Auxiliary News
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| Betty Randall |
Betty Randall
Congratulations are in order to Jean Shandy, Western District President and her core of officers. May she and her officers have a great year. What a wonderful Convention, great time by all and a lot of work accomplished.
My Thanks to Peters Creek 33 family for a job well done; the food was outstanding, thank you Fred. The awesome presentation by CWO Dan Winnie, Marines and Capt. Ed Szczepanik, Air Force on Why We Serve is unbeatable. The Auxiliary Thanks to them for coming to our meeting and giving their presentation. I listened to CWO Dan in Haines and was even more impressed the second time around. The Juniors held their conference also; they presented to the Auxiliary the Preamble of The American Legion Auxiliary and what each line meant to them. I had several requests from members to put it in my article for next month so here it is;
For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; Adrianne-Defending the constitution To maintain law and order;
Cassidy - to follow the rulesTo foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;
Betty Jo - Americanism is what keeps America free To preserve the memories and incidents of our associations
during the great wars;
Kaitlyn - to remember those whom have served in war To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the Community,
State and Nation;
Kaitlyn - Americans guided by their sense of duty To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses;
Betty Jo - The government is for all the people togetherTo make right master of might;
Cassidy - equal rights for all To promote peace and goodwill on earth; - to get along with all countries To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of Justice, Freedom and Democracy;
Adrianne - to protect freedom To participate in and contribute to the accomplishments
of the aims and purpose of the American Legion; to support the American Legion 110% To consecrate and sanctify our association by our devotion to mutual helpfulness;
Kaitlyn - We lighten the burden of those who suffer because of war.
Some fine words of wisdom from our Junior Auxiliary members, Thank you ever so much.
April is Children and Youth month, and as National says Month of the Military Child. For arts and crafts check out www.monthofthemilitarychild.com, one of the things a Unit can do is provide phone cards so children can keep in touch with their deployed parent.
Department Convention in Fairbanks is April 23 - 26. Visiting us will be National President Jan Pulvermacher-
Ryan. Lets be sure to give her a warm Alaska welcome, I encourage you meet with her and talk with her. All Units need to send in their reports to the Department Chairwomen so they can prepare their reports for Department Convention. Please do this as soon as possible; we do need to give them time to prepare. Election time for Units, April and April, be sure and send in a list of your new
Unit Officers to Department Secretary Judy, she needs then as soon as possible for her various reports.
Busy time for all and I am looking forward to seeing all of you in Fairbanks.
Remember to hug your Veteran today and to hug your Veteran everyday. God Bless All