Next Meeting - December 21, 1009
7:30 p.m. (Location: VFW Post 521)
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Post #167 CALENDAR
Chanukah Party - December 13, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Sick and Infirm
Please make an effort to contact our homebound members
to cheer them up.
Anyone having information regarding a joyous occasion,
an illness, hospitalization, or death of a member
or in a member's family, should contact:
Gilbert Miller, Chaplain
Telephone: 410-358-3585
Ask about Mitzvah Cards
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VETERANS
ADMINISTRATION
and
DISABILITY
If you believe you have a service-connected disability or are receiving
VA compensation and believe your condition has worsened, contact
Department of Maryland Commander Erwin Burtnick. The Commander
is a member of the Maryland Veterans Commission. Contact
him at 410-653-5577. He will help refer you to a service officer who
will work with you in filing a claim. You would not go into court without
an attorney. Do not go to the Veterans Administration without a service
officer. There is no charge for representation by a service officer.
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Stamp, Tab, and Coupon Programs
The Post’s Stamp program provides cancelled
stamps to Veterans Administration Hospitals
nationwide for use by recreational services for collection
and rehabilitative art programs.
Aluminum tabs are given to the Ronald
McDonald House to recycle for funds to help cancer
patients at local hospitals.
Your coupons are needed to help support
our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Coast
Guardsmen, and their families stationed at Fort
Meade, Maryland and at overseas locations. Please
bring in your coupons, either clipped or un-clipped,
to show your support and to help extend their purchasing
power. It’s easy to help and costs you
nothing, yet the benefit of your gift goes a long
way, even half way around the world! Your coupons
may be for any product. Military commissaries
accept coupons up to six months beyond their
expiration dates.
Please bring these items to the next meeting.
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Funeral Honors
_____Veterans are entitled to a military honor guard and a burial flag. This must be requested by the family, and proof of service (discharge or separation document) must be presented to the funeral director. In the case of a prepaid funeral, it is recommended that the request be made and the documents be presented at that time. In addition, JWV members are entitled to a JWV honor guard.
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Stamp
Program
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Provides
cancelled stamps to V.A. hospitals nationwide for use
by recreation servicesfor collection and rehabilitation purposes.
Bring stamps to Post meetings or mail them to the stamp program chairman:
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It's
Easy to Help |
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Hospital
Visits
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Members of the post and auxiliary are continuing to provide volunteer services throughout the week at the Baltimore VA Medical Center, and throughout the month at various other VA facilities. Several letters of appreciation have been received from VA hospitals.
Additional volunteers are needed for hospital visits.
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Please
Do
Your Part |
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Support
Scouting
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Do your part for future Generations
Support the Jewish scouting programs of tile Boy scouts and cub scouts.
Support of Boy Scouts is one of the
NATIONAL PROGRAMS OF J.W.V. |
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Mitzvah
Cards |
Mitzvah Cards
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Help
Your Post
While You Save
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Chaplain |
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Anyone
having information regarding a joyous occasion, an illness,
hospitalization, or death of a member, or in a member's
family, should contact:
Gilbert Miller, Chaplain
410-358-3585 |
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Mitzvah Cards...
The perfect way to express congratulations, get well
wishes, sympathy, etc.
6 cards for $10.00 (you complete and maiI, or
$2.50 per card (post completes and maiIs
Purchase is available at post meetings or call Gilbert Miller,
Call 410-358-3585, to place an order. |
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Ladies Auxiliary
Eleanor Chernikoff
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Ladies Auxiliary #167
Eleanor Chernikoff, President
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VA NEWS |
| The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a comprehensive study of women veterans who served in the military during the Vietnam War. The study will explore the effects of their military service upon their mental and physical health. The study, which began in November will last more than four years and will contact approximately 10,000 women. The study will assess the prevalence of post- traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical health conditions for women Vietnam veterans, and explore the relationship between PTSD and other conditions. About 250,000 women veterans served in the military during the Vietnam War and about 7,000 were in or near Vietnam. Those who were in Vietnam, those who served elsewhere in Southeast Asia and those who served in the United States are potential study participants. Women veterans are one of the fastest growing segments of the veteran population. There are approximately 1.8 million women veterans among the nation's total of 23 million living veterans. Women comprise 7.8 percent of the total veteran population and nearly 5.5 percent of all veterans who use VA health care services. VA estimates women veterans will constitute 10.5 percent of the veteran population by 2020 and 9.5 percent of all VA patients. |
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Coupons for Our Servicemembers
Contact - Myra Greenberg, 410-358-2772 |
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| Fort Meade is using the current coupons on the installation and sending the expired coupons, no more than two months at the time they are turned in, to Korea. |
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| They can also use local coupon which do not expire for at least one month from the time they are turned in, such as fast food, local optical companies, etc., but please keep the local coupons separate from the other coupons. |
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