PATRIOT BULLETIN - Military Order of the Purple Heart

PATRIOT BULLETIN
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ADJUTANTS CALL
W
e have a chapter officer change
announcement this month, or, more
accurately, an officer addition. Our recently retired
Service Officer, Tony Moore, has volunteered to
return to duty and is once again available for
counseling and assistance with
veterans claims. He can be
contacted at (512) 417-4132.
Jon Medina has not been
replaced, but still retains
appointment as Service Officer
(we can have more than one),
and hopefully Jon can soon go
through the Department Service
Officer training and earn his
accreditation.
Despite the ―summer break‖
with Chapter 1919 not holding
an event of its own since the
Installation of Officers meeting at Hill’s Café way
back on May 15th, your commander and some of his
staff have nonetheless been really busy putting in
appearances at a variety of public events. In fact,
lately wherever veterans organizations have gathered
collectively, Commander Burkhardt has been on
hand with Chapter 1919’s informational display and
a few volunteer assistants to let people know who we
are and, depending on the audience, to do some
recruiting. As you can see from all the newly signed
up patriots on the facing page opposite, those
opportunities have resulted in the chapter’s best
recruiting success that it has enjoyed in recent years.
He has been especially attentive in making Chapter
1919 appearances at events such as the ―Wounded
Warriors‖ and the ―Wheelers For The Wounded‖
Adventure Weekend, and the Round Rock Express’
―Veterans Appreciation‖ game at Dell Diamond, all
of which specifically included many Iraq and
Afghanistan wounded, and he is finding them to be
receptive to his message about what Chapter 1919
does and receptive to becoming members of MOPH.
Chapter 1919’s next meeting is 228 years exactly,
since the day General George Washington created
the ―badge of military merit,‖ the award we know
today as the Purple Heart, and so each year we
reverently observe ―Purple Heart Day‖ with the
same devotion as we do in honoring George
Washington’s birthday in February. Especially if
CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP STATS
CHAPTER 1919 CURRENT RECORDS
SUMMARY BY COMBINATION OF SERVICE
AND WAR WHEN WOUNDED —TOP SEVEN
ARMY VIETNAM 222
MARINES VIETNAM 86
ARMY WW II 74
ARMY IRAQ / AFGHANISTAN 45
ARMY KOREA 34
AIR FORCE WW II 21
AIR FORCE VIETNAM 18
ALL OTHERS 73
CHAPTER TOTAL…………..571
you are one of our recently
joined members please make
a special effort to be with us
at this event, there is no
better way for you to learn
about the Chapter and the
Order. One of the things we
will do, before the meeting
gets started, is to view our
Power Point slide show of
chapter members. Over 140
members have provided us a
photo and are included, and
more are being added all the
time. Members are invited to
send their photo from some point in time near to the
war in which they were wounded, and preferably
when in uniform. Digital photos are welcome by
e-mail to: adjutant@purpleheartaustin.org, Printed
photos may be mailed to me, Adjutant Milt Carr, at
the return address of this newsletter. Those will be
promptly scanned and mailed back to the sender.
WWII veterans photos will also be submitted and
posted to the patriot’s entry in the ―WWII Registry‖
of the National WWII Memorial located in
Washington, D.C., if that has not already been done.
Changes of address come in all the time and Chapter
1919 Patriots move as frequently as the rest of the
population. One of our members has recently
moved to Indiana and asked for assistance in finding
a chapter there to affiliate with, and we were happy
to do so. We enthusiastically welcome distant
members, Patriots anywhere can always have a
home in Chapter 1919, that’s one of the reasons we
put out this large newsletter. But, if you have
moved and want to be an active member in the
Order you have to do that locally and we can assist
you, or you can find a new chapter on the internet.
—Milt Carr, Adjutant, (512) 343-7940