VFW Core Values

Green Township Post 10380 Veterans of Foreign Wars

May 2020

To always put the interests of our members first Treat donors as partners in our cause Promote patriotism Honor military service Ensure the care of veterans and their families Serve our communities Promote a positive image of the VFW Respect the diversity of veteran opinions

VFW Mission

Welcome from Commander Mike Donnelly

To foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas conflicts

To serve our veterans, the military, and our communities

To advocate on behalf of all veterans

The Post meeting is cancelled until further notice Third Thursday each month

7:30 p.m. Nathanael Greene Lodge, lower level

6394 Wesselman Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45247

513.598.3100 (Call Lodge for meeting can-

Meeting Date Staff Meeting Date

The 2020 Staff meetings will be

Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

June 10

July 8, August 12,

September 9, October 7, November 11,

December 9

Nathanael Greene Lodge

I hope everyone is doing well and are getting along ok during our time apart. I have been busy working on the Post website (www.vfw10380.org). If you get a chance, please take a look at it and let me know what you think– good or bad!

Update on the events we usually have this time of year:

The informal Flag Retirement Ceremony in March was cancelled

The Cars and Courage Car Show in April was cancelled and the Cruise-Ins at Christine’s postponed

Our March, April and May meetings were cancelled

Poppy Days at Kroger in May were cancelled

Memorial Day “Ceremony” has been thoughtfully redesigned by comrade Bill Ostermeyer to allow everyone an opportunity continue to honor and remember our deceased Veterans (see page 3)

The Post 10380 Memorial Golf Outing in June is cancelled

The Green Township July 4th Concert and Fireworks are cancelled

Our Charity giving will be reduced this year due to loss of income from the Golf Outing, Post Sponsorships, July 4th Concert and Fireworks (beer sales) and donations from Memorial Day Poppy Days.

Our Rent Raffle drawings will be held at our next meeting, hopefully, in June. At this time, we anticipate June 18 will be our return to monthly meetings and following current safe guidelines (face coverings, hand washing, etc.)

We were notified by the State of Ohio VFW that our April election of Post officers must be conducted with a minimum of 5 members present, and results must be submitted by May. We were able to hold our election electronically, with a total of 8 members present to vote, on April 16, the date of our April meeting. Everyone that was nominated was elected resulting in no change in elected officers; appointed positions also remain the same.

New News:

We welcome two new members: Pat Mulvaney, recruited by Bill Rocklin and Joel Dulashanti, who was an at-large member who recently moved to the area. You might remember that Joel visited our Post meeting a couple of years ago at the invitation from our Post Purple Heart members. As usual, Joel was treated with comradeship which he remembered when he looked for a Post to join. He picked ours!

Thank you comrades! Stay healthy and be safe! We should be together soon! Mike

Upcoming Events

On This Memorial Day

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VFW Post 10380

is disappointed that

it has been

necessary to cancel

these 2020 events

due to COVID-19.

Be assured that we

are working to make

these events even

better in 2021.

July 4th Annual

Concert & Fireworks

at Kuliga Park

Memorial Day 2020

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VFW Post 10380 Memorial Day

will look different this year

Monday, May 25, 2020

8:00 a.m.—8:00 p.m.

Green Township Veterans Park

6303 Harrison Avenue

Due to COVID-19 we must forego our usual Memorial Day Ceremony. However, we encourage the public to

visit the Veterans Plaza to view these tribute memorials to WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

(Please maintain social distancing and face covering.)

Thank you to comrade Bill Ostermeyer for the display designs, construction and inspiration of this new way to

REMEMBER.

Rest in Peace

Post 10380 Comrades

Thomas Anderson

Carl Grueninger

Lee Jesse

Robert Jones

Donald Rudler

Robert Yust

World War I Poppy Cross Memorial World War II Iwo Jima

Vietnam

Memorial

Korean War

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Celebrating Major Ed Burke’s 100th Birthday!

In April, Green Township Trustees, VFW Post 10380 comrades and friends joined in wishing Ed an unusual, but

memorable, Happy Birthday due to the Coronavirus quarantine. Observing the 6’ social distancing, everyone sang

Happy Birthday and clapped as a parade of Green Township Police Department, with sirens wailing,

came to a stop at Ed’s home, exited the cars, and saluted this local American Hero.

Happy 100th Birthday

Ed Burke!

Lf: Carolyn Abrams,

Bob Abrams, Charlie

Wilke, Mike Donnelly,

Jim Crane, Mary

Droder and Tom

Schmitz pose with

Ed Burke

Rt: Interview with

Channel 9 News

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Legacy of Courage II, New Stories of Honor Flight Veterans

by Cheryl Popp and Peter Bronson

More than seventy years have passed, but Ed Burke still cannot speak about what he saw at Omaha

Beach during the Normandy invasion. The words die in his throat, choked by scars and pain. “I still

sort of break up when I talk about that,” he said, dipping his head to wipe reddened eyes. “I get

emotional.”

One young man who died there still reminds him that death in battle is random and indifferent: 1st

Lieutenant Joseph Phillipson.

“We had just landed and took turns leading. He was my youngest platoon commander, and it was his

turn. He was a good-looking kid from California. We were going through hedgerows and one of the

men stepped on Bouncing Betty mine. It killed Joe and his staff sergeant. But another man there with

them survived. It just blew his shirt off and he wasn’t touched. Somehow he was protected.”

Almost seventy years later, Burke returned to Normandy and visited the cemetery where Phillipson was buried. He found the

California boy’s cross along with others that marked the graves of men under his command.

Capt. Burke has the distinction of being the only company commander in the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion who made it through

from D-Day to the end of the war without being killed, wounded, captured or sent to the hospital with battle fatigue. He found in

some of the most vicious battles in Europe, earning ten combat decorations for valor. He clutched the ground under tanks and

jeeps as enemy bullets tore through steel and artillery shook the earth. He had to issue the orders and watch his men die.

But nothing was harder than writing letters home to their mothers and fathers. “It was terrible, terrible. Especially if I knew the

guy. That was just a terrible letter to write.”

Unlike so many veterans who were followed home by nightmares, he came home and never lost a wink of sleep. “I had no

problems whatsoever,” he said. “I was so overjoyed to get home in one piece. The only thing that kept me going was prayer.

There are no atheists in foxholes or Tank Destroyers. Prayer was the only thing that brought me home. My family, friends and

future wife, Betty Lou Hudepohl, were praying for me.”

They were nearly married before he shipped out. “But I didn’t know if I would come back,” he said. So they waited.

Five days after he came home they had a wedding. Within five more days he was enrolled in law school at the University of

Cincinnati—doing what so many veterans did in those years: He left death and war behind as far and as fast as possible, and got

on with the business of life.

Most men who served in World War II enlisted or were drafted when the U.S. entered the war after the surprise attack on Pearl

Harbor in 1941. But Burke started to plan for his service as early as 1938. As a student at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, he

began to notice that, “All the worldwide news was about Hitler and his invasion (of Czechoslovakia). I thought I’d better get some

training.”

He aimed for something reasonably protected. “I thought I’d get in the artillery and be ten miles back from the front lines, where

I’d be safe.”

Instead he wound up commanding Tank Destroyers that not only fought in the front lines, but often attacked ahead of the infantry.

Burke took his ROTC commission from Xavier University in 1942. The day after his graduation he was on a train to Fort Bragg,

North Carolina, the off to Texas.

“We were getting a terrible beating in North Africa. We were completely outmatched by the Germans’ Tiger and Panther tanks.

They decided we needed something to combat those tanks so in August of 1942 they opened the Tank Destroyer School at Camp

Hood, Texas.

Their motto and mission was to “SEEK, STRIKE and DESTROY” enemy tanks.

“One of the Tank Destroyer battalions needed a man, so they grabbed me and I went to Europe with the 29th Infantry. Our motto

was ‘Let’s go’.”

Ed Burke’s Story

To read more of Ed’s story and other veterans’ stories, visit https://www.honorflighttristate.org/shop

Your purchase helps to send more American Veterans to see their memorials in Washington, D.C.

Honoring Ed Burke

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On May 16, 2012 Ed received a letter from the Consul General of France in

Chicago informing him that, on February 27, 2012, by decree of The President of

the French Republic, he was chosen to receive the Knight of the Legion of

Honor medal for his valorous

actions in France and Western

Europe during WW II.

This outstanding distinction,

created by Napoleon, is the

highest honor that France can

bestow on an individual to

show their gratitude and

remembrance of remarkable

accomplishments

contributing to the liberation

of France.

Ed Burke, U.S. Army

Veteran, received the Knight

of the Legion of Honor

medal from Cmdr. Mike

Donnelly at a ceremony held

at the VFW Post meeting on

July 18, 2012

Ed Burke’s

family proudly

attended the

ceremony to see

the Knight of

the Legion of

Honor medal

presented by

Cmdr. Mike

Donnelly

On March 15, 1945

the Silver Star was

awarded to then

Captain Ed Burke

for Gallantry in

Action against the

enemy in Germany

on February 23,

1945 and again on

February 27, 1945.

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History of Memorial Day

Jack Snyder

Public Health

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

The first large observance was held that year at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

The ceremonies centered around the mourning-draped veranda of the Arlington mansion, once the home of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Various Washington officials, including Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, presided over the ceremonies. After speeches, children from the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home and members of the GAR made their way through the cemetery, strewing flowers on both Union and Confederate graves, reciting prayers and singing hymns.

Local Observances Claim To Be First Local springtime tributes to the Civil War dead already had been held in various places. One of the first occurred in Columbus, Miss., April 25, 1866, when a group of women visited a cemetery to decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers who had fallen in battle at Shiloh. Nearby were the graves of Union soldiers, neglected because they were the enemy. Disturbed at the sight of the bare graves, the women placed some of their flowers on those graves, as well.

Today, cities in the North and the South claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1866. Both Macon and Columbus, Ga., claim the title, as well as Richmond, Va. The village of Boalsburg, Pa., claims it began there two years earlier. A stone in a Carbondale, Ill., cemetery carries the statement that the first Decoration Day ceremony took place there on April 29, 1866. Carbondale was the wartime home of Gen. Logan. Approximately 25 places have been named in connection with the origin of Memorial Day, many of them in the South where most of the war dead were buried.

Official Birthplace Declared In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y., the “birthplace” of Memorial Day. There, a ceremony on May 5, 1866, honored local veterans who had fought in the Civil War. Businesses closed and residents flew flags at half-staff. Supporters of Waterloo’s claim say earlier observances in other places were either informal, not community-wide or one-time events.

By the end of the 19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held on May 30 throughout the nation. State legislatures passed proclamations designating the day, and the Army and Navy adopted regulations for proper observance at their facilities.

It was not until after World War I, however, that the day was expanded to honor those who have died in all American wars. In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress, though it is still often called Decoration Day. It was then also placed on the last Monday in May, as were some other federal holidays.

Some States Have Confederate Observances Many Southern states also have their own days for honoring the Confederate dead. Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day on the last Monday of April, Alabama on the fourth Monday of April, and Georgia on April 26. North and South Carolina observe it on May 10, Louisiana on June 3 and Tennessee calls that date Confed-erate Decoration Day. Texas celebrates Confederate Heroes Day January 19 and Virginia calls the last Monday in May Confeder-ate Memorial Day.

Gen. Logan’s order for his posts to decorate graves in 1868 “with the choicest flowers of springtime” urged: “We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. ... Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.”

The crowd attending the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was approximately the same size as those that attend today’s observance, about 5,000 people. Then, as now, small American flags were placed on each grave — a tradition followed at many national cemeteries today. In recent years, the custom has grown in many families to decorate the graves of all departed loved ones.

The origins of special services to honor those who die in war can be found in antiquity. The Athenian leader Pericles offered a tribute to the fallen heroes of the Peloponnesian War over 24 centuries ago that could be applied today to the 1.1 million Americans who have died in the nation’s wars: “Not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.”

To ensure the sacrifices of America’s fallen heroes are never forgotten, in December 2000, the U.S. Congress passed and the president signed into law “The National Moment of Remembrance Act,” P.L. 106-579, creating the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. The commission’s charter is to “encourage the people of the United States to give something back to their country, which provides them so much freedom and opportunity” by encouraging and coordinating commemorations in the United States of Memorial Day and the National Moment of Remembrance.

The National Moment of Remembrance encourages all Americans to pause wherever they are at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day for a minute of silence to remember and honor those who have died in service to the nation. As Moment of Remembrance founder Carmella LaSpada states: “It’s a way we can all help put the memorial back in Memorial Day.” Source: https://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp

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Tom Anderson

Mike Donnelly

Bill Daniel

Old Hickory Division to Receive Presidential Unit Citation

by Kyle Rempfer March 18, 2020

1 K

A red rose is placed on the headstone of John Iannuzzo, a 30th Infantry Division soldier killed in action in 1944. His headstone remains at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France. (David Vincent/AP) President Donald Trump has directed the Army to award the Presidential Unit Citation to the 30th Infantry Division, the White House said in a statement Tuesday evening (March 17). Eight units within the 30th were already recognized for their actions in the European theater of World War II after the war. However, the president has directed the Army to honor the remainder of the division for their actions during the battle of Mortain, France. “This action rightfully recognizes our Veterans who triumphed against incredible odds, as well as those who died during a critical battle that helped ensure the Allied victory in Europe,” the president said in his statement. “Nicknamed the ‘Old Hickory Division’ because its soldiers hailed from National Guard units from North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia – all states closely associated with President Andrew Jackson – the 30th Division Soldiers proved as tough as their unit’s namesake,” the statement reads. Soldiers from the 30th took up defensive positions around the small town of Mortain after relieving the st Infantry Division on Aug. 6, 1944. Following the Normandy invasion two months earlier, the German High Command was preparing for a massive counter -offensive to “throw the Allied Armies back into the sea,” according to a National Guard history of the battle. Adolf Hitler ordered the movement of large amounts of infantry and armor into the area near Mortain, located roughly 150 miles from Paris. Old Hickory soldiers awoke in their foxholes to an attack by an entire German Panzer Corps meant to break their lines. “They found themselves confronted by overwhelming enemy armor, and the German Panzers broke through their lines, ” the president’s statement reads. "The Old Hickory Division, however, did not stop fighting. It pressed its cooks, clerks, and drivers into service as riflemen." The 30th’s artillery began a barrage of fire meant to beat back the German forces encircling American troops. The cannons were joined at daybreak by U.S. and U.K. close air support, which devastated German tanks and mechanized columns attempting to reach the French coast. By the afternoon of Aug. 7, the German attack had stalled in its tracks, and the 30th ’s soldiers began a counterattack to relieve its trapped elements. Five more days of intense fighting followed. “More than 2,000 Old Hickory Soldiers were killed or wounded during the weeklong battle, but their efforts and sacrifice would have a profound impact on the course of history,” the president’s statement concluded. Today, the 30th is still around in the form of the North Carolina National Guard ’s 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, which retains the same unit patch as the old division. The 30th ABCT most recently deployed to Kuwait in November. Bradley fighting vehicles from the unit were temporarily sent into Syria to guard oil fields from a potential Islamic State resurgence last fall. Kyle Rempfer is a staff reporter for Military Times, focusing on the U.S. Army. He served an enlistment as an Air Force Special Tactics CCT and JTAC.

Source: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/03/18/old-hickory-division-to-receive-presidential-unit-citation/

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2019-2020

Public Service Recognition Week is dedicated to

honoring our public servants.

Established in 1985, Public Service Recognition Week is celebrated the

first week of May, beginning on the first Sunday of the month.

Public Service Recognition Week will be observed from Sunday, May 3 through Saturday, May 9, 2020.

Public Service Recognition Week is organized annually by the Public Employees Roundtable, and its member

organizations to honor the men and women who serve our nation as federal, state, county and local government

employees. Public Service Recognition Week is included in National Military Appreciation Month.

Throughout the country mayors, governors, agency leaders, communities and public service organizations participate

in Public Service Recognition Week by issuing proclamations, hosting award ceremonies and special tribute events,

and delivering messages about the value of public service.

Public Service Recognition Week encourages government leaders and public servants from all backgrounds to

participate, by showing appreciation to their employees and colleagues and by sharing their stories of

excellence in public service

Source: https://militarybenefits.info/public-service-recognition-week

Commander Mike Donnelly presented check and certificate to Firefighter Elliot Bergman

VFW Post 10380

Green Township

Firefighter of the Year

VFW Post 10380

Green Township

Policeman of the Year

Commander Mike Donnelly presented check and certificate to Policeman Troy Biggs

Post 10380

members were

pleased to

recognize these

outstanding

public servants

of

Green Township

at the

Post 10380

February

meeting.

Thank you

for

your service.

Meeting Winners

Hamilton County Veterans’ Service Office

230 E. 9th Street (9th & Sycamore) Cinti. OH

Room 1100 (1st floor) 513.946.3300

To assist you in filing a claim, contact one of the

following Veterans Service Officers (VSO) directly:

Roger Giblin, 513.684.2661—(Post 10380

comrade) VFW Hamilton County VSO

Calvin Wooten, 513.946.3300 — Hamilton

County VSO / Veterans Treatment Court

Coordinator

William Daniels, 513-946-3300 Hamilton

County VSO

Mike Burgess, 812.537.8819 — Dearborn County Veteran Service Office (VSO) , 165 Mary Street Rm. 100, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

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Information Corner

Attendance:

Split-the-Pot:

$100 Raffle:

$50 Raffle:

VA Contact Information VA Benefits: 800.827.1000

Beneficiaries in receipt of Pension Benefits: 877.294.6380

Debt Management: 800.827.0648

Education (GI Bill): 888.442.4551

Health Care Benefits: 877.222.8387

Status of Headstones/Markers: 800.697.6947

Life Insurance: 800.669.8477

Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD): 800.829.4833

Special Issues—Gulf War / Agent Orange / Project Shad / Mustard Agents and Lewisite / Ionizing Radiation: 800.749.8387

How Do I Join?

VFW Post 10380 always welcomes

new members.

Contact Ben Staubach 513.941.6868 or

Mike Donnelly

513.675.4249

for eligibility requirements.

To all May

Birthdays

We extend a warm welcome to the following

new members who transferred in/joined our Post in

April.

Pat Mulvaney

Joel Dulashanti

We appreciate you choosing Post 10380 and hope you enjoy

yourself. We welcome your suggestions and encourage you to

become actively involved.

Please ask us for help if / when you need it.

If you like us, invite a buddy; if you don't, please tell us why.

Local Veteran Service Officers

“Hey, Have You Heard This One?”

Larry

I changed my iPod's name to Titanic.

It's syncing now.

Voice

God Bless America

2020 Calendar of Annual Events

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January

February

7 Harrison’s Tomb

9 Four Chaplains

Memorial Service at

St. Boniface Church

March

21 Flag Retirement

Ceremony

April

9 CruiseIn at Christine’s

19 Kite Fly Veterans Park

25 Cars & Courage Car

Show — Diamond

Oaks

Family Kite Fly at

Veterans Park

May

14 CruiseIn at Christine’s

Poppy Days

Fundraiser Dent Kroger

25 Post 10380 Memorial

Day Ceremony

Cheviot Memorial

Parade

June

1 Memorial Day Golf Outing at Aston Oaks

11 CruiseIn at Christine’s

July

3 Green Township

July 4th Celebration

at Kuliga Park

9 CruiseIn at Christine’s

August

13 CruiseIn at Christine’s

20 Grill-Out/Post Meeting

29 Green Township Kids Fun Day at Veterans Park

September

3 Harvest Home Parade

10 CruiseIn at Christine’s

October

3 Flag Retirement

Ceremony

Post 10380 Annual Raffle tickets available

November

Poppy Days

Fundraiser Dent Kroger

11 Post 10380 Veterans

Day Ceremony

Cheviot Veterans

Parade

Community Veterans

Day Ceremonies Reminder: Annual Dues

December

4 Green Township Winterfest 6 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony

Reminders

Illness & Bereavement

Comrades, if you or your spouse are admitted to a Cincinnati area hospital,

please contact:

Ben Staubach 513.941.6868

Funeral Service

If you would like our Post Honor Guard to conduct a VFW ceremony

at a funeral service, please contact Bob Abrams 513.609.6379

Newsletter You can also view it in color on our

website www.vfw10380.org

For additional information on

services or programs, or to be added to or

removed from this mailing, contact Mike Donnelly

513.675.4249 or email to vfwpost10380 @gmail.com

Post 10380 Officers

Commander:

Mike Donnelly

Senior Vice-Commander

Dan Wilcox Junior Vice-Commander

Ed Kramer Quartermaster

Tom Schmitz Adjutant

Charlie Wilke

Judge Advocate

Don Willwerth

Chaplain

Bob Abrams Surgeon

Jim Jansen Officer of the Day

Ron Kelly Guard

Bill Soto

Membership

Ben Staubach

Service Officer

Jerry Fatora

Trustee 1 Year

Jim Stanghetti Trustee 2 Year

Donnie Becker Trustee 3 Year

Larry Chuma Illness & Bereavement

Ben Staubach

Monthly: 2nd Thursday, 5:30 pm—Cruise-In at Christine’s, April through September

3rd Thursday, 7:30 pm—Post 10380 Meeting at Nathanael Greene Lodge

Charlie Wilke Member of

VFW Post 10380 196th LIB Vietnam

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Please Support Our Valued Sponsors

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Diamond

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

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513.521.9749

Platinum

Sponsors

The Remke Family in Memory of Bill Remke

Tony & Roberta Michel

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Please Support Our Valued Sponsors

Green Township Trustees

Triffon Callos

David Linnenberg

Tony Rosiello

Fiscal Officer Tom Strauss

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Please support our loyal partners listed here.

With them, Post 10380 will be successful in providing help and education to our honored veterans, active military, and their families.

Lori & Greg Conners

Partners

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Bronze

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Thank you for your support

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Veterans Association Bart West

Honorable Steve Chabot

U.S. Representative

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Cincinnati, OH 45238

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Bob Abrams

Member of

VFW Post 10380

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11099 Deerfield Road

Cincinnati, OH 45242

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5774 Bridgetown Road

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American Legion

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James & Jennifer

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Plumbing & Drain

Services

Joe Kelly Construction

513.509.1978

Honorable Bill Seitz

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Honorable

Denise Driehaus

Hamilton County

Commissioner

Siemerling Tile Co.

3160 Beekman Street

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513.725.0037

Roger F. Sand

Member of

VFW Post 10380

Korean War Veteran

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Navy Coast

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In Memory

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In Memory of

Tom Anderson

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5282 Crookshank Road

513.922.3466

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4279 Delhi Road

Cincinnati, OH 45238

513.921.1133

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513.621.2020

Jerry Hollenkamp

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3862 Race Road

Cincinnati, OH 45211

Bill Soto

Member of

VFW Post 10380

3rd Marine Division

Vietnam

Murphy Home

Improvement

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Cincinnati, OH 45211

513.922.8989

Brogan-Hesketh

Formal Wear

4109 Glenway Avenue

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513.244.2800

Joe’s Watermill Inn

5753 Harrison Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45248

513.574.6622

Don Danner

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US Army

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513.574.2233

Zang’s Autobody

4165 Harrison Avenue

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Printing

3509 Harrison Avenue

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513.662.2225

Price Hill Chili

4920 Glenway Avenue

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513.471.9507

Niedhard Minges

Funeral Home

3155 Harrison Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45211

Charles C. Young

Funeral Home

Body Works Ltd.

4293 Harrison Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45211

513.574.3676

Central Fabricators, Inc.

408 Poplar Street

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513.621.1240

Mary Droder

Star One Realtors

513.607.4666

Military Order of the

Purple Heart

Chapter 3620

Dusty Rhodes

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USO of

Central and Southern Ohio

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Corp

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The Navy defends the right to travel and trade freely on the world’s oceans and protects national interests overseas.

The U. S. Air Force protects Ameri-can interests at home and abroad with a focus on air power.

The Marine Corps is often first on the ground in combat situations.

As the oldest branch of the U.S. Military, the Army protects the secu-rity of the United States and its re-sources.

Green Township Post 10380

Veterans of Foreign Wars

c/o 3777 Indian Brave Trail

Cleves, OH 45002

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The Coast Guard protects America’s waterways and deploys with the Navy during wartime.

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CINCINNATI, OH

PERMIT # 5930