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TSGT WALTER C. FULDA
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October 2007 |
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COMMANDER'S CORNER |
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To all post volunteers that are making our post a better and more enjoyable place to come eat, socialize, and be with friends, thanks for a super job. Our volunteer for this month goes to a couple that almost no on knows they do anything. Over the past years they sign the volunteer book giving countless hours and mileage serving our local nursing homes and homeless shelters bringing food and donations made by our post members to give to the needy people of our community. They also repair bikes for any needy child in need of one especially at holiday times. To our post volunteers Harry and Susan Moan a hardy handshake and hello for a super job doing over the years. Harry has just gotten over some rough times and says he's back and ready and eager to continue for the post. To our horseshoe team thanks for bringing the District One trophy back to post 3433. A super job guys and girl. Again, a reminder our newsletter will no longer be mailed out to members, this is our last one. As requested last month if you desire a hard copy to call the post or write us to be on a mailing list cause you have no computer. Newsletter will be available at the post home. Remember you can go to our web site for all events and the newsletter at www.vfwpost3433.freeservers.com and enjoy pictures and all. A hardy thanks goes to our Sr.Vice Cdr. Rob Hill for doing a fine job for our post while I had to work out town a week last month. Thanks Rob and all that assisted him. Super Job.
In Comradeship,
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From The President |
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Hello again sisters, We survived another month and everything is still going great. Thank you to all of you for your help in continuing to make our Auxiliary the best ever. We had a little ceremony put together by our Americanism Chairman Ellen Fulda, to celebrate and honor all our POW/MIAs on the 21st of September. Our Post Chaplain, Tom Musolf said the prayer for all our Veterans. Thank you so much to the both of you and also thank you for anyone who participated in honoring our Veterans On behalf of our Auxiliary, I would like to welcome the following new members:
Vicky Blihar
We are so pleased to have you as part of our Auxiliary and we can always use the extra hands in whatever you can do, so please feel free to call me at 851-1632 if there is anything you would like to volunteer for or if you just want to talk. Always remember our meetings are the 1st Tuesday of each month beginning at 7:30, so please come out and join us and voice any concern or opinion or suggestion you may have. I would like to welcome back two of our reinstated sisters:
Tamara Carlson
Don't forget our Fall Conference on October 12th – 14th. The conference will be at the Landmark Hotel in Myrtle Beach. We welcome all of our sisters to join us. If you need information on the hotel for reservations, please contact me and I will get you the info. Hope to see each and everyone there. Sisters, Operation Stand-down will be on the 1st and 2nd of November. We need volunteers on October 31st to help put everything together to hand out to the homeless people, so let me know if you can help and I will gladly give you the location and time and contact person. This is a yearly project. If you have nay donations, such as clothing, bath items, etc., please drop them off at a Goodwill and make sure they know that it is for Operation Stand-down. When you drop off your donations, you should receive a piece of paper stating that it did indeed go for Operation Stand-down, please make sure I get this for our reports. That's all for now and I will see each and everyone at our next meeting on the 2nd of October for our next meeting. Thank you again ladies and keep up the good work.
Yours in friendship and sisterhood,
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From The MOC |
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Sorry I missed last month but we are back on track. First we had the clean up on Sep 8th and got a lot done. Thanks to all who turned out to help. We can't do very much inside the Cootie Shack until we know which refrigerators are staying and which are going. The hospital visit on Sep 9th also went well thanks to all who attended. We are still collecting cans for the homeless so please save them and bring them to the scratch. The Turkey Shoots are fast approaching and we need teams to work them. Please see if you can find a night you can come out and support our biggest money maker. We plan on starting the third week of October and running to December 12th. We will be doing the breakfast at the Post on Saturday 29 September so come out and lend a hand. Our wing night went well and thanks to all who came out to work, we appreciate it.
Attendance at the monthly scratches is very low, if you are a member you should
be there to find out what is going on and also to voice any concerns you have.
If you don't attend then don't complain.
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Sincere condolences are extended to the family of Jean Fahnestock on the death of her sister. Sincere get well wishes are extended to Sisters Edesta Proper (hand surgery) and to Terry Speissegger (wrist Surgery). Sincere get well wishes are also extended to Comrades Ted Medley and Gerry Johnson.
Let us keep Comrade Phil Bates in our prayers.
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Post Chaplain |
MOC Chaplain |
Auxiliary Chaplain |
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Tom Musolf |
Larry Miller |
Shirley Olson |
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Quartermaster's Log
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Membership is coming in slowly. At the present time we have 655 life members, 100 paid up annual members and 204 annual members who have yet to pay. If you are a continuous (annual) member we urge you to send in your dues as soon as you can. If you wish you may pay them at the post and we will send them to National. You do not have to wait to see the Quartermaster to pay your dues, you may leave them with the canteen bartender or any Post officer. A Vet "A veteran – whether active duty, national guard or reserve, retired, or discharged from any of these – is someone who, at one point in his (or her) life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life'. That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." ~ Author unknown
* * *If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the "terminal"? I don't believe in political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
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Sing a song of sixpence
A pocket full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie
The King was in his counting house
Counting out his money
The Queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing
Was that not a tasty dish
To set before a king?
The Maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes
When down came a blackbird
And snapped off her nose!
It was passed down to us with no official version or official interpretation. Rhymes.org.uk and snopes.com give us different interpretations. Blackbeard I don't believe originated it but I think used it as a veiled message to recruit for his prize hunting voyages. Sung in taverns, I'm sure along the coast of the Carolinas.
Sixpence was the salary Blackbeard paid his sailors plus a percentage of the booty from the voyage. Other pirate captains only paid the percentage. I'm sure there were dry runs. With Blackbeard you got paid either way, what a guy.
A pocket full of rye , Blackbeard used it as an additional incentive to join up with him. He promised to give you a leather bag called a pocket used like a canteen filled with rye whiskey.
The four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie described what you'd be doing, dressed in black hidden aboard ship like a surprise baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, described what would happen when the lured ship was brought along side, you'd come out of hiding with a fearsome cry to take over the lured ship and its cargo.
It was the early 1700's, what would you be doing? I may have considered it. Maybe one, just one little voyage would bring in enough to open maybe a Tavern, or General Store. There's enough sailors in our Post, have fun with your imagination .
Editor Mike Petrovick
Pegasus9@att.net
Horse Shoe match
October 27th
1 p.m.
At the Ladson VFW Post
All members and the Auxiliary can play.
Come out and support your team as we play the Goose Creek Post
