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EDITOR’S NOTE: I am building an extensive backlog of chapters that are in a “Non-compliant” status. The reasons for the
“non-compliant” classification vary, e.g., officers are not members of KWVA, election reports not submitted, officer positions are
not filled....whatever.
I would like to get your chapter news and photos in the “Chapters” section. They are not doing you or me any good sitting in the
“Non-compliant” file. But, this is one area of the magazine that is out of my editorial control.
If you have sent news and photos and they do not appear in this section within a couple issues, please contact Jake Feaster to find
out if your chapter is non-compliant. I want to include your submissions and clear out my backlog.
10 CONNECTICUT #1 [CT]
For the Connecticut Veterans Day Parade in 2008, we wanted
to do something “special.“ We have been trying for eight years
to get the Connecticut legislature to give us permission to place
a Korean War Memorial at the Capitol at no expense to the state.
So, we decided that, in addition to our usual parade unit, we
would do a “MASH 4077th” re-enactment.
The “casting call” went out. With the aid of adults and high
school honor students who wanted to help, we put on a great
show, including a Bell-47 Helicopter, complete with stretchers—
and “wounded.”
“Father Mulcahy” gives
spiritual guidance to
“Hot Lips” at Veterans
Day Parade
A very young “Col. Potter” joins
CID 10 at Veterans Day Parade
“Hot Lips,” (with back to camera), Donna Palla, Jim Shelmerdine (holding
sign) at Connecticut Veterans Day Parade
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4077th M.A.S.H. staff at Veterans Day Parade (names unknown); Boom
Box on stretcher is playing “Suicide is Painless”
CID 10 members at Connecticut Veterans Day Parade (L-R) John
Considine, Laurie Bastrarache, Ken White, Jim Doucette, unknown soldier,
Paul Gianelli, Ken Simmons, Wil Boucher, Bob Smith
March – April 2009
The Graybeards