Greetings Compatriots,

Last month at our April dinner meeting, we enjoyed an excellent and controversial presentation about the fate of famous aviatrix, Amelia Earhart. Those on hand enjoyed it a lot. It was also a thrill to learn that our chapter received many awards including Chapter of the Year. This is lasting recognition of the hard work of our past chapter president, Curtis Porter, our Registrar, Leon Smith, our secretary Jerry Hereford and Treasurer Paul Waddell along with the rest of our board members. We are so fortunate to have such a dedicated and hard working group.

This month we will be celebrating Memorial Day. Memorial Day always occurs on the last Monday of May and was formerly known as Decoration Day following the Civil War. By the early 1900’s the holiday was day of remembrance for soldiers of all wars. This year marks a decade of war that will hopefully be winding down for many of our military.

We will also be celebrating Armed Forces Day this month and there are still thousands of our military in harms way and we will be remembering them as well. Our color guard is planning both Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day activities, leading with the Field of Honor in Newport Beach where other color guards will be present and we will fire the muskets. Our Memorial Day activities will take place in San Clemente at the library.

Our May chapter dinner will be held at Marie Callender’s in Irvine on May 15th so remember to get your rsvp’s to Curtis Porter right away. Our May program look’s to be very exciting and educational.

In Compatriotism, Richard Bent

Updated 15 May 2012 [top]