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COMMANDER:
Bruce Ruthven
1ST VICE COMMANDER: Jonathan Ruthven
2DN VICE COMMANDER: Tim Kesel
3RD VICE COMMANDER: Bob Phenes
ADJUTANT: Brian
Walters
CHAPLAIN:
Tom Linden
HISTORIAN:
Bryan Fisher
TREASURER: Raymond
Lawson
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS: Fred Merscher
ADVISORS: Ernie
Bishop
Lester
Ellis
November 11, 2007
A Veteran Day message to our membership and friends.
The Sons of The American legion as a committee of The American Legion, we have made it our major goal to provide support to
our nation's veterans and their families. O
n this Veterans Day 2007, we come together as a community to thank our veterans for their service and to let them know that
their service and sacrifices will never be taken for granted.
Americans are blessed to live in a Nation of democracy and freedom. For these blessings we thank our veterans. Here and
in communities across this great country, we honor veterans for protecting and securing democracy and freedom throughout our
history.
Veterans are everyday men and women we know as friends, neighbors, relatives and colleagues who have served our Nation in
extraordinary ways. They have preserved and strengthened our country and have made sacrifices beyond the call of duty. Even
as we honor them this Veterans Day, their successors are courageously defending our freedoms at home and abroad. Veterans
and their families are truly among our finest citizens.
President Abraham Lincoln, who during his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, set forth our obligation to care for
those injured in body and spirit in their defense of our Nation and for the families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Let us today, therefore, remember Lincoln's charge to us:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive
on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for
his widow, and his orphan - to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just, and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
Committee Chairman:
Membership: -----------------Jonathan Ruthven
Americanism:----------------- Ray Lawson
Bryan Fisher
Activities:---------------------- Tim Kesel
Veterans Rehabilitation:--- Tom Linden
Children & Youth:----------- Ed Kemp
Chartities:--------------------- All Officers
Color Guard Captain:------ Ray Lawson
What Have We Done
Americanism Report for 2006 - 2007 Donations: $7,954.00
Volunteer Hours: 2905
Detachment of New York - 2nd
Place
Veterans Rehabilitation Report for 2006 - 2007
Donations: $583.00
Volunteer Hours: 123
Detachment of New York - 2nd
Place
Children & Youth Report for 2006 - 2007
Donations: $1,127.00
Volunteer Hours: 1151
Detachment of New York - 3rd
Place
Donations : June 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007
$8,382.00
Squadron Color Guard
Seventh District - 1st Place
Department of NY -
1st Place
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