AL Post 290 Newsletter

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Our first quarterly newsletter is now available.  We hope this will be a good way to promote the post and get the word out to the community about what we do.

There are guidelines for contributing content in the newsletter.  We will also be looking for a member to profile for the next issue.

The newsletter can be found under a new website link here: http://www.post290tx.com/newsletter

The view link may require a Google account otherwise the download link should work. Let me know if there are any access or download problems.

Thanks to all that contributed and helped put this together,

Ben

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Ben Adair
Commander
American Legion Post 290
Dripping Springs TX

United States Flag to be displayed at half-staff - Dec 7

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The American Legion   U.S. Flag at half-staff e-mail notification. Flag at half-staff In accordance with United States Code Title 36, Chapter 1, Section 129, the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation (per Flag Code section 7(m)) for the United States Flag to be displayed at half-staff for the entire day on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Saturday, December 7. The full text of the proclamation can be found by clicking here.   Learn more about The Citizens Flag Alliance: www.cfa-inc.org

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HFOT Key Ceremony - Thanks

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Thanks to those that were able to make it to the Key Ceremony for Justin Perez-Gorda.  The family now has their new home in time for Christmas.

The color guard made us look good, once again.

Here is the KVUE story: http://www.kvue.com/news/Wounded-veteran--family-receive-a-home-for-the-holidays-234335371.html

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Ben Adair
Commander
American Legion Post 290
Dripping Springs TX

Wreaths Across America - Cabela's Dec 8 2:30PM

"Cabela's has asked me to reach out to all of our area Veterans organizations to invite everyone to join Cabela's at 2:30PM on Sunday December 8th for the Wreaths Across America ceremony to send our Wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery. The wreaths will be placed at Arlington this December 14th on National Wreaths Across America Day."

 
Hello Sgt. Murphy,

Thank you so much for helping us out with this event at such short notice. Below is the tentative timeline we have put together. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated and this timeline is very flexible to what is convenient to your schedule.

Items we would love help with include:
A keynote speaker -we have a full script available for him to use and ideally it would be the highest ranking officer available.
Color Guard and/or Honor Guard
Horse drawn carriage
A trumpet player to play TAPS at the end of the ceremony

Timeline:
2:30pm                National Anthem
2:35pm                 Moment of Silence for Cody and other fallen heroes (one minute)
2:40pm                 Color Guard posts the colors
2:50pm                 Opening Remarks (keynote speaker)
3:00pm                 Wreath Laying Ceremony - Horse drawn carriage procession - up to the bronze statue carrying the wreath. Representative places the wreath on the easel. Color Guard presents arms at the laying of each wreath, boyscout volunteers lay wreaths. Different scout for each wreath (7 total) "Now (person's name will lay a holiday wreath in memory...."(script provided need boys' names). After last wreath laid, Color Guard will order arms.
3:15pm                 Closing Remarks (keynote speaker)
3:20pm                 Honoring our employee veterans by name
3:25pm                 Re-enlisting induction ceremony for soldier led by Sgt. Kevin Murphy from Ft. Hood
After:                    Any other veteran groups that want to speak, can.
End:                       Retire the colors, thank everyone, have TAPS played preferably by a trumpet.

Again thank you so much. If you have any suggestions or thoughts please let us know. We want to make sure we properly honor our fallen heroes.

Best Regards,

Margaret


Margaret Potyrala
Cabela's Retail Marketing Manager
Buda, TX, USA
cabelas.com/retail-stores-buda.shtml
512-295-1122

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=SPmtqFciFV0xwoleqZFW_KLiNfybAGYDd5&v=GC6BtKwKaUY

 

How Do You Explain Wreaths Across America To A Friend Who Has Never Been To The Event? We created a playlist of 3 videos that we often share to explain Wreaths Across America and why it matters, from the perspective of the Founder who started donating wreaths over 20 years ago, from an American Gold Star Mother who lost her son, and from the personal stories of those who serve and sacrifice. This is dedicated to the families of our veterans and members of the active military. We will not forget. We will Never Forget. We hope you will join us in our mission to Remember, Honor, & Teach. Sign up for our eNewsletter (see upper right just under the wreath) or click here to see how you can get involved. - See more at: http://about.wreathsacrossamerica.org/?s=#sthash.CThembFq.dpuf

 

http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/

 

Each year at this time, it is always a big push and busy time to manage the last wreath sponsorships going into December's events. We were surprised recently however at a disparity in the numbers. While the numbers are up overall across our 900+ participating locations, the number of wreaths sponsored for Arlington is down. We know a lot of folks who volunteer at Arlington probably do not realize this – it has been more wreaths each year (120,000 in 2012) and we wanted to get this information in the hands of the people who care most about this annual tradition of placing the wreaths. Here's how you can help. Please share the following note by email or with your friends and coworkers. Wreaths Across America was formed in response to a viral email that was sent back in 2005. Perhaps we can do it again – together we can rally support for wreaths that will be placed at Arlington this December 14th on National Wreaths Across America Day. - See more at: http://about.wreathsacrossamerica.org/?s=#sthash.CThembFq.dpuf

 

 

 

Jim Clements 
Phone: 1.512.574.6744
jclements123463@yahoo.com