LISTEN UP!
NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2007
NeW NEWSLETTER NAME:
And the winner is… Harold Waitsman who suggested the new name, ‘LISTEN UP!’ According to the rules of the contest, announced last spring, Harold wins a free year of JWV dues from Post 126. Thanks to all those who submitted ideas for the newsletter name. Please keep your suggestions and articles coming.
Post 126 General Membership Meetings:
Monday, September 10, 7:30 PM at Temple Beth Shalom.
George LoPresti, a volunteer from BB-62, USS New Jersey, will present a slide show tour of the battleship.
PLEASE NOTE: The first meeting of the re-invigorated Ladies Auxiliary of JWV Post 126 will take place at the same time and location. Bring your spouse or significant other. See the invitation below from President Marlene Epworth.
Monday, October 1, 7:30 PM at Temple Beth Shalom
Norm Sooy, Director of Camden County Veterans Affairs, who will speak on the latest doings of the CCVAC, the Post 126 initiated ramp program and the latest news about veterans benefits.
VETS CLOTHING COLLECTION:
Please bring items of clothing to be donated to the Camden County Veterans Advisory Committee to our October General Meeting.
VINELAND VETS RIVERSHARKS BASEBALL GAMES:
September 6th at 7:00 P.M. For tickets & car pool information, contact PPC’s Ray Rubel at 856-751-8931 or Marshall Baker at 856-751-4578 or Jr. Vice Commander David Singer at 856-424-5618.
NEW DATE!
SOUTH JERSEY VETERANS DINNER DANCE:
The date for the Dance is December 1, 2007. The theme will be remembrance of Pearl Harbor. The location will be the Howard Johnson’s Ballroom 2389 Marlton Pike, Route 70W, Cherry Hill, where we held last June’s Installation breakfast. See the enclosed brochure for prices of tickets and ads for the ad journal. We need YOUR help in soliciting ads from those businesses you patronize.
Card Game at Mark 70:
Monday, September 17, 7:00 P.M.
CAMDEN AREA STAND DOWN OF SOUTH JERSEY, INC.:
Friday, September 21st
A one-day event, which will end at 3:0PM, to serve homeless veterans at the Cherry Hill Armory. If you have registered as a volunteer, you must attend one of the meetings at the Cherry Hill Armory either Tuesday, September 11th or Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 7:00PM, when committee assignments will be made.
PRESIDENT’S PROSE:
Hello Out There….JWV members AND your spouses !!!!
Due to many continued requests from Post #126 members, their wives, significant others and National, the Ladies Auxiliary for Post #126 is being re-activated this Fall. However, your participation is needed to make it work. Meetings will be held simultaneously with regular Post meetings so wives or other interested women can come with their husbands or friends. We hope to encourage NEW Post members by having their wives included on these evenings. The Auxiliary will develop and implement or participate in important programs or projects involving our military and their families. Dues, required by National, will be nominal.
Anyone willing to assume an Auxiliary board member responsibility as V. Pres, Sec’y, Treasurer, or Corresponding Sec’y PLEASE contact Marlene Epworth at Marlkit@aol.com.
Hope to have you join us…..
POWER OF THE COIN:
From SYMBOL ARTS Newsletter:
“The Jewish War Veterans, (JWV), has institutionalized its challenge coin program at the national and Post 126 levels. The Post 126 challenge coins have been presented to community leaders for their outstanding support of returning military and those military being deployed into harms way. We have also presented coins to young men obtaining the Boy Scout rank of "Eagle Scout." Also to those Boy Scouts that have honored our departed veterans by placing flags on their graves prior to Memorial Day for at least three years, now up to 1,000 graves.”
POST 126 WEBSITE:
Remember, the address is WWW.JWV-POST126.ORG and it contains information about the Post Events and Meetings, Post Officers & Contacts,
Post History & Photos, the Beverly Pilgrimage Program, printable Membership Application Form, and Scholarship information.
TAPS:
Post 126 sends condolences to the family of Sid Kessler.
COMMUNICATIONS:
If you have an email address, but have not received an email message from the Post in the last month, please send your name and email address to dsinger26@comcast.net . Due to computer difficulties, it was necessary to reconstruct the email list and some addresses may have been dropped or changed.
Respectfully submitted,
David Singer, Post 126
Adjutant
PRESS RELEASE FROM JWV NATIONAL COMMANDER NORMAN ROSENSHEIN:
As
National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans, I am also proud to
announce the formation of the
Persian Gulf
and Global War on
Terrorism Outreach Committee at the National Level under the
chairmanship of Colonel Nelson L. Mellitz, USAFR, Ret. This
committee has two major goals: 1) assist the GWOT veterans and their
families while they are deployed and 2) aid the
Persian Gulf and
GWOT veterans and their families at home. Both of these goals are
consistent with the mission that has motivated the JWV since its
founding in 1896.
Since the start of the GWOT on September 11, 2001, the JWV has been
extremely active in supporting all United States military and their
families by:
a) Giving special care and attention to the families of active
duty service persons both at home and overseas,
b) Sending care and holiday packages to troops in harm's
way, "Support Our Servicemen and Women Overseas,"
c) Recommending and encouraging congressional representatives
to pass authorization and appropriation laws in support of increased
benefits for GWOT and all veterans,
d) Working with the Coalition of Veterans Organizations to
increase veteran's benefits,
e) Providing "Service Officers" as Ombudsmen with the Veterans
Affairs and military hospitals and centers throughout the country,
f) Contributing funding and volunteers to readiness support
centers at military posts, bases, and stations,
g) Greeting deploying and returning troops from the GWOT,
h) Providing employment networking opportunities,
i) and much, much, more.
Our
returning military and families of active duty, National Guard,
and reserve component members face a myriad of difficult transition
issues upon their return to United States based military jobs or to
civilian life. Even if our service members are fortunate enough to
avoid the severe physical injuries faced by so many, they return to
careers and marriages that have been severely impacted by their
service and face problems with non-physical wounds, such as
Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder.
As the original founders of the JWV, members of the Union Army,
joined with veterans of the Spanish-American War to form a larger
organization that continued to welcome veterans of WWI and all
succeeding conflicts, we in the Jewish War Veterans will join with
the newest veterans of the Persian Gulf and Global War on
Terrorism. In this way, the JWV continues "The Mission: The
Veteran." We will increase our efforts to reach out to these newest
veterans and continue the unbroken chain of Jewish military serving
Jewish military (L'Dor V'Dor) that goes back to 1896 and will
continue through the 21st century.