Page 4 A R I Z O N A V E T E R A N S M A G A Z I N E LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SEND COMMENTS TO: Editor@AZVetMag.com MORE PICTURES & ARTICLES AT: www.AZVetMag.com SERVICE TO COUNTRY IS A FAMILY TRADITION by Mark Field, Publisher & Editor Welcome to the fall issue of the ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine. it is with great honor that i present our fall issue. Did you notice our new format We are now trimmed, stapled and on higher grade paper with more pages, more color and more copies. We are groWing. We are also expanding our distribution to more areas all over Arizona. Be a part of the revolution. i am proud of many features of this magazine, including sections on health, education, veteran entrepreneurs and veteran art. There are also newsletters from MoAA, SeaBees, US Vets, national guard, MAnA House, Joe Foss institute and Veterans Heritage Project. We welcome many more veterans organization newsletters in future issues. Let your veterans organization’s newsletter be read by 250,000 people all over Arizona. Look for us to double that number next year. The ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine is distributed to over 1000 locations all over Arizona. You can find them the VA Medical Centers and clinics, American Legion posts, VFW posts, other veterans organizations, city, state & federal government offices, police and fire stations, Luke AFB, national guard and reserve centers, employment offices, military recruiters, defense contractors, senior communities & senior centers, libraries & museums and hundreds of veteran-supportive businesses. The Arizona Veterans Magazine is distributed to many locations that provide a high number of readers such as: car dealers, hospitals, medical offices, golf courses and barbers. Look for the ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine distributed at dozens of major events such as: the Phoenix Veterans Day Parade, east Valley Veterans Parade, Marine Corps Ball, navy Ball, Pat Tillman run, national guard Muster, Pearl Harbor ceremony and many other veteran events. We are proud that we have such a high pass along rate with this magazine. Copies at many locations are read over and over again by veterans. Please pass this copy to another veteran after you finish reading it. our goal is to reach every veteran. one veteran told me that 20 of his family members enjoyed reading the ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine. You can always find a copy online at www.azvetmag.com and please follow us online and like us at www.facebook.com/ArizonaVeteransMagazine. This picture is of my grandfather, isadore Bunim, in Belgium during World War ii. He was an avid photographer and took many pictures of his fellow servicemen in europe. i feel a closeness to my grandfather from my publishing of the Arizona Veterans Magazine. Thank you for that experience and it inspires me to give back to veterans and Arizona. “For it is in giving that we receive.” ― Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181 - 1226 This issue of the ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine is dedicated to the veterans that served our country in memory and tribute to a family member who previously served our country. Your service carries your entire family forward. TABLE OF CONTENTS AZ NATIONAL GUARD MUSTER - 3 PUBLISHER’S LETTER - 4 AZ VETERAN HALL OF FAME - 6, 8 AZ NATIONAL GUARD - 10 <strong>VETERANS</strong> EVENTS - 13 IGNACIO SERVIN AT PELELIU - 15 GRUNTS BOOK REVIEW - 15 VETERAN EDUCATION - 17 WORLD WAR II VET GROUP - 18 HEALTH PAGES - 24, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35 DR. SISLEY & CANNABIS - 24, 26 RESTORE BRONZE - 21 ANIMAL PICTURES PAGE - 23 VETERAN ENTREPRENEUR - 39 MAX TAYLOR FEATURE - 40 <strong>VETERANS</strong> FIRST - 42 ART SLOANE’S <strong>VETERANS</strong> VOICE - 42 SEABEES NEWSLETTER - 44 FINANCIAL EDUCATION - 44 RESTAURANT REVIEWS - 46 BUCKEY O’NEILL - 47 PRESIDENTS MILITARY SERVICE - 48 ADMIRAL SYMONDS FEATURE - 48 <strong>VETERANS</strong> FIRST - 48 ANIMAL PICTURE PAGE - 50 SALLIE CARROLL TRIBUTE - 51 VETAD FEATURE - 51 DAN BURKE BIO - 51 LETTER FROM SEAN STEPHENS - 51 VETERAN ART - 52, 54, 55, 58, 59 SONNY BORRELLI HELPS <strong>VETERANS</strong> - 53 HOPI CODE TALKER CELEBRATION - 55 PROTECT SENIORS FROM FRAUD - 56 RUBEN GALLEGO AMERICAN DREAM - 56 THE ART OF JIM COVARRUBIAS - 57 RUBEN GALLEGO - 62 FINANCIAL FRAUD - 62 JOE FOSS NEWSLETTER - 63 COREY HARRIS & DAVID LUCIER - 64 THE STEVE COOPER STORY - 64 <strong>VETERANS</strong> HERITAGE PROJECT - 65 DAVE LUCIER ARTICLE - 65 SCAMMERS TARGET <strong>VETERANS</strong> - 65 RESTAURANT REVIEW - 66 USVETS NEWSLETTER - 69 SEABEES NEWSLETTER - 70 USVETS <strong>VETERANS</strong> HERITAGE PROJECT - 72 LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH - 73 SAN TAN BASEBALL - 73 ADVERTISERS PAGES SANDERSON FORD - 2 DOUG DUCEY - 5 DUCEY - 5 FRED DUVAL - 7 TERRY GODDARD - 9 FELECIA ROTELLINI - 11 KYRSTEN SINEMA - 12 GUIDANCE AVIATION - 14 AMERICAN MILITARY UNIV. - 16 MERITAGE HOMES - 19 COURTESY CHEVROLET - 20 JACK’S WAREHOUSE - 22 ARIZONA STATE PARKS - 25 CAMELBACK TOYOTA - 27 ARIZONA MOUNTAIN ESTATES - 28 DRIGGS TITLE - 28 CHIROPRACTIC CARE - 29 VA MEDICAL CENTER - 30 ARIZONA RELAY SERVICE - 30 FIRST LIGHT HOME CARE - 31 HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY - 32 THE ABILITY CENTER - 34 SANDRA KENNEDY - 36 DIAMOND JIM’S - 36 ROAD WARRIORS - 37 GOETTL AIR CONDITIONING - 38 VET TIX - 40 SALT RIVER PROJECT (SRP) - 40 SOUTHWEST TRUCK DRIVING - 41 MONTEREY AIR CONDITIONING - 41 LEO’S DASH & SEAT COVERS - 41 VETRAPLEX - 42, 53, 60 VA HOME LOANS - 44 MESA SWAP MART - 46 PATRIOT RADIO - 49 MORTGAGES - TIM KING - 50 PHOENIX TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL - 50 CLOUDBREAK COMMUNITIES - 54 GOT MEMORIES - 54 TONY GUAJARDO, ATTORNEY - 55 WOUNDED WARRIOR SOFTBALL - 59 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS - 59 MORTGAGES - TIM KING - 50 WOUNDED WARRIOR SOFTBALL - 52 <strong>VETERANS</strong> AUTOMOTIVE - 60 REAL ESTATE - CINDA ROSE - 60 ANYTIME AUTO GLASS - 66 BARTLETT LAKE MARINA - 65 ROSEWOOD HOMES - 75 USAA - 76 ARIZONA <strong>VETERANS</strong> MAGAZINE READERS: 250,000+ — Printed magazine 110,000+ — Website visitors 25,000+ — Facebook followers 100,000+ — emailed magazine Visit us at www.AzVetMag.com Please LiKe us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/arizonaveteransmagazine Advertising Information contact: MarkField@AZVetMag.com Best Media Coverage of Veterans in Arizona 689 Vote at www.AZVetMag.com Thank you for coming out to our Seabee meeting in March 2014 and taking a group photo and featuring it your ArizonA VeTerAnS MAgAzine. our members are still talking about it 4 months later. The new commander richard Allart wanted 3 copies so that he could attract a Seabee at his Bridge Club to become a new member. The new Vice Commander Stanley Pekarski sent a copy back to new York to a VFW Post he once commanded. We gained 5 new members after your ArizonA VeTerAn MAgAzine came out for circulation in the spring. i am saving copies for the winter Seabee members who will receive one upon their return in September. not only was the photo a big hit, the way you arranged it above the Air Force photo added a special twist to “Seabees; These guys Build Things” That was a large meeting attendance day for the navy Seabee Veterans of America in the West Valley. — John O’Brien Sec/Treas Island X-5 West Valley AZ UNITED STATES POPULATION 2014 — 313,914,040 ARIZONA POPULATION 2014 — 6,553,255 Estimated Arizona Population in 2030 — 12.7 million WORLD POPULATION Year 1 — 200 million 1804 — 1 billion 1927 — 2 billion 1960 — 3 billion 1975 — 4 billion 1999 — 6 billion 2014 — 7.1 billion Estimated World Population in 2300 — 36.4 billion Source: United Nations USA population 316,128,839 Arizona population 6,626,624 Arizona Veteran population 660,000+ STATES WITH MOST <strong>VETERANS</strong> California - 1,942,775 Texas - 1,689,759 Florida - 1,588,029 Pennsylvania - 1,035,566 New York - 983,844 Ohio - 943,046 Virginia - 827,810 Illinois - 803,964 Georgia - 778,282 North Carolina - 776,683 Michigan - 719,393 Arizona - 660,000+ Washington - 617,225 Tennessee - 533,833 Missouri - 521,526 Source: US Census Bureau We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it. — nisargadatta Maharaj “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships — the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” — President Franklin D. roosevelt Publisher & Editor Mark Field, US Navy Veteran MarkField@AZVetMag.com Associate Editor & Graphic Design Dana Sill, US Air Force Veteran DanaSiIl@AZVetMag.com Art Editor Jim Covarrubias, US Army Veteran jl.covarrubias@gmail.com Health Advisor — Eddie Katz Poet Laureate — Sarge Lintecum Website Coordinator Todd Bogert, US Navy Veteran TBogert@macwinconsulting.com Advertising Consultants VETAD Advertising Agency Lee Hanna, US Army Veteran Len Combs, US Marine Corps Veteran Dennis Sajdak, US Army Veteran Marilyn Wilbur, US Air Force Veteran Geronimo Campanile, US Army Veteran Editorial Advisory Board Joey Strickland, Rick Romley Jim Covarrubias, Terry Araman Art Sloane, David Lucier Corey Harris, Joan Sisco Brad Bridwell, Andy Dzurinko CONTRIBUTORS David Lucier, Terry Araman Art Sloane, Betty Lou Field Brad Bridwell, Tom Fenner John Scott, Caitlan Cruz Jim Covarrubias, Eddie Katz Joan Sisco, Dr. Sue Sisley Jerry Iannacci, Dr. Carol Henricks General McGuire, Joe Brett Corey Harris, Miranda Bollinger Judy Crawford, Steve Weintraub Rachel Gutierrez, Phil Riske Ricardo Pereyda, Wes Parrell, Dr. Timothy Marshall, Dr. Tina Buck, Joe Pinella, Mary Vardi, Crystal Reidy, Ashleigh Bryant, Jerry Wojtas, Sean Stephens Rep. 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We Stand with Doug Ducey for Governor Dear Fellow Veterans, First and foremost, thank you for your service to our country. Your commitment and sacrifice to our country will always be remembered. While we all come from different cities, backgrounds, and professions, together we make up the most extensive family network in the country. The bond formed through our service is never broken — the men and women we stand next to become our life-long brothers and sisters. We come from different generations of conflict, but we we face similar issues; access to quality healthcare, meaningful employment, and sustainable benefits. We are proud to endorse Doug Ducey for Governor because he understands the issues facing our military community. Doug has traveled our state to speak with veterans, military families, and friends of veterans. The issues facing our community are very real and we need true leadership if we are going to make meaningful reforms. Under Doug’s leadership, Arizona will always welcome our veterans - in both word and deed. Just as we served our country and protected our American freedom, Doug will stand up to support us. We are Arizona’s greatest asset. We are trained leaders, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, parents, friends, and most importantly, Arizonans. With Doug Ducey as Governor we can create the strongest network of veteran support services in the nation. As we welcome home the new generation of warriors, we need a Governor we can trust to ensure we have great jobs, access to healthcare services, and a strong network of services. Affordable schools are critical, not only for existing veterans, but access to educational opportunities are especially important for those who are returning home. Doug Ducey has proven his commitment to entrepreneurial enterprise and demonstrated his ability to create meaningful career opportunities. Read more about Doug’s plan and commitment on his website, www.dougducey.com, and see what others are saying about his ability to lead Arizona. When you vote, join us in supporting Doug Ducey for Governor. Doug has proven his mettle. We need a Governor we can trust to help veterans, active service members, and our families. Doug Ducey is the one we trust for Arizona. Sincerely, RICK ROMLEY, US Marine Corps, Vietnam Veteran RJ MITCHELL, Jr., US Marine Corps, Iraq Veteran PAID FOR BY DUCEY 2014
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