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August Meeting Notice

On August 20th, 2013 the Korean War Veterans Association, Chapter 189 will hold its monthly Meeting at the John E. Mealy Memorial VFW Post in Port Orange, Florida.

Members arriving for lunch can arrive at 12:00 and choose their meal from the VFW Bar Menu, and socialize during the meal. The regular KWVA Business Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM.

The Speaker for our meeting this month will be LTC Harry Haines. Harry will provide us with a historical perspective of the Korean War over the period from 8 August 1945 through 24 November 1950. Harry is a 1965 graduate of the United States Military Academy and served 28 years in the Regular Army and Reserves. During his service he served at the DMZ in Korea. He retired in 1993 as a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAR. His presentation will cover the era of the Second Russo-Japanese War of 1945, the Occupation of Korea, the North Korean Aggression, the UN Defensive from the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon Landing and Liberation of Seoul, and the Advance to Manchuria and the interjection of the Chinese Communist Forces into the War. This is a lot of history to jam into a short 20 minute presentation and I would urge all Korean Veteran's to join us for fellowship and a brief look back 60 years to an almost forgotten period of history.

As know we are currently maintaining our Korean War display at the New Smyrna Beach Museum just off Canal Street. On July 27th we had a wonderful ceremony observing the 60th Anniversary of the end of hostilities in Korea and the dedication of the Korean War Museum Display. As part of that ceremony we were honored by proclamations from the City of New Smyrna Beach and from the Volusia County Council If you have not visited the display we urge you to drop in and take a trip down memory lane. The Korean War exhibit will be available for viewing at the Smyrna Museum until 15 November 2013 We are very pleased at the items temporarily loaded to the Chapter to allow us to outfit the display. If you have any time and would like to greet and meet people visiting the exhibit, just contact Bob McGuire at 386.323 6401 and we will put you on the payroll.

On May 14th the May 2013 edition of the Kimchi Kourier Newsletter went to press. This is the second newsletter this of the year, for our Chapter, and it looks great. Bob McGuire is the Newsletter Editor and we owe him a debt of gratitude for the newsletter and newspaper publicity he generates on the Chapters behalf. The newsletters was sent out to all of our members through the US Postage System. If you have access to the web, connect to Chapter 189's website, at www.cid189.kwva.org and you can read a copy by going to the upper left hand corner of the home page and clicking on the "189 Newsletter" box.

During the past several months the Chapter has been presenting the "Tell America" Program to a number of organizations. As 2013 has been declared by Congress as the year of the Korean Veteran, we believe we will have additional request for this type of presentation in the near future. If you know an organization that might want to learn about the history of the Korean War please contact Bob McGuire at we would be pleased to set up a presentation.

We recently added a new feature to this website to allow us to post short notices between meetings that might be of interest to some of our members. These notices are posted as Post-It-Notes on a Cork-board background. To reach this Notice Board click on the block at the upper left hand side of the websites Home page marked Chapter Notices. In addition to special notices we would like to place the names of Chapter Members or their families who are sick or in need of our concern. If you have such a request and would like it posted contact Chuck Husbands at 386.760.7163.

Since the beginning of the year Chapter 189 has been serving Coffee and Donuts at the Daytona VA Clinic, on Dunn Avenue in Daytona Beach, on the last Friday of every month. We have taken the months of July and August off but plan to resume the program in September. Someone at the VA plugs in the coffee pot at 5:30AM and we arrive and start giving out the Coffee and Donuts at 7:30 AM. Since the beginning of the year we have met a great many veterans through this service. If you are an early raiser and just want to spend a few hours helping other Veterans come and join us. We are out of there by 10 AM or when the coffee and donuts run out, which ever comes first. If you join us I know you will come away from the experience feeling that you accomplished something positive. We really need some support on this program so if you can help out just contact Chuck Husbands or Bob McGuire at the phone numbers posted elsewhere on this page.

Sick Call: As I write these notes, one of our Chapter 189 - Rose Balzer, the wife of Bob Balzer, is in a nursing home. John Heaphy has been sent home from Hospice and our prayers are with John. Betty Fox has just returned home from the hospital and we welcome her back. Please notify us if you hear of a member who is ill or has been hospitalized so as a community we can keep them in our prayers and wish them total and speedy recovery.