Jan/Feb 2006 - Korean War Veterans Association

Our Honor Guard frequently posts the colors at various community
events. We also have mock funerals at schools to emphasize the
tribute of respect we feel in honoring our compatriots. We march, or
ride, in numerous parades in the surrounding area. We provide
scholarships to area high school graduates and participate in veterans
programs at our VA medical center.
We-are proud to have served our country and continue to encourage
school kid and adults to stand up and be counted as patriots of
the greatest nation on the face of this earth.
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Mary Anna Roemke
(L-R) Sy Weiss, Ted Nichols, Bob Lefkowitz of Ch. 15
On June 13, 2005, chapter members took a bus trip to
Washington, D.C. It was a great honor and privilege for us to have
been asked to place a beautiful wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldiers on Wednesday of that week. Six of our veterans were
involved with the placing.
Ch. 15’s Bob
Lefkowitz thanks
Italian-American
Club members for
their kindness
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OBERT WURTSB
TSBAUGH – [IL]
Ray Nasser
The chapter has been busily engaged in many veterans’ and civic
groups’ activities. Each week our chapter performs military rites for
our departed comrades. We average about two a week. We place our
National Colors, Korean Standard, Illinois flag, and the flag of the
branch of service of the deceased these rites. As you can see in the
picture we place a rifle, combat boots and helmet near the bier to
symbolize the “striking of the tent.”
30 members at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier (L-R) Gary Sink, Bernard Wisniewski, Chapter Pres., Donald
Perkins, Carl Fowler, Robert Myers, Jimmy Yaney
(L-R) Robert Myers,
Chapter 30, and
SgtMaj M. J.
Watkins, USMC
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The “Striking of the
Tent,” represented in
21’s bier placement
Cpl. Robert Myers was also honored that Friday evening at the
Marine Silent Drill Parade Ceremony as one of the survivors of the
battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where the winters were brutal and the
temperature dipped to 40 below zero with a wind chill factor of 75
below. They also made him an honorary member of the Alpha Co.
and presented him with a medal.
We are very proud of these members, as well as our others—and
of all of the wonderful veterans who have served and are now serving.
January - February F
2006
The Graybeards