On February 16th,
2016, Chapter 189 of the Korean War Veterans
Association will hold their monthly meeting at
the John 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. Our speaker for this meeting will be
Jeffery L. Bumb, who is the Director of Veteran
Service for Volusia County. Jeff served
twenty years in the United States Army, retiring
at the rank of Sergeant First Class spending the
majority of his career with the 101st and 82d
Airborn Divisions. He has been deployed in
the Gulf War, and to Afghanistan and Iraq. His
awards and decorations include the Bronze Star,
the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army
Commendation and Achievement Medal. He was a
qualified jump-master and earned the Senior
Parachutist badge and also the Air Assault
badge. Jeff will discuss his duties as the
Director of Veterans Services in Volusia County
and how he and his staff can provide a variety
of services to our counties Veterans. (See KWVA Postcard Notice
2-16-2016 on our Recent Event Page)
Prior
to our last meeting in January many of our members
travelled to Deland to meet the Governor Scott. At
that meeting her personally presented the Governor's
Veterans Service Award (Medal) to Honorably
discharged Veteran of the US Armed Forces. As part
of this ceremony pictures were taken of each of the
veterans with the Governor. We have just
received copies of those pictures. We are
hoping to show a number of these pictures at the
meeting during lunch if we get the time to get the
presentation together.
On 16 April 2016 the
Department of Florida will hold its annual Convention
at the Waterfront Inn in the Villages, Florida.
All National Members of the KWVA are invited.
This is a one day event and will run from 9 AM to
about 4 PM. There is an open bar at 6 PM and the
Convention Banquet Dinner will be held from 7 PM to 9
PM. Lodging for convention participates and
their families will be available, at the Waterford
Inn, for both Friday and Saturday, at reduced rates,
for those wishing to stay overnight. If
you have any questions about the convention, the meals
or arrangements please contact Chuck Husbands at
386.780.7163. To support the development of the
convention booklet we have been ask if our members
would like to sign up on a "Freedom Fighters" page as
we have in the past. As they are close to
publishing the convention book this will be the last
chance to get your name into the "Freedom Fighters"
page. A form will be available at the February,
the cost is $10 and this donation will help with
offseting some of the cost of publication.
As you know several years
ago the Chapter 189 put together a wonderful Korean
War Display for the Museum in New Smyrna. At that time
we only had the museum space for a limited time. We
recently received word that we can install, on a semi
permanent basis, our Korean War Historical Display of
memorabilia, by local veterans, in a Daytona Beach
Historical Museum. At this time it appears that space
will available and we can start installation of the
display in the museum in the June time frame. If
you have Korean War memorabilia that you would like to
place on loan for the display please contact Robert
McGuire or Robert Hawes.
The special presentation
of the awesome documentary "Chosin" filmed in Korea
that was originally slated for November has been
postponed to early in 2016 so that many of the
snowbirds that join us during the winter will have an
opportunity to see this film . This focal point
of American involvement in the Korean liberation will
have several local participants in attendance.
The date of the new "huge screen" program, along with
other details of the program, will be take place
within the next few months.
During the past several
months the Chapter has been presenting the "Tell
America" Program to a number of organizations. If
you know an organization that might want to learn
about the history of the Korean War please contact
Bob McGuire at 396.323.6401,and he would be
pleased to set up a presentation. We are in the
process of preparing a short brochure on the
history and impact of the Korean War, to go along
with the presentation. We would like to spread the
story of the Korean Conflict for all those who may
never have heard of it, or its impact on our
current global condition.
In
recent days we have become aware that their are
Veterans in our community that have recently died
and have not been provided with an opportunity to
receive a military ceremony in their memory.
Chapter 189 of the KWVA does not
think that this is proper, and have decided to
present a small final military ceremony for any
Veteran that requests it. If you know of a Veteran that needs a
final military ceremony please contact Bob McGuire
at 386.323.6401 and we will attempt to get that
request fulfilled. If you know of someone who is sick or in the
hospital and would like a visit from a member of
the chapter have them contact Bob McGuire or
Chuck Husbands and we will try to make
a personal visit.
