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VETS IN CRISIS HOTLIN1.800.273.82

President - Dan Caruthe309-738-54

[email protected] President-Terry Lyn

[email protected] Rom

563.359.32

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Membership - Larry Tschapp309.788.27

[email protected] Service Ofcers (VS

Al “Butch” Huber-VS309.721.14

Steve Lowther-VS309.737.29

VVA National Ofc800.882.13

VA Outpatient Clinic Bettendo563.332.85

VA Med Cent IA C319.338.0581 & 800.346.18

IL Dept of Veterans AffaVSO Dan Bebb

309.793.14RI Cty Vet Ast & VS

Todd Harlo309.558.35

VET CENTER (Counselin309.762.69

IL Vet Employ ReJohn To

309.764.87IA Vet Affairs & VS

David Woo563.326.87

Honor Guard Co-CaptaDennis Laird - Funer

309.278.34Andy Anderson - Parad

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CHapTER 29

A messAge from yourpresidentA friend and business associateRalph Harker passed recently.When I read his obituary and

discovered he was a Koreanvet I was disappointed I didnot know of this fact untilit was too late. Because hewas quiet and unassuming bynature his military service wasnot something he shared. Hispassing gave reason to wonderhow many brother Vietnamvets are still holding back from“going public’ about their

service.

Please get vets that aren’tmembers to look into ourChapter. That would be good forus. If they ‘go public’ and sharesome of their experiences-goodor bad-it may lighten the loadfor them, and that would begood for them. We’ve all lostfriends and family over the

years. The one common threadis once your gone it is too latefor a lot of things.

Let’s talk about representationand participation in Chapter299. I have been introducinga pretty fair amount of new items and changes

(sometimes substantial,oftentimes controversial) tohow the Chapter operates.The use and implementation

of Event Planning Guides(EPG) has been consuming alot of volunteer man-hoursto date. This will continue,until we get all committees(there are about 30 to date)on board. The EPG process isinstrumental in establishing aworking, balanced budget. Thecommon thread throughout theupgrade procedure is a plan is

formulated, rough drafts areprepared, meetings are held,until a document is established.The document is then takenbefore the Board of Directors(BOD) where a motion is madeto approve, then a second, thendiscussion. When this processis completed the BOD makes adecision by voting.

In the event the idea is sound,it will be moved up to the nextlevel, which is approval, by theMembership. The procedure of a motion, second and discussionis same as the BOD procedure.

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INSIDE: Minutes and Motions; Page 2 • pRESIDENT’S mESSagE; pagE 8 • aRMY HeRo and nFL Legend; Page 9 • www.IGNORED LOSSES OF THE VIETNAM WAR - TApS REpORT - upcOMING EVENTS

“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit

violence on those who would harm us.”George Orwell

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Volume 27 Issue 6 shoulder to shoulde2

MINuTES OF VVA299 MEMbERSHIp MEETING-MAy 21ST, 2013

Meeng Called to Order by

President Dan Carothers.

The Pledge of Allegiancewas recited followed by

moment of silence,

emembering our fallen

nd missing Brothers and

isters. Thirty-six Members

were present. Also, a

moment of silence was

sked for the Tornado

icms and families in

Oklahoma City.

President’s Comments –

Dan conrmed a quorum of

8% of the membership was

present.

wearing in ceremony

was presented for

newly elected NaonalConvenon Delegates

nd other ocers not

previously sworn in.

Dan called for adopon of

he agenda, Bill Albracht

moved, moon seconded

nd approved.

President Dan requested

pproval of the Minutes

or the April Membership

Meeng, as presented in

he STS. Larry Tschappat

moved, moon seconded

nd approved.

The Board of Directors

t their May meeng

pproved all special Event

Planning Guides presented

tonight previously.

President Dan presented

the Budget Proposal for2013-2014. Bill Albracht

moved, moon was

seconded to approve.

Discussion followed and

moon was approved with

one abstenon.

Honor Flight – Mike Haney

announced that the Honor

Flight on August 29th

would have only Vietnam

Veterans for guardians. We

will sponsor 3 guardians,

with a drawing to be held

at our June meeng for

those posions.

Commiee Reports

Membership – Larry

Tschappat reported

387 members and 42

AVVA members. Calling

reminder for meengs

for local members will be

changed to a standard

message sent out the

Friday before meengs.

The Event Planning Guide

for the Membership was

presented. Gary White

moved for acceptance,

moon was seconded, and

moon was approved.

Grants and Appropriaons

– President Dan requested

approval of the Review

Planning Guide for

$10,000 budgeted. Larry

Tschappat moved, moon

was seconded, discussionfollowed. Moon was

approved. Terry Lynch

reported on approval for

the following expenditures:

Child Abuse Council

Lifesaver Program, Sue

Swisher ($100); Quad Cies

Alliance for Immigraon

($200); RI/Milan School

District 1st Day Fund

($300); and Silver Star level

of $100 to RI Class of 1964

for the school’s Vietnam

Memorial. Terry reported

total expenditures to date

of $1,150.

President Dan presented

the Planning Guide for the

Administrave Overheadand Review Planning

Guide for approval.

Larry Tschappat moved,

moon was seconded

and discussion followed.

Queson was called and

a count of the votes was

called for. Moon passed

with 23 yeas, 6 opposed.

President Dan called

for a moon to accept

the Catering Commiee

Event Planning Guide.

Ray Hamilton moved,

moon was seconded

and discussion followed.

Moon was approved.

Honor Guard – Andy

Andersen reported on

past and upcoming even

a very busy upcomingschedule, to be publishe

in the STS.

Vet2Vet – “Frenchy” Eav

reported next visit to Io

City would be June 12th

meeng at Machine She

Treasurer’s Report –

Mike Haney reported

the new format balance

sheet, and Dan explaine

new format. Discussion

followed regarding som

asset valuaons. Preside

Dan recommended

approval be postponed,

pending valuaon of

assets on loan from theFederal Government an

compleon of other are

that are a work in progr

New Business

President’s Award –

presented to past Presid

John Katherman by

our new President Dan

Carothers.

Old Business

Hog Roaster – Ray

Hamilton reported on th

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Volume 27 Issue 6 shoulder to shoulder

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CONTINUED FROM

PAGE ONE

If the Membership by a majority voteat a meeting with an approved quorum

does vote in favor, the motion andpolicy or procedure becomes part of ouoperating procedures.

Hope you all had a great Memorial Day.See you at the June Membershipmeeting.

Dan Carothers, President Chapter 299Call sign………….Thunderball

MINUTES... CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO

ecent events over the past weekend. The potenal

uture funcons with Cordova Drag way & other locaons

hey own will be a work in progress. The commiee

will work with them to try to improve the process. Ray

ecognized all the workers who helped out over the busy

past weekend. He especially thanked Bob Jackson, who

was feeling poorly the whole weekend, but stuck it out

hrough to the end.

Good of the Order

im Kerr announced the upcoming NAACP Annual

reedom Dinner would be held on June 22nd this year at

Rock Island Abbey Staon. Tickets are $50 each and Jimhas them for purchase in advance.

Bill Albracht won the $25 drawing and oered to

purchase adult refreshments aer the meeng at

Roosters. Life Membership drawing was won by Paul

ingard. Meeng was adjourned.

Respecully submied,

Ron Roman, Secretary

VIETNAM HAIKu

Tin roof Vietnam 68.

Monsoon rains did create.

Noise.

Peaceful Noise. Rain.

Quieng Noise. Rain.

Smells, hot, steamy.

Gives way to cool. Rain.

Gives way to fresh. Rain.

Renewal. Rain.

Tin roof rain.

Sleep.

Oh blessed sleep.

With n roof rain.

By Greg McCluskey




A FINAL TOAST FOR THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS –y Bob Greene

• This week, the few remaining

Doolile Raiders will reunite.

• In 1942 the 80 men bombed

okyo in death-defying mission,

etaliaon for Pearl Harbor.

• A case of 80 goblets is

rought to their annual reunions.

When a Raider dies a cup is

pended.

• This year, there are four le.

hey’ll toast the Raiders with

ged cognac, and end reunions.

t’s the cup of brandy that no one

wants to drink. On Tuesday, in

ort Walton Beach, Florida, the

urviving Doolile Raiders will

ather publicly for the last me.

hey once were among the most

niversally admired and revered

men in the United States. There

were 80 of the Raiders in April

942, when they carried out

one of the most courageous and

eart-srring military operaons

n this naon’s history. The mere

menon of their unit’s name, in

hose years, would bring tears to

he eyes of grateful Americans. -

Now only four survive.

Aer Japan ‘s sneak aack on

earl Harbor, with the United

tates reeling and wounded,

omething dramac was needed

o turn the war eort around.

ven though there were no

riendly airelds close enough

to Japan for the United States to

launch retaliaon, a daring plan

was devised. Sixteen B-25s were

modied so that they could take

o from the deck of an aircracarrier. This had never before

been tried -- sending such big,

heavy bombers from a carrier.

The 16 ve-man crews, under

the command of Lt. Col. James

Doolile, who himself ew the

lead plane o the USS Hornet,

knew that they would not be

able to return to the carrier. They

would have to hit Japan and

then hope to make it to China

for a safe landing. But on the

day of the raid, the Japanesemilitary caught wind of the plan.

The Raiders were told that they

would have to take o from

much farther out in the Pacic

Ocean than they had counted

on. They were told that because

of this they would not have

enough fuel to make it to safety.

- And those men went anyway.

They bombed Tokyo, and then

ew as far as they could. Four

planes crash-landed; 11 more

crews bailed out, and three of

the Raiders died. Eight more

were captured; three were

executed. Another died of

starvaon in a Japanese prison

camp. One crew made it to

Russia.

Beginning in 1946, the surviving

Raiders have held a reunion

each April, to commemorate

the mission. The reunion is in a

dierent city each year. In 1959,

the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a

gesture of respect and gratude,

presented the Doolile Raiders

with a set of 80 silver goblets.

Each goblet was engraved withthe name of a Raider.

Every year, a wooden display

case bearing all 80 goblets is

transported to the reunion city.

Each me a Raider passes away,

his goblet is turned upside down

in the case at the next reunion,

as his old friends bear solemn

witness. Also in the wooden

case is a bole of 1896 Hennessy

Very Special cognac. The year

is not happenstance: 1896 was

when Jimmy Doolile was born.There has always been a plan:

When there are only two

surviving Raiders, they would

open the bole, at last drink

from it, and toast their comrades

who preceded them in death.

As 2013 began, there were ve

living Raiders; then, in February,

Tom Grin passed away at age

96.

What a man he was. Aer

bailing out of his plane over a

mountainous Chinese forest

aer the Tokyo raid, he became

ill with malaria, and almost died.

When he recovered, he was sent

to Europe to y more combat

missions. He was shot down,

captured, and spent 22 months

in a German prisoner of war

camp.

The selessness of these men,

the sheer guts ... there wasa passage in the Cincinna

Enquirer obituary for Mr. Grin

that, on the surface, had nothing

to do with the war, but that

emblemazes the depth of his

sense of duty and devoon:

“When his wife became ill and

needed to go into a nursing

home, he visited her every day.

He walked from his house to the

nursing home, fed his wife and at

the end of the day brought home

her clothes. At night, he washed

and ironed her clothes. Then

he walked them up to her ro

the next morning. He did tha

for three years unl her dea

2005.”

So now, out of the original 8

only four Raiders remain: Di

Cole (Doolile’s co-pilot on t

Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edw

Saylor and David Thatcher.

All are in their 90s. They hav

decided that there are too fe

them for the public reunions

connue.

The events in Fort Walton Be

this week will mark the end.

has come full circle; Florida ‘nearby Eglin Field was wher

Raiders trained in secrecy fo

Tokyo mission.

The town is planning to do a

can to honor the men: a six-

day celebraon of their valo

including luncheons, a dinne

and a parade.

The men have decided that

aer this nal public reunion

they will wait unl a later da

-- some me this year -- to g

together once more, inform

and in absolute privacy. That

when they will open the bo

of brandy. The years are ow

by too swily now; they are

going to wait unl there are

two of them.

They will ll the four remain

upturned goblets.

- And raise them in a toastto those who are gone.

Submied by Chief Master S

Dan Johnson




Heroes of tHe VietnAm generAtion BySENATOR JAMES WEbb VA.he rapidly disappearing

ohort of Americans that

ndured the Great Depression

nd then fought World War

is receiving quite a send-

from the leading lights of

he so-called 60s generaon.

om Brokaw has published

wo oral histories of “The

Greatest Generaon” that

eature ordinary people doing

heir duty and suggests that

uch conduct was historically

nique.

Chris Mahews of “Hardball”

s fond of wring columns

raising the Navy service of

is father while casgang his

wn baby boomer generaon

or its alleged soness and

ack of struggle. William

Benne gave a startling

ondescending speech at the

Naval Academy a few years

go comparing the heroism

f the “D-Day Generaon” to

he drugs-and-sex nihilism of

he “Woodstock Generaon.”

And Steven Spielberg, in

romong his lm “Saving

rivate Ryan,” was careful

o jusfy his portrayals of

oldiers in acon based on

he supposedly unique nature

f World War II.

An irony is at work here. Lest

we forget, the World War II

eneraon now being lionized

lso brought us the Vietnam

War, a conict which today’s

most conspicuous voices by

nd large opposed, and in

which few of them served.

he “best and brightest” of

he Vietnam age group once

made headlines by casgang

heir parents for bringing

about the war in which they

would not ght, which has

become the war they refuse

to remember.

Pundits back then invented

a term for this animus: the

“generaon gap.” Long,

plainve arcles and even

books were wrien examining

its manifestaons. Campus

leaders, who claimed

precocious wisdom through

the magical process of

reading a few controversial

books, urged fellow baby

boomers not to trust anyoneover 30. Their elders who

had survived the Depression

and fought the largest war

in history were looked down

upon as shallow, materialisc

and out of touch.

Those of us who grew up, on

the other side of the picket

line from that era’s counter-

culture can’t help but feel

a lile leery of this sudden

gush of appreciaon for our

elders from the leading lights

of the old counter-culture.

Then and now, the naonal

conversaon has proceeded

from the dubious assumpon

that those who came of age

during Vietnam are a unied

generaon in the same sense

as their parents were and

thus are capable of being

spoken for through these

ckle elites.

In truth, the “Vietnam

generaon” is a misnomer.

Those who came of age during that war are

permanently divided by

dierent reacons to a whole

range of counter-cultural

agendas and nothing divides

them more deeply than the

personal ramicaons of the

war itself. The sizable poron

of the Vietnam age group

who declined to support the

counter-cultural agenda,

and especially the men

and women who opted to

serve in the military durin

the Vietnam War, are quit

dierent from their peers

who for decades have clai

to speak for them. In fact,

they are much like the Wo

War II generaon itself. Fo

them, Woodstock was a s

show, college protestors w

spoiled brats who would

have beneted from havin

to work a few jobs in orde

to pay their tuion, and

Vietnam represented not

intellectual exercise in dra

avoidance, or protest marbut a baleeld that was

just as brutal as those the

fathers faced in World Wa

and Korea.

Few who served during

Vietnam ever complained

generaon gap. The men

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ignored Losses of tHe VietnAm WAr

By Louise Esola

One crisp fall morning in1987, at the dedicaon

of the Philadelphia

Vietnam Veterans

Memorial, Thomas

Corcoran was nearly as

heartbroken as he was

n June 1969, when two

uniformed men knocked

on his door in Torresdale.They told him that his

on Patrick M. Corcoran,

19, had been killed, and

ost at sea.

The harsh nality of it

ll, as 646 Philadelphia

amilies know well,

never went away for this

grieving father.

Crowding the sidewalks

near Penn’s Landing

n 1987, many of

hose families stood at

he newly dedicated

memorial to see the

names of their boys,

their brothers, their

fathers etched in stone.

Patrick Corcoran’s namewas not there.

While creang the

memorial, volunteers

relied on Defense

Department casualty lists

to nd local kids killed in

Southeast Asia. However,

those lists of more than58,000 Americans did

not include the 74 sailors

who died on the USS

Frank E. Evans when it

collided at 3:14 a.m. June

3, 1969, with an aircra

carrier o the coast of

Vietnam. The smaller

ship was torn in two, itsbow sinking, in three

minutes, into the South

China Sea.

The headlines of that

war’s only shipwreck

were jolng. Three

brothers from a small

town in Nebraska were

killed. A Navy chief would

survive, only to learnthat his son had not.

Seaman Corcoran was

asleep in his rack, along

with 31 shipmates. Only

six in that compartment

would survive. Of the 74

dead, only one body was

recovered.

Dubbed among the

“workhorses” of the

Navy, the 25-year-old

Evans had already served

during World War II and

the Korean War. In 1969,

it was supporng U.S.

forces from o the coast

of Vietnam.

That May, Corcoran and

his shipmates spent 10

days in the hellish heat

and humidity, loading

hundreds of 50-pound

shells to re in support of

Marines on the ground.

When Pat Corcoran

graduated from Fathe

Judge High School in1968, the dra was

breathing down his ne

Hundreds of Philly kid

had already come hom

in boxes. The Navy, it w

said, was the safest be

So the kid who used

to deliver pizzas andnewspapers enlisted,

eventually boarding th

Evans, which had alre

collected four bale

stars for acons durin

Vietnam. Within week

Patrick Corcoran was

dead, a casualty of the

Vietnam War - thoughsome disagreed.

The accident occurred

outside the ocial

“combat zone,” a

designaon that ignor

the fact that Seventh

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n and out of that war

one almost weekly.

That designaon kept

he Evans casuales o

he Vietnam Veterans

Memorial when it was

unveiled in Washington

n 1982.

Five years later, in

Philadelphia, Tom

Corcoran couldn’t nd

his son’s name. The

grocery store butcher, 59,

ought to have his son

ecognized, and the next

year, Patrick M. Corcoran

was etched in the stone.

t was front-page news.

There is a poignant

photograph of Tom

Corcoran standing alone

n front of the memorial,

wiping his tears with a

handkerchief and leaning

on a wooden cane. A

eporter said the father

“stretched out his right

hand and caressed the

leers with his ngers,

as one would stroke a

child.” Tom Corcoran died

in 2006.

Unfortunately, the

Wall in Washington

sll doesn’t recognize

Corcoran and his 73

shipmates, ve of them

Pennsylvanians. The

USS Frank E. Evans

Associaon, a group

of veterans and family

members that once

included Tom Corcoran,

has peoned the

government for years.

Leers have been

wrien, bills introduced

in Congress. The

secretary of the Navy has

supported the eort, but

the Defense Department

connues to deny them.

In Philadelphia, the

memorial associaon

recently posted short

biographies of the men

on the wall. Patrick

Corcoran was not

menoned.

Their war is not over.

From Larry Tschappat

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AVVA meeting

AVVA hater meengs are held on the 3rd Tesda of the month at 6:30m at the Rok Island Arsenal

afeteria. We wold like for o to join s with or ideas and thoghts. come join s in arades, heling

with hog roasts and other harit events along with the memers of the VVA hater. We look forward to

seeing o!

HEROES OF THE VIETNAM

GENERATION CONTINUED

FROM PAGE FIVE

who fought World War II were

heir heroes and role models.

hey honored their father’service by emulang it, and

argely agreed with their

ather’s wisdom in aempng

o stop Communism’s reach in

outheast Asia.

he most accurate poll of

heir atudes (Harris, 1980)

howed that 91 percent

were glad they’d served their

ountry, 74 percent enjoyed

heir me in the service, and

9 percent agreed with the

tatement that “our troops

were asked to ght in a war

which our polical leaders

n Washington would not

et them win.” And most

mportantly, the casgaon

hey received upon returning

ome was not from the World

War II generaon, but from

he very elites in their ageroup who supposedly spoke

or them.

Nine million men served in

the military during Vietnam

War, three million of whom

went to the Vietnam

Theater. Contrary to popular

mythology, two-thirds of

these were volunteers, and

73 percent of those who diedwere volunteers.

While some aenon has

been paid recently to the

plight of our prisoners of

war, most of whom were

pilots; there has been lile

recognion of how brutal the

war was for those who fought

it on the ground.

Dropped onto the enemy’s

terrain 12,000 miles away

from home, America’s cizen-

soldiers performed with a

tenacity and quality that may

never be truly understood.

Those who believe the war

was fought incompletely on a

taccal level should consider

Hanoi’s recent admission that

1.4 million of its soldiers died

on the baleeld, comparedto 58,000 total U.S. dead.

Those who believe that it

was a “dirty lile war” where

the bombs did all the work

might contemplate that is was

the most costly war the U.S.

Marine Corps has ever fought:

ve mes as many dead as

World War I, three mes

as many dead as in Korea,and more total killed and

wounded than in all of World

War II.

Signicantly, these sacrices

were being made at a me

the United States was deeply

divided over our eort in

Vietnam. The baby-boom

generaon had cracked

apart along class lines as

America’s young men were

making dicult, life-or-death

choices about serving. The

beer academic instuons

became focal points for

vitriolic protest against

the war, with few of their

graduates going into the

military. Harvard College,

which had lost 691 alumni

in World War II, lost a total

of 12 men in Vietnam fromthe classes of 1962 through

1972 combined. Those classes

at Princeton lost six, at MIT

two. The media turned ev

more hosle. And frequen

the reward for a young

man’s having gone throug

the trauma of combat was

to be greeted by his peers

with studied indierence

outright hoslity.

*****submied by Greg

McCluskey – Part Two to

appear next month




MEMbERSHIp REpORT JuNE 2013

As of May 27th, the Chapter has 388 members.

Our newest annual member is Tim Bolyard, and

Ron Camper is our newest Life member. Welcome

aboard, guys. Associates of VVA Chapter 299

currently have 41 members.

Being today is Memorial Day, I’d like to menon

Duane Winkler, who joined VVA in 1985 and was

a Charter member of our Chapter in 1987. At theme, he was already suering from the eects of

Agent Orange. Unfortunately, Duane was one of the

original Air Force “Ranch-hands” who loaded the

various defoliate chemicals into the sprayer aircra.

Daily contact with these chemicals ensured him

numerous health problems early on aer leaving

Vietnam, and Duane died at the young age of 47,

looking twice his age and in a lot of pain.

As it stands, his name is not on The Wall, but it

should be because his fate was sealed for an early

death before he ever set foot on that Freedom Bird

to come home. His early eorts to get the VA to

recognize those health problems associated with

Agent Orange exposure helped all of us whose

health was aected by it later in life. With that

closing thought, I ask that you please remember ou

comrade Duane Winkler in a prayer once in awhile.Thank you.

Respecully,

Larry Tschappat - Membership Chairman

UPCOMING EVENTS – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED1. VET 2 VET VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO VISIT

HOSPITALIZED VETERANS – CALL FRENCHY TO

VOLUNTEER AT [563] 386-1696

2. HOG ROASTER – This is our largest Chapter

fundraiser – Volunteers ALWAYS Needed – Call Ray

Hamilton at [309] 523-3259

3. FLAG DAY is June 14th

4. AMVETS ANNUAL 4th of July Parade in East

Moline. Chapter 299 will have a presence at this

event. Take a few hours of your Independence Dayand show support for the Chapter Color Guard and

Hog Roaster. Our guys “sucked it up” last year in

100+ degree weather. A good plan is: have Grandma

follow you and drop o your car very near the

parade route in early morning.

Grandma returns you

and the Grandchildren

to the parade route

that aernoon, you

aend with Grand

kids, you all get a

lifeme “memory”,

Grandma gets a break

from all of you, and

you walk a city block

to your previously

parked car.



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tApsFollowing is a list of funerals at which military honors were performed by the combined eorts of the VVA Chapter

299, VVA Chapter 776, and the MAVA (Mexican American Veterans Associaon) Honor Guards. Included in the list

are the dates of the funerals, names, ages, and branches of service in which these veterans served. Any chapter 2

members are designated by bold leers and underlined.

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Marh 29, 2013 Rihard Seidel 75 u. S. Nav (cold War & Vietnam Era veteran)

Aril 01, 2013 Jennifer Marn 41 u. S. Arm (persian Glf veteran)

Aril 12, 2013 Jerome Harer 82 u. S. Arm (Korea War veteran)

Aril 16, 2013 charles Naert 64 u. S. Arm (Vietnam War veteran)

Aril 16, 2013 Daniel Moore 66 u. S. Arm (Vietnam War veteran)

Aril 17, 2013 William Hghes 90 u. S. Nav (World War II veteran)

Ma 09, 2013 Frank Marnez Jr. 68 u. S. Nav (Vietnam War veteran)

Ma 21, 2013 David Kendall 67 u. S. Nav ( Vietnam War veteran)

Ma 31, 2013 Joseh Rangel 73 u. S. Marine cor (Vietnam era veteran)

ne 04, 2013 Edgar G. Skaggs 65 u. S. Nav (Vietnam era veteran)

THANKS FOR THE SuppORT

It was with gratude that Andy Andersen

and Bob Brooks presented a cercate of

appreciaon to Julie Morse manager of Aldi

Foods, Inc. of Davenport, Iowa on April 12,

2013.

Julie and her sta have always supported

our veteran’s community for over six years,

ensuring that our needs were met, somemes

even with unmely requests. Julie is always

willing to go the extra mile to help. Chapter

299 is very grateful for her support.

From Bob Brooks



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