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Okay Ladies of Mindsay! The Women's Health Challenge begins on Mother's Day! Get yourself and all your lovely daughters, granddaughters, neices, cousin's, and friends active in this! What a way to get us active and have some physical and cyber fun!
DeLaney and I started a Team so if you want to join up your more than welcome too! Look in the Nebraska State Section for Siouxland Divas and join up! The more the merrier! A way to get some support to boot!
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Last post for a while. After reading an article this morning about what the Army did to a Warrior and how he had to go straight to his gov't offical for help. Knowing what MY family has had to do and are still doing on behalf of my brother because of the Marines, and then rereading the article that was posted by daenarys I thought I better step up again and remind all of our Veteran's, their spouses, and their families what they can do to help our current Warriors out. Active Military personal do what I am suggesting also.
A lot of folks didn't have a family like mine that was active in an organization. Sure they aren't too active now but I and my immiadate family are becoming active again. We were active and involved in an organization called the American Legion and the American Legion Aux. It wasn't just my parents and us kids. 3 out of 4 of my Maternial Uncles are Veterans and all their families were involved also. My Parental Uncle is a Veteran and his family was involved with the VFW or the American Legion. I married into a Military family. My husband is NOW an American Legion Member at the age of 39, Fuck in law (sorry only name I will refer to hubby's dad) is the Vic Commander of his American Legion Post, and Randy's sister and brother in law are both carrerr Army.
Do you all realize that both the VFW and The American Legion and Legion Aux not only help Veterans with social, chartiable, and poltical activies? They also help current active Warriors in their area's Unit District and their home town Districts will step up to the plate also? I wouldn't be suprised if you didn't realize this. You know why. Be ready I am going to bad mouth a set of Vets here! The WWI and II Vets are dying out but before they are dying out they are causing their units to die out. They don't want to hande over control of the Units to the Korean and Veitnam Vets to take over. They are stuck in the past and can't realize the new breed of Veterans are a LOT younger than they are, they are fighing a different type of war they did, and their spouses ten to one are NOT sitting home taking care of the families but on the front lines right next to their spouses. The Korean and Veitnam Vets are slowly taking over control of these Veteran Organizations and are trying to build them back up to what they use to be and are more than HAPPY to recruit our Vet's of today so they can hand over the Organization to my husband's and my age group of Vets.
I got Randy joined up with the American Legion Post in the town our kids go to school, DeLaney and I are in the process of sending in our paperwork to reup our Legion Aux membership to the same Unit Aux and now the American Legion has another org, The Son's of the American Legion (actually the sons could have joined the American Legion Aux but this goes back to old school WWI and II mentality that men can't join a woman's org and vice versa), The Son's org is for any male family member of a Vet to join up and help the Legion and Legion Aux out. Unfortuntally our Unit is a small Inter-Tribal/County Unit and does NOT have a Son's Unit yet. But you should have seen all those Korean/Veitnam Vet's get excited that Randy stepped up at Pow Wow last year and help take down and carry the flags at the closing ceromonies each day and when he joined they got super excited. New Blood. Granted Randy has yet been able to go to a meeting (working all the time) but they know he is there and are using him as a membership driving tool. They are also using myself as a membership driving tool, ten to one from Urban area to rural area the age group between 18-50 has NEW vets that have no clue these Organizations are there to help them and that they are dying out.
I strong encourage ALL VETS both female and male to join the American Legion. The Female Vets and all female family members can join the American Legion Aux and if your area has a Son's of American Legion join up your boys. If they don't be a trend setter and join your male family members who are NOT a vet under the American Legion Aux. And they have benefits for not only the vets but their family memebers. I myself recieved a LOT of benefits as a Jr. Member of the Aux growing up. I learned about my county, state, and federal gov't processes, went to Girl's State and applied and recieved over 25 hundred in scholorship monies for college.
If you don't want to join the American Legion join the VFW and if your Pagan join the Order of the Pentacle Granted the Pagan Vet Association is directed towards Wiccans and most pagans who aren't Wiccan HATE the fact that most orgs are ONLY for Wiccans but that can be changed if more Pagan Vets join the Pagan Vet Association and make them stand up and realize that Wiccans aren't the only Pagan Vets. Hell join all three if you want! You can have more than one membership! Just remember on the VFW and the American Legion that you might be joining a dying unit or a defunt unit but don't let that stop you! Join up get it going again and go out there and get those Veterans and their families to join up and HELP them and others with situations like daenarys article and other situations that the Military is doing to our Warriors!
Here are the links to the organazations:
VFW (for the Aux of VFW you will have to request your district unit information from them)
The Order of the Pentacle (again request infor for the Aux-Also check with your local Pagan Orgs and Groups to see if they have any of their own groups for Pagan Veterans-this is a new organization and not near a LOT of Vets and geared towards Wiccans-they take other Pagan paths but if your NOT Wiccan it could be very irritating to have to deal with Wiccan beliefs constantly)
I am saying this now instead of tomorrow: I want to THANK every single Veteran in the USA for their service, their loyality, and their lives that they have placed on hold and/or gave up for the service and protection of this Country. I want to also THANK all the Warriors in every Military branch that is currently serving our country today.
Veteran's Day usually comes and goes with out a lot of hubbub in a lot of areas of the US. I am not sure why. My own town didn't do to much besides close it's gov't offices and put the flags along main street. You know I was 5 years old when the Veitnam Memorial was unvieled. I actually remember my dad and a lot of my uncles being exstatic over it. But also sad and not because of friends they lost during the conflict, but because the Korean War Vets, still didn't have a National Memorial. And they lost friends in that war also.
When I was 17 years old and a Senior in Highschool, myself and a group of Seniors and Juniors from my school participated in Close Up. Which is a School Program that sends Srs and Jrs to DC for a week to learn, discuss, and debate Federal Politics. It is held so many weeks through out the year and your school doesn't necesarily go with other schools from your state. The states that were with us, were WA, MA, MI, WY, NE (us), KS, WVA, and CT. We were paired with one member of our group and two members from another school from another state in the hotel. What was really eye opening was that the Midwest and West State Schools on our week, made a point to add the Vietnam Memorial to our own intinerary, outside of the Close Up one. A lot of us were either asked to go by our parents who have never been to DC since the Memorial was placed and a few of us went to look up family member's names and get pencil shadings of the names. The East States (includiing MI) had no want to go to the Memorial. Said why bother going? That boggled my mind! But again I grew up in a Military family where the majority of the men served and my own brother was currently in the Navy and served during Desert Storm already, my family was Legion and Legion Aux, and I was chosen for the Legion Girl's State my junior year of highschool. AGain a week where the Legion sends down a Girl and Boy to go to their State Capital's for a week with the Help of a College in town. OUrs was UNL that put us up. And we had to go to lecutres, classes, and to the Capital to learn, discuss, and also debate our State Politics and how they worked. I just couldn't comprhend why so many kids didn't want to go to the Memorial. And either could some of the kids from the Midwest and Western States!
And it all goes back to the fact that every once in a while makes news, cities, towns, and communitis in the US all loose soliders in conflicts and wars, but the Midwest and West can loose whole communities from their warriors dying or just not coming back home from serving their country. And if they choose not to come back it isn't because their town or city has nothing to offer them but they choose not to come back because of what they have seen and do not want to put their troubles on to their family and friends.
I finally convinced my ever loving if not irritating Husband finally to join the Legion this summer. I have yet to join the Legion Aux again because I just can't remember to get the enrollment forms to the lady! My mom is looking through her paperwork (she is this town's Legion Aux Vic Pres) to see if she can find me enrollment forms. The lady that I need to give them too is the Enrollment Officer for Bago's Legion Aux and they haven't ordered any enrollment forms lately because not to many women join and now she can't remember what she did with them. I fully urg any and all ex military vetrans of Desert Strom and Iraqi Freedom to join the Legion and have their spouses and children either join the Legion Aux or Sons of the Legion. The WWII vets are dying out (sad to say) but when they finally relinquish control of the Legion the Korian and Veitnam Vets are more than happy to take the Legion over, get it where it needs to be at to address their newer brothers and sisters of the Military and happily hand it over to the Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom vets when it comes time for it.
It is time for our generation of Warriors and their families to step up to the plate and emerse ourselves in to the workings of not only the Legion but also the VFW! To teach these old timers that a new breed of Vet is out there and to also teach our children and down the line our grandchildren to honor and thank our Militery and our Veterans. Once I get my paper work in for the Bago's Legion Aux, I will be the youngest member of spouses at the age of 30 and the older Indian and White ladies have already made comment that they might have me take over Enrollment for them so I can go hit up my friends and their partners to join. And to get their kids to join either the Aux or Sons of the Legion. The ladies have also said they might have me start the paper work to get the Jr. Aux up and going. My own parents are apart of the Legion and Legion Aux in our town but it is dying out because a WWII Vet who runs it won't let the Korian and Veitnam Vets run it and he has driven out all the members, and since I had Randy join Bago's Legion and I will be joining their Aux, they are debating if they join another Legion and Aux and give up their Ajunte (sp?) and Vic Pres position and join a Legion and Aux that accepts the younger and middle age vets with out alinating them like so many WWII vets do!
And on this note: Thank You to all the Vets and Current Service Men!
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