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From the Editor…..
 Happy
NewYear!
Let’s all try to keep a positive attitude and optimistic
approach to life in 2002 !
The good news in Bay City is that our Navy Ship Committee has
received a $25,000 grant from Dow. We are getting closer to
our goal of 2.5 million dollars to bring the USS Charles F.
Adams destroyer to the Saginaw River as an educational museum.
Lona King sent me two poems composed by a Grayling woman after
the September 11 devastation. We can’t print them in entirety,
but here is the last stanza of one:
We’ll leave destruction where it lies,
And from the ashes we will rise.
Our strength and faith are with us still
For GOOD survives -
And always will……
That’s what I mean by a positive approach!
Ladies, we need to tell our stories. An estimated 1500 WWII
veterans die each day. It’s important for younger generations
to get to know what we did. Barbara Turner, Florida State
Director, said when interviewed by WEAR TV3: “It takes a lot
for them to tell their stories, but they need to, especially
in light of what’s going on in the country today, to let the
country know that women were there from the very beginning and
are still there.”
I have offered to put your stories in book form, but I need to
start before I become
a statistic. Mail them to me with a photo in uniform, if
possible.
- Dolores |
WN Florida State and
Region XII Conference
You are cordially invited to attend the Florida
State/Regional XII Conference. Please mark your calendars as
follows:
May 10-12, 2002
Admiral’s Inn
Cypress Gardens, Florida
Contact:
Mary Close
58 Aberdeen Circlee
Leesburg, FL 34788
352-742-8326
Email: mcclose@aol.com
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Coming
Events
5 January 2002
Board Meeting
Delhi Café, Holt, MI
2 February 2002
Unit 32 Luncheon Meeting
Tony M’s, Lansing, MI
April 2002
Unit 32 Luncheon Meeting
Grand Rapids, MI (?)
June 2002
Unit 32 Luncheon Meeting
Bay City, MI
27-31 August 2002
WAVES National Convention
Portland, Oregon
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