GREENLAW: Take your seats. Thank you, 9 gentlemen. 10 ROLL CALL 11 NC GREENLAW: I’d like to call -- have the 12 Roll Call. Mr. Adjutant? 13 NA HERNANDEZ: I’m going to do this a 14 little bit differently. I notice a lot of people 15 missing. I’m going to start at the top and go down. 16 For the Regions, I’m not going to -- I guess this 17 year Region IV has the lead. If we can get Region 18 IV to line up once I get down to the name of 19 Frederick Taylor -- I don’t think he’s here, but 20 when you hear Fred Taylor’s name, come up, please 21 start lining up and we’ll go IV, V, VI, III, II, I. 22 Please identify who you are for this first 23 one, what Department. Region Commanders, please 24 take the lead. If there’s a Department missing, not 25 here for the NEC, please identify that by state and ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 5 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 name. 2 I’m going to start first with Douglas 3 Greenlaw? 4 NC GREENLAW: Here. 5 NA HERNANDEZ: Felix Garcia? 6 SVC GARCIA: Here. 7 NA HERNANDEZ: Rick Cherone? 8 JVC CHERONE: Here. 9 NA HERNANDEZ: Phil Moore? 10 NFO MOORE: Here. 11 NA HERNANDEZ: Dennis Wallot? 12 NFC CHAIR WALLOT: Here, sir. 13 NA HERNANDEZ: Al Flyr? 14 PATRIOT FLYR: Here, sir. 15 NA HERNANDEZ: Paul Picard? 16 PATRIOT PICKART: Here, sir. 17 NA HERNANDEZ: David Price, excused. Gary 18 Witt, excused. Bill Suhre, excused. 19 Richard Hunt? 20 NI HUNT: Here, sir. 21 NA HERNANDEZ: Nicholas McIntosh? 22 NPC CHAIR McINTOSH: Here, sir. 23 NA HERNANDEZ: Matt Bridges? 24 (No response) 25 NA HERNANDEZ: Matt Bridges? ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 6 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 (No response) 2 NA HERNANDEZ: Matt Bridges? 3 (No response) 4 NA HERNANDEZ: Charles Eggleston? 5 REG I COM EGGLESTON: Here. 6 NA HERNANDEZ: Chris Vedvick? 7 PATRIOT VEDVICK: Here. 8 NA HERNANDEZ: John Dismer? 9 (No response) 10 NA HERNANDEZ: John D. Dismer? 11 (No response) 12 NA HERNANDEZ: Barry Gasdek? 13 REG III COM GASDEK: Here. 14 NA HERNANDEZ: Lenny Lazzara? 15 REG IV COM LAZZARA: Here. 16 NA HERNANDEZ: Charles Adkins? 17 REG V COM ADKINS: Here, sir. 18 NA HERNANDEZ: James Anderson? 19 REG VI COM ANDERSON: Here, sir. 20 NA HERNANDEZ: Frank Athanason? 21 (No response) 22 NA HERNANDEZ: Frank Athanason? 23 (No response) 24 NA HERNANDEZ: Boyd Barclay? 25 PNC BARCLAY: Here. ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 7 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 NA HERNANDEZ: James Blaylock? 2 (No response) 3 NA HERNANDEZ: James Blaylock? 4 (No response) 5 NA HERNANDEZ: Jim Durkin? 6 (No response) 7 NA HERNANDEZ: Jim Durkin? 8 (No response) 9 NA HERNANDEZ: Hershel Gober? 10 (No response) 11 NA HERNANDEZ: Hershel Gober? 12 (No response) 13 NA HERNANDEZ: Joseph Hems? 14 (No response) 15 NA HERNANDEZ: Joseph Hems? 16 (No response) 17 NA HERNANDEZ: Bill Hutton? 18 (No response) 19 NA HERNANDEZ: Bill Hutton? 20 (No response) 21 NA HERNANDEZ: Patrick Little, excused. 22 Bruce McKenty? 23 (No response) 24 NA HERNANDEZ: Bruce McKenty? 25 (No response) ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 8 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 NA HERNANDEZ: Bob Puskar, excused. Jim 2 Randles? 3 (No response) 4 NA HERNANDEZ: Jim Randles? 5 (No response) 6 NA HERNANDEZ: Jeff Roy? 7 (No response) 8 NA HERNANDEZ: Jeff Roy? 9 (No response) 10 NA HERNANDEZ: Ron Siebels? 11 PNC SIEBELS: Here sir. 12 NA HERNANDEZ: Al Silvano? 13 (No response) 14 NA HERNANDEZ: Al Silvano? 15 (No response) 16 NA HERNANDEZ: Jim Sims? 17 PNC SIMS: Here. 18 NA HERNANDEZ: Region IV, please start 19 lining up. Region IV, please start lining up to the 20 mic, followed by Region V. Fred Taylor? 21 (No response) 22 NA HERNANDEZ: Fred Taylor? 23 (No response) 24 NA HERNANDEZ: Neil Van Ess? 25 (No response) ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 9 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 NA HERNANDEZ: Neil Van Ess? 2 (No response) 3 NA HERNANDEZ: Bill Wroolie? 4 (No response) 5 NA HERNANDEZ: Bill Wroolie? 6 (No response) 7 NA HERNANDEZ: He’s no longer an NEC 8 member, he resigned, excuse me. 9 Region IV, Commander, identify yourself. 10 DEPT COM EBERSBACH: Department of North 11 Carolina, the first Purple Heart State, Bill 12 Ebersbach, Department Commander. 13 NA HERNANDEZ: North Carolina is present. 14 Next Commander? Region IV please, Region IV. 15 Region IV first. Here, I’m going to make it easy, 16 Region IV, Alabama? 17 DEPT COM DAUGHERTY: Daugherty, Department 18 Commander. 19 NA HERNANDEZ: Florida? 20 DEPT COM VEDVICK: Vedvick, Department 21 Commander. 22 NA HERNANDEZ: Georgia? 23 CRED CHAIR HUNT: Patriot Commander -- 24 Patriot Adjutant? 25 NA HERNANDEZ: Sir? ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 10 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 CRED CHAIR HUNT: Each one of those 2 Patriots who are responding that they are voting 3 cannot leave until they have their paddle or they 4 will not have a vote. Would Alabama please approach 5 the mic and receive that paddle? 6 NA VAN HOY: Florida, come next and get 7 yours and let’s proceed. Georgia? 8 DEPT COM FLENER: Flener, Department 9 Commander. 10 NA HERNANDEZ: Mississippi? 11 DEPT COM SHAW: Excuse me, Adjutant, he’s 12 at the hospital. He was not feeling well this 13 morning. He is here, though. 14 NA HERNANDEZ: Identify yourself, who you 15 are please. We are being recorded. 16 DEPT COM SHAW: Todd Shaw, Department 17 Commander, Tennessee. 18 NA HERNANDEZ: Who is missing from 19 Mississippi, name? 20 DEPT COM SHAW: Mr. Truitt Breazeale 21 NA HERNANDEZ: Copy. North Carolina? 22 DEPT COM EBERSBACH: North Carolina, Bill 23 Ebersbach. 24 NA HERNANDEZ: Puerto Rico? 25 (No response) ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 11 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 NA HERNANDEZ: Puerto Rico? 2 (No response) 3 NA HERNANDEZ: Region Commander, if they’re 4 not here, please identify the persons missing. 5 REG IV COM LAZZARA: They’re not here. 6 NA HERNANDEZ: Who’s the name? Puerto 7 Rico, who’s not here, name? 8 REG IV COM LAZZARA: (inaudible). 9 NA HERNANDEZ: South Carolina? 10 DEPT COM LOPEZ: Carl Lopez, Department 11 Commander. 12 NA HERNANDEZ: Tennessee? 13 DEPT COM SHAW: Todd Shaw, Department 14 Commander, Tennessee. 15 NA HERNANDEZ: Region V, start with 16 Arkansas? 17 DEPT COM FERGUSON: Cardner Ferguson, 18 Department Commander. 19 NA HERNANDEZ: Colorado? 20 DEPT COM ELIZALDE: Paco Elizalde, 21 Department Commander. 22 NA HERNANDEZ: Kansas? 23 REG V COM ADKINS: Charles Adkins, 24 Commander, Region V, Mike Callahan from Kansas is 25 excused. ARS REPORTING 08 July 2019 Military Order of the Purple Heart 12 of the U.S.A., Inc. 1 NA HERNANDEZ: New Mexico? 2 DEPT COM COMSTOCK: Pete Comstock, 3 Department Commander. 4 NA HERNANDEZ: Region VI, please start 5 lining up.