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Announcements

Next Meeting: Saturday, June 27, 2026

Menu: Buffet Breakfast $11

scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, biscuits and gravy, hash browns and toast

American Legion Post #178

 1655 Simms Street, Lakewood, CO 80215

Buffet Breakfast/Social Hour 0900

Meeting 0930

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May 31, 2026 Update

Morning All,

We had a pretty good turn out for yesterdays meeting. Total of 33 members/guests with 27 members. The pot luck breakfast was really good. Thanks to every one who brought food. Also Robert Williscroft's talk on Operation Ivy Bells was just awesome.

For those of you who were unable to attend I have the following information:

1. We held elections for Vice Commander, Secretary, and Treasurer. The results were Dale Bowman as Vice Commander; Grant Day as Treasurer; and Jennifer Lavigne as our Secretary. Also Jeff Mosal is our new USSVCF Ambassador. We are looking for some one to take over video manager. Dan had to step down because of his new demanding job. Dan said he has an extra camera and tripod we can use. We have a laptop that can be used we just need the correct software. So if you are interested in being our video manager please let me know.
2. Our annual picnic will be July 11 at Dale and Tami's home. We missed having it in May, due to the post being booked.
3. The 250th/150th anniversary event at Ft Logan has been cancelled due to lack of funding.
4. Colorado Remembers event on May 23rd went really well. The coordinator of the event liked our float and said we could come to any of their events. In fact they invited us to their Memorial Parade on May 25th. But because of the short notice we declined. 
5. The Colorado Freedom Memorial Park foundation is working to construct a large Colorado military museum and are looking for people to donate military items. The lady I talked with said that they were lacking in Navy stuff and had no submarine items. We are working towards donating our five foot model of the USS Grayling, which is the Sate of Colorado's sponsor boat. If you have anything you would like to donate contact them at coloradofreedommemorial.com. 
6. We are going to have to do some repairs to our tent. The front of the tent is pretty torn up due to winds and pulling the trailer in and out. We have repaired the back wall and the roof now it is the front. We are going to put in a 12 foot door for the trailer to enter and a personnel door with a solid wall similar to the back wall.. 
7. If you want your military career stored in the Library of Congress please contact Jessica Hult at pr@ussvcf.org. 
8. We are all signed up for the Estes Park Rooftop Rodeo Parade on July 6th (Monday). The parade starts at 1000 and we will stage around 0845 More details to follow. We have almost 14 people planning on coming to the event. We have 8 people coming the night before. 
9. We have a K4Ks event at Children's Hospital on June 11 th. We have to be there at 1230 and you HAVE to let Jennifer know you are coming because she has to let security know who will be there. We currently have 10 people signed up, but could always use more. This is our largest K4KS event. It is very rewarding to do this so please consider coming out.
10. Next Bingo is June 17th. Please consider coming out it is a lot of fun. Time 1000 at Colorado Sate Veterans Home, 1919 N Quentin St, Aurora.
11. THIS IS A BIG ONE! On June 19th (Friday) Denver parks and Recreation is digging the hole and filling in the gravel and sand for our engraved brick memorial. We need at lest four members to come and help prepare for laying the bricks. So we need some flat shoves and garden rakes to smooth out the sand/gravel. The next day on the 20th (Saturday) we will be laying the bricks. We also need to have a couple people at Grant's house to load the bricks into his truck and need as many as possible to help lay the bricks. We have around 150 to 160 bricks to lay. PLEASE COME OUT AND HELP.
12. Finally, It has been brought to my attention from Myra that there is a great way to do a fund raiser. There is a website called HundredX that supports non-profit organizations by giving us $1.80 every time you do a survey. So basically it has hundreds of surveys for almost anything, cars, restaurants, sport wear, clothes, stores, etc. and you can do as many surveys as you want per day for a 30 day period. Myra's DAR group which is only about 15-20 people raised $3100 in just 30 days. So I am going to look into the website and sign us up. More details to follow. Also King Soopers also has a program to help non profit organizations. If you sign up every time you buy groceries using your King Soopers card a small portion to the sales goes to us. I am also going to look into this and sign us up if I can. 

That is about it. It was good to be back and my shoulder is almost healed.

Thanks

Paul

USSVI and RMB award annual scholarships!



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National and Base Scholarship Submissions:   2025 - 2026

Asbestos Alert!

Written by T. Michael Bircumshaw and is in the last publication of the American Submariner on pg. 29.  It is important enough to be read to the members as they may have missed it.  “If you served any time between years 1900 and 2000 and did any time at sea or at certain Military installations, then you have been exposed to Asbestos.  Please get at least a high definition, no contrast needed, cat scan of your lungs.  Do it with a civilian pulmonologist, not the VA, and ask them to specifically look for pleural plaques and interstitial scarring in your lungs.  Once you have finally done that, call me at 951-775-4549.  Call me to tell me the results and we are hoping that your lungs are clean.  But, if like me, you have pleural plaques or/and asbestosis, then I can offer you some guidance on what to do about it.  It cannot be cured, but it can be compensated for, call me.  Don’t make me repeat myself, because I will.  Please do this for you and your family.”



  For more information about " Mesothelioma Plural Plaques " Click on the Red Link

Here are the links of how to make a claim to VA on PACT Act issues.

The first one is off the VA website and it is the actual form to make a claim. It does require you to be registered with the VA health System. The second one is a link to a VFW website to ask for help on applying for a claim. They do step by step instructions. The phone number is the VA hot line to ask VA help in filing a claim. The last is a YouTube on all this information. He is an ex-marine with info on all the agent orange and toxic exposure acts. Good info.

https://www.va.gov/disability/file-disability-claim-form-21-526ez/introduction

https://www.vfw.org/assistance/va-claims-separation-benefits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNkMWTmOc8

1-800-MY-VA-411 (1-800-698-2411).