March
2008 NEWSLETTER
PLACE: THE SIZZLER,
1401 N. HARBOR BLVD.
Michael Finbar Hill, Hon. Consul of Ireland, Chief of Protocol, Los Angeles Consular Corps. Finbar was appointed in 2002 as Consul of Ireland for Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The new post was created by the Irish Government to foster relations between Ireland and Federal, State and Local Authorities in the region, as well as assisting in the further economic, social and educational relationships between Ireland and the US. Finbar is a native of Cork in Ireland, lives with his wife Carmel in Orange County. He has 2 sons who live with their wives and their 4 children in the region.
Chaplain’s Message
to the Members:
“How
can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word and following its rules.
I have tried my best to find you—don’t let me wander from your commands.”
(Psalm 119:9-10, NLT) If we can be
of service to you, please give us a call.
Jim Howland and Hal Dixon
Commander’s Corner:
If you missed the February meeting, I
hope you’ll be able to get to a meeting in the next couple of months.
They will be special. We saw
a real Emmy and walked down memory lane with pictures of the Chicago Cubs and
their “Cubby” fans. Great meeting!!
Thank you George Miller.
I will be sending the Continuous Membership Certificates by
mail and before the March meeting, so watch for them if you were listed in the
newsletter for reaching one of those five year milestone years.
The last weeks of February George
Miller, Jeff Harris, and I will be interviewing candidates from our local
public high schools for the Girls State (June 22-28), Youth
Environmental Leadership Conference (YELC, May 16-19), and Boys State
(June 21-28) programs. The YELC
program is sponsored through the American Legion but taught by the US Forestry
Service and focuses on environmental planning.
It is exclusive to California and was set up in trust by a Legionnaire
with a heart for the environment.
It also provides for scholarships for attendees when they pursue science studies
in college. Girls State is
back in Claremont. I can’t tell you
how glad I am for that. Fresno was
not an ideal city to hold this event, especially since no one up higher would
coordinate transportation. So…until
Girls State can get up to Sacramento, we’re glad for Claremont.
Thank you again to the
Commander’s Club for providing the funding for these and other important
programs we do here in the Post. We
are in a “holding pattern” in regard to our participation in FACES of
Fullerton, (April 26th)
The FACES event is in transition without City funds, so we are waiting
for the committee to settle on a reasonable fee structure for booth space.
If that does not occur, we will sit out this year.
Railroad Days is right around the corner after that (May 3/4).
Sign up sheets will be available at the April meeting.
Once again Bill Hessen and
Kendall Neseiss are getting ready
for the end of year student awards.
We are blessed to have them serving our Post in these programs.
The Post election is coming
soon. If you would like to serve in
the Post, please talk to Ed Paul or one of the committee members before the
election. To see all the exciting
pictures of Post activities, visit the Post website at fullertonpost142.com.
Thank you to Richard Wakefield
for his tireless efforts to make a great site.
Please jot this
number down in case someone you know needs it. 800-342-9647 or
www.militaryonesource.com.
It is the number that all active service members can call
24/7 for help of all kinds. Their
slogan is “You name it. We can
help.”
Upcoming Events:
The officer’s meeting is always the Wednesday prior to the Post meeting
and the Post meetings are always on the second Tuesday.
The next few monthly meetings are:
April 8, May 13 and June 10th.
Please mark your calendars.
Membership rosters
are available for a small charge to cover reproduction.
Call Richard Wakefield. We
can send one in the mail for those unable to make it to the meetings or he can
email the roster to you at no charge.
Just as a reminder, the rosters are for personal use only and should be
destroyed when they are too old to be reliable.
Hospital/Rehabilitation Program.
Please continue to bring things to the meetings or call me (Marilyn) or
Mike/Pat Hyland (996-8743) to
coordinate a home pick up. For more
information about this unique project sponsored by Cloudbreak Development, UC &
United States Veterans Initiative, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) organization), call (562)
499-6717 or visit their web site at www.usvetsinc.org.
To request your
DD-214, go to the National Archives and Records Administration at
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/.
Follow the instructions. You
can also get assistance from the Veteran
Service Office.
(714) 567-7450
Important Dates:
March 1,
Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day; March 5,
Officer’s Meeting at Marilyn’s; March 9, Daylight Savings Time Begins,
Set your clock ahead one hour; March
11, Post Meeting; March 16, Palm Sunday; March 17, St. Patrick’s Day;
March 20, Spring Begins; March 21, Purim, Good Friday; March 23, Easter Sunday.
March 1, Sinking of USS Houston (1942); March 2, Bismarck Sea Battle Began (1943), Raid on North Vietnam Began (Operation Rolling Thunder)(1965); March 3, “Star Spangled Banner” Made US National Anthem (1931), American Forces capture Manila (1945); March 4, Operation Utah (1966); March 6, First Navy Flight Nurse Landed on Iwo Jima (1945), Navy Permanently Assigned 1st Women Aboard an Operational Combat Vessel (USS Eisenhower, 1994); March 7, Remagen Bridge Captured (1945), Operation Ripper Began (1951); March 8, 11 Navy Nurses Imprisoned by Japanese at Santo Tomas Internment Camp (1942), First African-American Woman Bacame an Ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps (1945); March 9, US Forces Land at Vera Cruz, Mexico (1847); March 11, Lend-Lease Becomes Law (1941), Operation Resolve to Win Began (1968); March 12, Girl Scouts of America Founded (1912); March 13, First Women Marine Officer Candidates Arrived at US Midshipmen School, (Women’s Reserve) at Mount Holyoke College, MA (1943); March 14, Punitive Campaign (Mexico) begins (1916); March 15, Battle of Guilford Court House (1781), Third Battle of Monte Cassino (1944), Advisory Campaign begins (first campaign of Vietnam War) (1962); March 17, British forces evacuate Boston (1776), Peninsula Campaign begins (1862), Camp Fire Boys and Girls Established (1910); March 18, 1st Woman Marine Reported for Duty in Vietnam (1967), Operation Breakfast (1969), Operation Dewey Canyon ends (1969); March 19, Operation Iraqi Freedom Began (2003); March 20, British Capture Mandalay (1945); March 21, 1st Woman Enlisted in the US Naval Reserve (1917); March 22, Central Europe Campaign begins (1945), 1st Woman Assigned to Guard the Tomb of the Unknowns (1996); March 23, Battle of Pork Chop Hill (1953); March 24, Operation Allied Force Began (Kosovo) (1999); March 25, Remaining US Ground Forces Leave Somalia (1994); March 26, Battle of Komandorskis (1943), Groundbreaking of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982); March 29, British besiege Charleston, SC (1780), Vicksburg Campaign begins (1863); March 31, Operation Uphold Democracy Ended (1995).
Notes from
February Meeting:
Our two speakers
gave excellent presentations. Barbara
Bowman won three National Emmys for editing the Olympics. She then became a
marketing executive and producer for the ABC TV Network and remains active in
entertainment endeavors. She is
currently working on the Oscar ceremony for later this month.
She said that what you see isn’t usually live but tapes of what they
accumulate over several hours on the red carpet.
Tammy Lechner is a
professional photojournalist. Her first book was
“In the
Minutes for the
December meeting and financial report were reviewed and approved as presented.
Commander Harris
reported on Faces of Fullerton participation, Railroad Days, Boys and
Chaplain Jim Howland
gave us an update on members not able to be with us.
Jim also did our Four Chaplains
tribute. This is done at our
February meeting to honor the four Chaplains of different faiths that gave up
the life vests so four others could live.
They were last seen locking arms as the
Ist. VC George
Miller
reported our guest speaker for March will be the Consul from