3 September, 2013
Dear Vets and Friends:
Camaraderie, community, and chow will be at the Senior Center mess hall on Friday, 6 September 2013, at or before 0900 hours. Your Vets Breakfast will feature chipped beef as good as you will get. Bring friends who are veterans. Anyone with a transportation hardship should call Sally Almy before 4 September 2013.
The Photo Gallery is waiting for your visit, and your recruiting of friends to fall-in with a photographic memory of their service time. Anyone who has ever lived in Hopkinton, and who has ever worn a military uniform deserves to be enlisted in the Gallery.
Veterans Remember is in need of some military veteran star power to share the lens with Dick Gooding. The summer season found it difficult to assemble the many persons who are needed to film a show.
Here's the free breakfast opportunity. If nothing else, it will identify who the real Red Sox fans are. To win, name the Red Sox player who was in WW II, the ETO, US Army infantry, landed at Omaha Beach, spearheaded the St. Lo break-through, earned a Bronze Star, a battlefield commission, a Silver Star for bravery in the Battle of the Bulge, and promoted to 1st Lt. After the war he told of throwing grenades at German tanks. He missed a couple. A kid in his platoon threw two and scored direct hits. This Red Sox said, "If only I had that kid's control, what a pitcher I would be."
Mark your calendar! Our American Legion Post 202 is bringing a different breed of soldier to the Senior Center on 17 October 2013, at 1000 hours. Mike Lemish and his side-kick Lucy the German Shepherd will tell us about war dogs. In Viet Nam there were 4 thousand dogs similar to Lucy all doing dangerous jobs. One famous dog was Nemo who warned of nearby Viet Cong soldiers, and killed two of them while getting shot in the eye. K9 soldiers are used as sentries, and as scouts to identify enemy presence, mines, booby traps, and tunnels. Dogs' sense of smell is keen which helps to find enemy whose scent is distinctly different from their diet of rice rather than wheat such as Americans eat. The US military has 2700 dogs today; several hundred are in Afghanistan and Iraq locating roadside bombs. Seal Team Six had a K9 companion to help in taking out bin Ladin.
See you Friday. Out.
