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Events
There is going to be an 8th District Meeting February 13th at 1pm at the Henderson Post 157, Henderson, TN It will be held at the henderson Senior Citizen Center located at 247 E. Main St., Henderson, TN. The meal will be fried chicken or roast beef with all the fixings for $7.00. Please contact Tommy Price at 731-989-3384 to let him know if you plan to attend so they can get an estimate of how many will be attending. The guest speaker will be Tonia L. Hardaway of the Nashville VA Hospital. She is the program manager of the OIF/OEF for the VA Hospital. This will be a good time to have your questions asked on VA medical Benefits & VA Hospitalization.
PRESS RELEASE
In the year 2000 Congress passed an act that any qualified veteran that passed away their family may request a Military Funeral. These Ceremomies may consist of just a Flag Folding Ceremony and Taps, or one to also include a Firing Sguad.
Up to this point these ceremonies ave been performed by our local National Guard. They getting over-whelmed because many of our WWII veterans are passing away. It's getting difficult to get to all these funerals because they cover almost all of West Tennessee. For this reason they have requested the local American Legion Posts to form a Color/Honor Guard Team to fill in when they get over-booked. We have formed an American Legion Honor Guard Team and have already had one training session with the National guard. The formation of our Honor Guard is coming along very well.
We need 7 more volunteers to join the Honor Guard to ensure that we have enough personnel to cover a military funeral. Our weapons are being shipped to us soon and when they arrive we will have another training session. This is very important because most of the National Guard Honor Guard Members are being deployed to Iraq in December of this year. We need to get prepared to fill the void because of their absence. Contact either Alex Smith 731-439-2880 or Norm Lumpkin if you would like to be a part of either the Color guard or Honor Guard.