VOL 9-5 — JANUARY PATRIOT BULLETIN2009

YOUR NEXT PURPLE HEART EVENT DATES 21 JAN — 12 NOON, STAFF MEETING, MUSEUM AT CAMP MABRY, MOPAC & 35th ST 24 JAN — CHAPTER MEETING, “G.I. BREAKFAST,” CAMP MABRY BLDG #8, CAFETERIA

PATRIOT BULLETIN

THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE U.S.A. TEXAS CAPITAL CHAPTER 1919

2 FEB — 6:30 AM, “BREAKFAST AT JIM’S,” HWY 183 AT BURNET RD

JANUARY ...Start the year off right—come to our first event of 2009…

“G. I. BREAKFAST” IN THE CAFETERIA OF BLDG #8, CAMP MABRY

9AM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th PATRIOTS, YOU CAN TAKE THE WIFE OUT FOR BREAKFAST ON SATURDAY MORNING, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ATTENDING YOUR PURPLE HEART CHAPTER MEETING — AND, IT’S BREAKFAST LIKE YOU REMEMBER IT, SOS ON A SHINGLE, WITH SCRAMBLED EGGS AND BACON, BISCUITS AND TOAST AND PLENTY OF G.I. COFFEE, ALL FOR ONLY $5 WHEN YOU GO THRU THE SERVING LINE. OUR GUEST SPEAKER WILL BE SHERI SOLTES, WHO TRAINS “SERVICE DOGS” FOR DISABLED VETERANS AND OTHERS WITH DISABILITIES. (EDITOR’S NOTE: OUR OWN PATRIOT, MARY DAGUE, HAS A SERVICE DOG TO HELP HER AND SHE AND JARED LOVE IT.) COME WELCOME HER AND LEARN FROM MS. SOLTES PRESENTATION. ...AND COMING UP NEXT MONTH, ON FEB 20th, IS OUR ANNUAL GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY DINNER PARTY. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY. FILL OUT THE RESERVATION FORM ON PAGE 7, AND CLIP AND MAIL IT IN WITH YOUR CHECK TO COMMANDER RAYMOND DIAZ

INSIDE: ...This Month’s Feature Story, Starts On Page 8..

JOHN C. BURKHARDT JOHN GREW UP IN SOUTH AUSTIN AND HAS SOME INTERESTING CONNECTIONS WITH OUR CHAPTER MEMBERS DATING BACK TO HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS. HE HAD A BAD FIRST DAY IN ACTION IN VIETNAM AND POST-WAR HAD SOME HIGH VISIBILITY EXPERIENCES WORKING IN MAIL SECURITY FOR THE POST OFFICE.

LEADER BOARD

2-3

NEW MEMBERS

4

ADJUTANTS CALL

5

NEWS / FEATURE / PHOTOS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS NEWS

4 - 12 10

BIRTHDAYS / BOOSTERS

12 - 13

TRIBUTES / TAPS

14 - 15

CHAPTER CALENDAR

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Chapter Notes ……..PATRIOTS, THE CHAPTER’S END OF THE YEAR EVENTS WERE GREAT, AND ALSO PURPLE SANTA WAS ABLE TO DO MANY GOOD DEEDS LAST MONTH, READ ABOUT ALL THAT IN THIS ISSUE, AND…...

COMMANDER’S MESSAGE

s the New Year begins, I, like everyone else, am A making new year’s resolutions about losing weight, stopping a bad habit, getting in better shape,

and eating more healthy. Well, whatever is on your list that you make up your mind to do, I hope one thing is to be more active in our chapter and another is to take a more energetic part in helping our needy and elderly veterans. We all need to extend a helping hand to the needy and thank the elderly for having served to make this a better place for our children and for the generations to come.

The month of December was a busy one for me and for the chapter. It started with our delivery of fruit baskets to our homebound patriots and widows at the beginning of the holidays. I would like to thank Fred and Elaine Rey, Danny McDaniel, Paul Chapa, Les Allen, Rufus Dye, and Elizabeth Larson for preparing the baskets and helping deliver them to the various homes all across town. This year we distributed 35 baskets. For the Christmas parties this time, I decided to try something different and combine the adults and childrens parties, which in previous years has been on two different weekends. We had trays of meats, veggies, and cheese and fruit. The children had cookies and ice cream for their party and Purple Santa made an appearance and handed out goodie bags to all present. I trust the patriots, family members and children that attended enjoyed themselves, I know for sure that Santa did. Purple Santa was busy all month, making appearances at the Christmas parties, delivering toys to Austin’s “Safe Place” for the children there, and handing out goodie bags to 215 children at Becker Elementary School with the help of Becker PTA (that provided the gift items for the children). Purple Santa also helped several families during the

holidays. Two veteran’s families, one of whom was an Iraq vet, received assistance with their rent. Another Iraq vet is unemployed and his wife had a baby on Christmas Day. Purple Santa provided an infant car seat and a stroller, along with a supply of newborn baby items. We also had a wonderful thing happen that was totally unexpected when an outside donor contacted the chapter and Purple Santa coordinated the delivery of that very generous individual’s gift to one of our recovering combat wounded that needed the extra help during the holidays. Purple Santa also referred one Vietnam veteran, who is raising an 11 year-old grandson, to another local organization that was looking for a veteran family to help during the Christmas season. All and all, it was one busy month. Santa thanks Patriot John Burkhardt for taking pictures at Becker Elementary, and Patriot Rufus Dye for taking pictures at the Christmas Party. (Editors Note: He’s not going to say so, but Purple Santa is Commander Raymond Diaz). For our January meeting, we will once again be having a “G.I. Breakfast” in the Camp Mabry cafeteria in building #8, the new headquarters building. Make plans now to be there and enjoy the SOS, scrambled eggs, bacon, etc., coffee or orange juice for just $5. So, get there by 9:00 AM and the serving line will open at 9:20. This month our special guest speaker will be Ms. Sheri Soltes who trains dogs for veterans with hearing problems. I will also have the latest Purple Heart Polo shirts and hats for anyone wishing to get one or two or get one for someone special as a belated holiday gift. We will also have door prizes right after the meeting. For upcoming events, mark your calendar now for Friday, February 20th. We will be celebrating George Washington’s Birthday with our annual chapter dinner party at the Austin Club. The cost for the event this year will be $30 per person. By tradition, the dinner party has also become Chapter 1919’s “annual awards” night. Come, take in the pageantry and witness the announcements of “Patriot of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, and Auxiliary of the Year” awards. Plan now to attend, it’s our premier social event of the year. In closing, I wish you and yours a joyful and prosperous Happy New Year.

THE PATRIOT BULLETIN IS PUBLISHED, NORMALLY MONTHLY, BY THE TEXAS CAPITAL CHAPTER 1919, The MILITARY ORDER of the PURPLE HEART of the U.S.A., Inc., 5701 PAINTED VALLEY DRIVE, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78759, FOR ITS MEMBERS. TO SUBMIT MATERIAL, OR COMMENTS, OR TO REPORT CHANGES OF ADDRESS, NOTIFY EDITOR, MILT CARR, (512) 343-7940. THE CUTOFF DATE TO SUBMIT MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION IS EXACTLY 3-WEEKS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE NEXT CHAPTER MEETING. YOU CAN VIEW OUR NEWSLETTER IN COLOR, GO TO WEBSITE www.purpleheartaustin.org , FIND NEWSLETTER IN THE MENU.

Yours In Patriotism, RAYMOND DIAZ Commander, Chapter 1919

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COMMAND AND PRINCIPAL STAFF

CHAPTER / UNIT

1919

…..AND, WE HAVE A FULL

CALENDAR COMING UP IN 2009. WE ARE ONLY A MONTH AWAY FROM OUR BIGGEST SOCIAL EVENT OF THE YEAR, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY DINNER PARTY. WE URGE EVERYONE TO SIGN UP EARLY. BUT, FIRST THINGS FIRST — DON’T MISS THE NEXT MEETING AT CAMP MABRY ON JANUARY 24th.

OFFICERS, MOPH CHAPT 1919 NOTE: AREA CODES NOT LISTED ARE ( 512 )

COMMANDER RAYMOND DIAZ

444-6342

SENIOR VICE COMMANDER JOHN BURKHARDT

497-5857

JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER

(aka Commander Ray Diaz) spoke with each child and delighted them appy New Year ! I hope your with a stocking stuffer filled with holidays were delightful, and that treats. Much gratitude goes to the you are looking forward to the year ladies who provided the cookies that They are ahead. The start of the New Year is a the kids savored. Elizabeth Larson, Mary Diaz, good time for me to thank all of you ladies that are in the auxiliary for your Katherine Contreras, Linda membership and friendship. I am Pennington, Lucille Bennett, honored to be your President; but I am Marisol Contreras, and Elaine Rey. Particular thanks to those even more proud to be your friend. ladies who helped set up, clean up, and stay with me to help serve the December was a month bursting with children: Julie Brown, Katherine activities for everyone. One of those Contreras, Mary Diaz, and Elizabeth Larson. I activities was our could not have done it GEORGE WASHINGTON’ S annual Christmas without you. And, a BIRTHDAY DINNER PARTY Party on December special thanks to all the 14th at the Odd ON FEBRUARY 20th ladies in attendance, for Fellows Lodge. We IS IN “THE AUSTIN CLUB” spreading their beauty broke tradition this year by having both LADIES, THE CLUB IS IN A throughout the Odd the chapter’s adults HISTORIC AUSTIN BLDG., Fellows Lodge. party, and t h e ORIGINALLY THE MILLETT children’s Christmas OPERA HOUSE, BUILT IN party on the same 1878. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, I also hope to see you at G e o r g e day. The adults WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, o u r enjoyed an assortment LILY LANGTRY, AND EDWIN Washington’s Birthday of appetizers to snack BOOTH APPEARED HERE Dinner Party on Friday, on, such as fruit and TO PACKED HOUSES. AN February 20th at the Your vegetable trays, dips, AWESOME PART OF LOCAL Austin Club. ham, turkey, cheese HISTORY — YOU WANT TO reservation form is on and crackers; as well EXPERIENCE THIS PLACE, page 7 of this issue. as many dishes and SO COME TO THE PARTY ! drinks to choose The Unit’s first meeting from. Several people of the New Year will be on January approached me to say they enjoyed the 24th in the Camp Mabry Cafeteria in menu, and thought it was very Building #8/ I look forward to successful. seeing you there. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

H

Speaking of successful, the Purple Santa Children’s Christmas Party was an especially big hit. The Children were treated to caroling led by Barbara Carr on piano, as well as the entertainment by the Pecan Springs Elementary school choir. Purple Santa

Best wishes for the coming year,

JOE HARTNESS

964-1146

ADJUTANT MILT CARR

343-7940

FINANCE OFFICER WALLACE PETE SNELSON 472-4975

SERVICE OFFICER JIMMIE SALAZAR

(830) 868-9237

PUBLIC RELATIONS TONY GEISHAUSER

527-8495

JUDGE ADVOCATE VACANT

CHAPLAIN RUFUS DYE

926-5691

AMERICANISM OFFICER ERNIE BANASAU

894-0644

WELFARE OFFICER FRED REY

339-8034

SERGEANT AT ARMS IVAN CASTELLON

(254) 258-9155

OFFICERS, LAMOPH UNIT 1919 PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, CHAPLAIN BETTY CEPEDA 278-0292 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT MARISOL CONTRERAS

791-7532

JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT VALERIE DYE

272-4582

TREASURER-PATRIOTIC INSTR. JULIE BRIDGEWATER (972) 754-4393

TRUSTEES, 1-2-3 Yr PATSY RADEMACHER ROSALIE CASTILLO ELIZABETH LARSON

327-0326 272-4582 418-1342

PARLIAMENTARIAN

Betty,

LUCILLE BENNETT

President, Unit 1919

ELAINE REY

345-2534

HISTORIAN 339-8034

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NEW MEMBERS Three new members have been added to the rolls of Chapter 1919 since publication of the last issue of PATRIOT BULLETIN. Welcome and congratulations to: TIMOTHY J. GAESTEL is an Army Iraq veteran. He was wounded in Al Iskandariyah on September 21, 2003 while serving in Battery C, 1st Bn, 319th Field Artillery (Airborne), 82nd Airborne Division. HERBERT N. HASKELL is a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. He was a member of Company D, 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division when wounded in 1967. JONATHAN D. MEDINA-HERRERA is an Army Iraq veteran. He was wounded July 15, 2006 at Ar Ramadi, Iraq when assigned to 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 4th BCT Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Three additional Applications / Transfers were in-process at National Headquarters at “press time.” They are: SAMUEL E. BAKER, Army Air Force, WWII SCOTT C. GARRETT, Army, Iraq KERRY G. MERRITT, Army, WWII

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PATRIOT BULLETIN ON THE INTERNET The numbers continue to rise, as more newsletter addressees sign on for the list to be notified by e-mail when the latest newsletter has been posted and is ready for viewing on the chapter’s website. If you are one of those that thought about it, but didn’t do anything at the time, why not help us save printing costs and postage money by letting us stop your mailings, and notify you instead every month when the electronic version of this newsletter has been posted (normally about 10 days before the paper copies begin being received). If you are ready to do so now, please e-mail your notification to: [email protected] in order to make sure that we record your e-address correctly. To see it now with photos and graphics in color, log on at www.purpleheartaustin.org and then look thru the menu and click on the entry for “January 2009 Newsletter.”

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ADJUTANTS CALL and the Veterans Home. Lilo had set a personal goal for herself to reach the 20,000 hour level as a VA volunteer before the end of the year, and with six weeks to go it was still looking too close to call. Then with extraordinary effort she completed work on twenty-five more “lap robes” (it takes her 18 hours to knit each one) and passed CURRENT STATISTICS them out before Christmas—and that FIGURES IN MILLIONS, FROM THE put her over her goal of 20,000 NATIONAL ADJUTANT hours. Since few of us see the result CONT’D FROM LAST MONTH of her work, we wanted PATRIOT TOTAL VETERANS…………. …23.6 BULLETIN to let everyone know VETERANS AGE 18-64 AND about what this very special lady in IN THE LABOR FORCE..………..10.7 Unit 1919 is doing. It is not likely VETS OLDER THAN 65….…… . 9.3 that she will be slowing down anytime soon.

Happy New Year ! The chapter’s calendar for the entire year of 2009 is posted for the first time on the back cover of this newsletter. Use it now to fill in your personal calendar for the coming months to make sure you don’t commit later to something else on days when we have a Purple Heart event.

Last year ended on a high note, with the chapter being more active than ever in volunteer service and assisting needy veterans and veterans families, mainly through our Purple Heart Coffee Bar in continuous operation at the VA Outpatient Clinic and with the Purple Santa Program that is most active at the end of the year. Those of VETERANS WITH DISABILITY.….6.0 us in the local Austin area see those AVERAGE ANNUAL EARNINGS As a reminder about the Purple Heart things in action all the time at the VA FOR MALE VETERANS…....$42,100 Scholarship article in last month’s ($39,800 FOR MALE NON-VETS) Clinic and at our chapter events and issue, the application packet for the meetings. However, we also have AVERAGE ANNUAL EARNINGS FOR 2009/2010 school year is available another major volunteer activity going FEMALE VETERANS……….$32,200 from: wwwpurpleheart.org, or asking on all the time, but few of us see it in ($27,200 FOR FEMALE NON-VETS) for one to be mailed (703) 642-5360. action. This is a one-woman perfect Eligibles are (1) recipients of the storm named Lilo Saenz, wife of our Patriot Henry Purple Heart who are members of the Order, or (2) Saenz. She does VA Volunteer service in our name direct descendant, spouse or widow of MOPH in several different areas at the VA Hospital and the members (or of veterans killed in action or died of Texas State Veterans Home in Temple; but is most wounds who never had a chance to join MOPH) famous as the lady who knits “lap robes” and gives —Milt Carr, Adjutant, (512) 343-7940 them to disabled veteran in-patients at the hospital

...Dec 26th Was “Military Appreciation Nite” At The NBA-D League Game Between…

AUSTIN “TOROS” VS TULSA “66ers”

....Where Chapter 1919 and Patriot Alan Babin were Appreciated Most Of All...

BABIN FAMILY WATCHING THE ACTION, FROM L, PATRIOT ALAN BABIN, DAD ALAIN, MOTHER ROSIE, AND SIS CHRISTY

AT HALF-TIME, CMDER RAY DIAZ MC’s SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF ALAN AS LEE HAGAN, ROSIE & BURKHARDTS WATCH

AND THE CROWD HERE IS CHEERING FOR ALAN AT HALFTIME. TOROS DIDN’T NEED IT, THIS WAS THEIR SIXTH STRAIGHT WIN

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...Scenes From The ..

CHAPTER CHRISTMAS PARTY ...Sunday, December 14th, Odd Fellows Lodge # 23...

TOP PHOTO FOREGROUND IS FRED AND LAURIE ANNE HUDGEONS WITH (RIGHT BACKGROUND) DAUGHTER MEGAN. WITH THEM IS PATRIOT DANIEL KANNEGAARD FROM RATHDRUM, IDAHO WHO CAME THE GREATEST DISTANCE TO ATTEND OUR PARTY (ALSO LAURIE’S UNCLE AND A WINTER TEXAN)

FROM LEFT: ELIZABETH LARSON, BARBARA CARR, HAROLD & ELROSE WEEDEN, JULIE BROWN AND LUCILLE BENNETT ARMANDO YBARRA AND JAMES L. BROWN LES & JO ANNE ALLEN

THANKS ARE DUE FROM ALL OF US TO FOUR PEOPLE WHO DID MUCH OF THE WORK TO DO THIS PARTY FROM LEFT: PRESIDENT, BETTY CEPEDA; CHAPLAIN, RUFUS DYE; ELIZABETH LARSON; AND COMMANDER, RAYMOND DIAZ HOWARD AND JUDY MCKINNEY. HOWARD, OUR CHAPTER WEBMASTER, ALWAYS GETS THE “BEST DRESSED” PATRIOT AWARD THIS CHRISTMAS PARTY WAS ALSO A VIETNAM VETS REUNION FOR CO E, 4-47 INF, 9TH INFANTRY DIVISION. OUR SENIOR VICE, JOHN BURKHARDT, WAS VISITED BY (L) WILEY SPILLMAN FROM SANTA CLARA, CALIF., AND (C, TOM DEBORE FROM MCALLEN — THEIR FIRST MEETING SINCE 1968 !

...And From...

PURPLE SANTA’S CHILDREN’S PARTY UNIT MUSICIAN, BARBARA CARR PLAYS AND LEADS THE CHILDREN IN SINGING CAROLS. ELIZABETH LARSON ASSISTS

PURPLE SANTA BEING TOLD WHAT ROBERT WARD’S GRAND– DAUGHTER WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS

PECAN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY STUDENTS ENTERTAINED BOTH THE ADULT & KIDS PARTY ATTENDEES WITH A CHRISTMAS PLAY — AND THEY WERE GREAT ACTORS

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….It’s Not Too Early To Sign-Up For…

George Washington’s Birthday Dinner Party

...Because It’s Coming Next Month, So Reserve Now For Friday, Feb, 20th.…

CHAPTER 1919 CELEBRATES THE 277TH BIRTHDAY OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON FRIDAY, FEB 20th, 2009. AT 6:00 PM, THE “AUSTIN CLUB,” 110 E 9TH STREET

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED $30 PER PERSON — CASH BAR GUESTS ARE WELCOME COME FOR THE GREAT FOOD, TOASTS, ENTERTAINMENT, SPECIAL AWARDS, COLOR GUARDS, PATRIOTIC CEREMONY. ALSO, THERE IS

FREE GARAGE PARKING GARAGE IS ADJACENT TO (EAST OF) CLUB ENTRANCE. BRING YOUR TICKET INSIDE AND HAVE IT STAMPED AT THE DESK LIST NAMES OF ALL IN YOUR PARTY IN THE SPACE BELOW. PAY FOR THAT NUMBER X $30 EA. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: CHAPTER 1919, MOPH. THEN CLIP AND MAIL THIS RESERVATION FORM AND YOUR CHECK TO — RAYMOND DIAZ, 612 W ANNIE ST, AUSTIN, TX 78704.

TOTAL NUMBER ATTENDING X $30 ea = TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED =

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JOHN C. BURKHARDT Army, Vietnam Patriot, Chapter 1919

John C. Burkhardt was born in Austin, Texas in 1946. He was the youngest of four children in his family while growing up in South Austin and attending public schools. He went through Becker Elementary and Fulmore Junior High, and graduated from Travis High School in 1964. Also graduating in the Class of 1964 were neighborhood friends SP4 BURKHARDT FORT HOOD, 1968 James L. Brown and John Eli. Raymond Diaz and Bennie Matias, Jr. were two years younger, but they were also among his group of friends that lived within a few blocks of one another and all played sandlot baseball together in the vacant lot next door to the Burkhardt home. The first job John ever had was with a local electric equipment repair company where Patriot Gabriel Tamayo was his supervisor. In January 1966, he got a job at the Post Office, but, with the war going on in Vietnam, predictably, he was drafted the next year. Patriot Max Noe was his last postal supervisor before he was inducted in the Army on May 1, 1967. After Basic Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in Infantry at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, John received orders for Vietnam. He had this to say, “I arrived about midnight, September 23, 1967 at 9th Infantry Division Headquarters in Bear Cat, and from there was sent to Dong Tam. After several days in- processing, I was sent to Co E, 4th Bn, 47thInfantry, which was part of the Mobile Riverine Force, newly created to patrol the Mekong Delta waterways. I reported in aboard the USS Benewah – Barracks Ship, and was placed in 4th Platoon. The first person I met was the Platoon Sergeant, he welcomed me in and passed me off to another guy. He was an experienced old hand and my mentor had to show me around the ship quickly and make sure I had all the right equipment because we were to go out on a mission the next morning. He fitted me out with a radio, so I immediately became the RTO although I had not had that training, and he briefed me on the mission. We were awakened about 4AM, ate breakfast and loaded onto the Navy landing craft about 5AM. We landed on Toi Son Island at daybreak, about 6AM. The morning was relatively quiet, just blowing bunkers and wondering how long it was going to take before all hell broke loose. We broke for lunch about 11:30 and then, about noon we moved out with my squad on the point. My mentor from the day before was point man, not far in front of me. Within just a few short minutes we were ambushed. Bullets hit all around me and missed, but the point man was shot between the eyes. It was then that I realized how bad the situation really was. Artillery was called in and that took care of that initial action. That was when I was informed that the Platoon Sergeant (behind me) had been shot in the chest (he died enroute to the hospital). We continued on, took fire several more times and had two more men wounded before my squad was relieved from the point. There were more encounters that day, but to my knowledge all the dead and wounded had been from my squad. 9th INFANTRY DIVISION PATCH WITH USS BENEWAH

UNOFFICIAL POCKET PATCH OF THE 4TH BN, 47TH INFANTRY

I had reported in to my platoon less than 24 hours before. That was my first day in the field and the first two men I had met were gone after the first six hours. I probably saw more action on my first day than many see in a lifetime – and I was not injured on that day. Unfortunately, it just didn’t get any better.” On January 12, 1968, John was wounded during an operation on the Saigon River, but not seriously, just seven stitches near the left eye, and he was returned to duty the next day. Two weeks later, on January 30, 1968, the beginning of TET-68 at Dong Tam, he was wounded a second time. John was on a mission to set up an overnight ambush site when hit by a command detonated claymore-type mine that wounded five of the 13 men in his patrol. John was hit in the head, was lapsing in and out of consciousness, had a large wound in the

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abdomen, three wounds in the left leg, one in the left arm and one in his left hand. “Dustoff” arrived quickly and flew him to Dong Tam hospital, critically wounded and not expected to survive. By that time, Dong Tam itself was under fire and John says, “Every time we took incoming mortar fire they moved me underneath my bed, that happened so often they finally just piled some flak jackets on top of me and left them there.” It took five days before he could be safely flown out to the field hospital at Vung Tau. A week later he was in 249th General Hospital in Tokyo. John says, “They didn’t even close my open abdominal wound until I was in the hospital in Japan.” From there he was medevac’d home to Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio. He had had surgical reconstruction of an eye socket and part of his jaw and huge abdominal incisions and he was far from having healed; but, after only one week in Beach Pavilion he was ambulatory and so was released without convalescent leave. He was ready to go. Upon his return to duty, he was reassigned to Co A, 1st Bn, 41st Infantry, 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood. He says, “After a few months I was detailed to duty in III Corps Headquarters. I had a car and Austin was just an hour away, so I spent every weekend at home in Austin. During one of those weekends at home, I met my future wife, Elaine Weisner. I consider it a blessing that I was wounded and returned home early because otherwise we may never have met. On Christmas Day, 1968, I was enjoying the day with my parents in Austin. I was sitting on the sofa reading the paper when one particular article caught my attention. My childhood friend, Benny Matias had been killed in Vietnam. Benny had been in the same squad and platoon of Co E, 4th Bn, 47th Infantry as I was but I hadn’t known it. He got there after I was medevac’d out.” John Burkhardt was discharged from the Army at Fort Hood on April 30, 1969. He immediately went back to work at the Post Office in the same job he had when he was drafted, without even a day off. While working full time, he also started back to school, and that’s still not all. During that first semester, John and Elaine were married in December 1969. He kept up the pace and eight years after having left the military service, John had earned multiple degrees from Austin Community College; from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State); and from St. Edwards University. As soon as his educational goals (Law Enforcement, Business Management, and Public Administration) were attained, life changed dramatically. In 1977 John attended the Postal Inspection Service Academy in Bethesda, Maryland. Then began for him a succession of assignments of increasing responsibility, all related to postal security, that took him through to retirement. One of John’s most noteworthy assignments was as Task Force Leader of a Multi-Agency team of Postal Inspectors and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agents that were under his direction when “Unabomber,” Theodore Kaczynski, was captured. Upon his retirement after a distinguished career of 33-years, John and Elaine had a home built in Fredericksburg, Texas and moved there as soon as it was ready in December 2001. They moved into a home they purchased in Austin in July 2004. Two years after that John joined the Military Order of the Purple Heart and in his first chapter meetings he discovered and renewed friendships from his childhood days with Patriots Jim Brown, John Eli, and Raymond Diaz. This month, PATRIOT BULLETIN proudly salutes Patriot John C. Burkhardt.

1967—RTO JOHN WITH HIS RADIO AT HIS BUNK ON THE USS BENEWAH

1967—JOHN WITH FLAK JACKET, FRAG & SMOKE GRENADES, RADIO & M-16

1996—THE TASK FORCE PUTS THE CUFFS ON TED KACZYNSKI

1996—JOHN, 2ND FROM RIGHT, AND HIS TEAM OUTSIDE UNABOMBER, DR. THEODORE KACZYNSKI’S CABIN AT MOUNT LINCOLN, MONTANA

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DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS NEWS ...For Every MOPH Chapter & LAMOPH Unit…

FOR MOPH CHAPTERS: One more year has come and gone. Elaine and I hope everyone had Happy Holidays and a great New Year. I know now what older people meant when they would say, “the older you are the faster the years go by.” I’m old now and the years are going by really fast. The Mid-Year Conference is over and I had hoped for better attendance. The most important patriot in every chapter, as far as helping veterans, is the Service Officer, but attendance for Service Officer training was poor. I have asked for help in this matter for the last three years (from chapters). MOPH’s first job is helping Vets, and we cannot do that if we cannot get them into the VA system. All Service Officers need to focus more on getting veterans signed up with the VA. Commanders, start putting money away now to send your Service Officer to the next classes. Richard (Rocky) Hernandez is our Service Officer instructor, and he is a national award winning patriot who works hard at these classes. Department has VAVS money. Chapters should send me a letter requesting what is needed (VAVS funds can only be used for VA Hospitals and Clinics, or in some cases VA Centers). Please, check with me if you are not sure how you can spend the funds. Also, chapters should send in receipts as soon as the funds are spent. Do not deposit the VAVS check in your account and let it sit there for weeks, buy what is needed and send in the receipts. No receipts sent, no VAVS money, period. We need chapters to display the Department of Texas Soldiers Memorial Wall in their area. Call me for more information. But, please no repeat in areas where it has already been displayed, we need to show it across the state. Remember to keep it inside, safe and out of bad weather at night.

Commanders and adjutants, I need to know about address, phone number and e-mail address changes as soon as they happen. We cannot keep you informed if we don’t have the current information. Please send the information to Dept Adjutant, John Footman. [email protected] —Federico Rey, Commander, Department of Texas

MOPH PHONE NUMBERS COMMANDER FEDERICO REY (512) 339-8034 SENIOR VICE COMMANDER JOHN FOOTMAN (254) 699-0079 JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER JOSE MORALES (254) 224-6982 ADJUTANT JOHN FOOTMAN (254) 699-0079 FINANCE OFFICER WAYMON FAULKNER (817) 834-4181 SERVICE OFFICER ROCKY HERNANDEZ (254) 628-1326 SGT-AT-ARMS SAMUEL LUNA (281) 395-9152 JUDGE ADVOCATE C.W.(BUD) NETTLES (936) 462-8519 INSPECTOR ROBERT HERNANDEZ (254) 694-4215 WELFARE OFFICER PETER ROSIE (210) 826-8714 NATIONAL EXCECUTIVE COMMITTEEMAN DELEON WESTON (915) 821-3880 ALTERNATE NAT’L EXEC COMMITTEEMAN HARRY SMART (210) 648-4529 AMERICANISM OFFICER RAUL CAMPBELL (210) 681-1285 CHAPLAIN DON WILSON (817) 595-2626 HISTORIAN ANDREW REDDELL (832) 877-7073

LAMOPH PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY TRISH ROSIE (210) 826-8714 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT MAMIE CAMPBELL (210) 681-1285 JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT VACANT TREASURER BETTY CEPEDA (512) 278-0292 SGT-AT-ARMS MARIAH DINGMAN (254) 258-7363 TRUSTEES 1-YR, HELGA HERNANDEZ (254) 628-1326 2-YR, KATHY FOOTMAN (254) 681-5303 3-YR, GLORIA LUNA (281) 395-9152

FOR AUXILIARY UNITS Hello Ladies, New year, Fresh Start ! I certainly hope your holidays were everything you were expecting. The festivities are behind us and we are looking forward to 2009 with great expectations. It is getting a little “crazy” out there but no matter what the world is doing, our commitment is unfaltering. We will continue with our projects to serve veterans and their families as we always do in good times and not so good times. By the time you read this we will have had the Mid-Year Conference in Killeen. The Minutes will be sent by e-mail to every unit. Please make sure that I have a good e-mail address for your Unit. A big thank you to Tracy Kautz and Unit 1876 for hosting this most successful Mid-Year Conference. Now we are turning our attention to George Washington’s Birthday, which is our really big event in February. I know you will want to plan to attend your unit’s celebration of this important event. Please start thinking about which Lady you will choose for your Auxiliary Member of the Year. It is the President’s choice to select the member she thinks is the most deserving of this honor. Then please send a picture and letter to me nominating this Lady for Dept of Texas Auxiliary Member of the Year. I will announce the winner at Department Convention in June. Also, please gather the hours for your volunteers at VA Hospitals and Clinics each month. This will make reports easier to fill out in May. I am always available to you by e-mail, [email protected] or 210-826-8714 in the event you have questions or have something to share. Serving with gladness, Trish Rosie, President, Department of Texas

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Prequel to Tributes In Memory Of Patriot, and 2004 National Commander ROBERT LICHTENBERGER ARMY, VIETNAM, WOUNDED, CU CHI

20th Artillery, 1st Air Cavalry Div by both RAY DIAZ and RUFUS DYE 5/08

In Memory of Crew Members of the 12th ARMY AIR FORCE 57th Bomb Wing, 321st Bomb Group 448th Bomb Squadron (B-25’s) That Made the Supreme Sacrifice in WWII TOM MATTHEWS 9/08

...He Was Everywhere

! ...

PURPLE SANTA ACTIVITIES ...Appearances at “Safe Place” and Becker Elementary…

PURPLE SANTA DELIVERED A VAN-LOAD OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO “SAFE PLACE” STAFF ON DECEMBER 12TH. L– SAFE PLACE OPERATIONS, LAURA, DONATIONS COORDINATOR, SAMANTHA, SANTA, AND THE SAFE PLACE WAREHOUSEMAN, DAMIEN. COLLECTION WAS BY PFLUGERVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION TOGETHER WITH UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCH VOLUNTEERS.

Syke’s Reg’lars 20th U.S. Infantry Non-Stop Bull Run to Iraq (Five battalions on The Line in Vietnam) Tant Que Je Puis The Honorary Regimental Colonel 10/08

USMACV Advisors to the ARVN Infantry, Airborne and Ranger Battalions,

PURPLE SANTA HAS HAD A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH BECKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. HE WENT FROM CLASSROOM TO CLASSROOM AND DISTRIBUTED A SMALL PURPLE “GOODIE BAG” TO EACH STUDENT…..

the lonliest, scariest, and deadliest job in that war. GRUNT 10/08

101st AIRBORNE DIVISION “STRIKE FORCE” VIETNAM 1966 JIMMY & GUADALUPE MARTINEZ 8/08

In Memory Of Patriot

CARL H. KLEIN ARMY, WWII, WOUNDED IN FRANCE

2nd BN, 38th INF, 2nd INFANTRY DIV DONALD MORRISON 6/08 IN MEMORY OF

“SKY SOLDIERS” SGT DAVE FREEMAN 1LT EMERY MIKULA DIED IN VIETNAM — OCT 1966 173rd AIRBORNE BRIGADE MILT CARR 3/08

...AND HERE HE IS WITH THE SECOND GRADE. NOTICE THAT NONE OF THEM HAS A FROWN ON THEIR FACE

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BIRTHDAYS FOR THE LADIES AUXILIARY

PATRIOT BIRTHDAYS Of the TEXAS CAPITAL CHAPTER

JANUARY

Happy Birthday to our eight ladies celebrating this month.

3 STANLEY M. GEHO

JANUARY

4 FRANKLIN W. (FRANK) DENIUS 5 JAMES A. DEAN 5 DAVID J.(DAVE) HEARNE 6 RONALD H. MOERBE 6 RUBEN ESPINOZA 7 CLYDE W. SCHAFFER 8 JACK H. HADSELL

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8 JOE S. CASTRO 8 WELDON S. HOYLE 8 CURTIS A. MARTELL 9 MARIO VARGAS 10 T.C.(CHUCK) LESHIKAR 10 GONZALO GARZA 10 JESSE M. CALVO 11 CICERO ALLEN 11 DAVID C. BOSSERMAN 12 JOHN C. AUGUSTINE 14 JOHN R. (JAY) HATCH 14 RICHARD A. KISSMAN 15 EDGAR L. PARKER JR. 15 BLANTON M. ELLIS 16 WILL A. BEATTY 16 HADRON I. BANKSTON 16 JOHN F. YEARWOOD 17 ARVIN HOWINGTON 17 ALAN W. ALLEN 20 JOHN R. HAMM 21 JIM C. WEEDON 22 ARTHUR R. (RICK) TENNY 22 RAY S. LEUTY 23 CHARLES W. (CHUCK) TARVER 23 ARTHUR L. MANN 24 ARTHUR P. (ART) MASUR JR. 25 ROLAND K. (KEN) TOWERY 25 JAMES M. (HARLEY) MARRIMAN 29 KENNETH W. GILBERT 3 MARCO A. CORDON 3 JACK W. JARNIGAN 4 JOHN C. SIMCIK 4 ABELARDO T. LOYA 5 RUFUS (RUFE) DYE JR.

FEBRUARY

b i r t h d a y

6 10 17 17 18 22 23 24

OLGA CORTEZ BETTY BOSSERMAN MARLIEN RICE MAUREEN YETT MARY HOWINGTON FRANCES WAGGONER LUCILLE BENNETT REGINA MARTINEZ

—BETTY CEPEDA, Unit President

… Everything About Our...

CHAPTER MEETINGS The calendar on the back cover projects all our meetings for 2009. You see three entries every month: Breakfast, Staff, and Chapter Monthly Meetings. Here’s what those entries mean. Breakfast meetings are on the first Monday every month (July says no meetings, but it lies, several patriots show up the first Monday in July anyway) We meet at the “Jim’s Restaurant” on Hwy 183 at Burnet Road, and start about 6:30AM for the benefit of those who have jobs and need to go from there to work by 8 or 9 o’clock. These are strictly informal gab sessions, no business is conducted. Whoever gets there first stakes out the big corner table in the back for us and starts the discussion topics. We have not had any fights yet. Staff meetings are (almost) always at 12:00 Noon on the Wednesday before the regular monthly meeting. These are serious, formally announced meetings, open to all members, and are where most of the chapter’s routine business is conducted. Come to these if you want to have a hand in the details of how the chapter operates.

5 RANDALL G. HUGHES 6 JACK G. CHAVEZ 6 RICHARD E. KING 9 JACK M. GRAVES 9 RICHARD B. BOOTH 9 ALLEN G. ROEDER 9 PAUL S. CHAPA 9 GARY L. McCALLUM 10 MIKE BARTON 10 WAYNE W. HULSHOF

Regular Monthly Meetings are normally on the third Saturday of the month, subject to availability of the meeting place. Chapter 1919 participates in a big way in several of the major patriotic events during the year, especially on Veterans Day and George Washington’s Birthday and the year-end holidays. In those months, the patriotic holiday gathering also doubles as the chapter’s monthly meeting (Memorial Day, being very late in May is the exception).

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BOOSTERS Help support Chapter 1919’s programs by becoming a “Booster” and adding your name to this distinguished list for one year following. Send check contribution of $10 or more payable to Chapter 1919, MOPH and designate for “Boosters” to: Adjutant, Milt Carr, 5114 Balcones Woods Drive Suite 307 #175, Austin, TX 78759-5212.

INDIVIDUALS MARTIN ALLDAY MEMORIAL 3/08 LESLIE ALLEN 1/08 JOHN ALVARADO 6/08 ERNIE & VIRGINIA BANASAU 8/08 MIKE BARTON 11/07 WILL & MARY ANN BEATTY 6/08 JENNYNE BILSKY 5/08 STEPHEN BODNAR 5/08 CHARLES BONNEY 10/08 JACK BOWEN MEMORIAL 3/08 JOHN BRAND, D.min., J.D. 5/08 WILLIAM A. BRANT MEMORIAL 6/08 JAMES L. BROWN 6/08 JAMES P. BRYANT 8/08 JOHN & ELAINE BURKHARDT 6/08 MICHELLE BURKHARDT 1/08 MILT CARR 3/08 SEAN CARR 12/08 JOE CASTRO 9/08 BETTY CEPEDA 6/08 JIM & ELAINE CHAMBERS 10/08

GONZALO GARZA 3/08 RANDY & VIOLA GREENE 8/08 JACK HADSELL 3/08 LEE HAGAN 6/08 FLETCHER HARRIS 9/08 JOE & GAIL HARTNESS 9/08 BOB HARWOOD 5/08 HERMAN HAYDON 5/08 BOB HEFFORD 12/08 O.H. HUBBARD, JR 5/08 FRED & LAURIE HUDGEONS 5/08 CHARLES KELLEY 6/08 THE KERR FAMILY 7/08 CARL KLEIN MEMORIAL 9/08 LEW LEDBETTER 8/08 JACK LEDFORD 3/08 JOE LEVINSON 12/08 HAROLD & MAUREEN LEWIS 12/08 ROBERT LICHTENBERGER MEMORIAL 6/08 JIMMY & GUADALUPE MARTINEZ 8/08 MARK MARTINEZ 12/07 JOHNNIE & JOHNNIE MATL 3/08

MINNIE RICE 2/08 HAROLD ROSE 8/07 ED SCHMALREID 8/08 CLARENCE SEIDL 2/08 JAMES D. SEYMOUR, JR. 5/08 CARLOS SOZA 8/08 HARRY SWAN MEMORIAL 12/08 GABRIEL TAMAYO 12/08 MIKE TARPLELY 5/08 CHARLES TARVER 3/08 W.R. TIMMERMANN 2/08 VA OUTPATIENT CLINIC DONATIONS, Daily SERVANDO & MARY VARELA 8/08 JACK WARDEN 5/08 PDC HARVEY WEBB 08/08 HAROLD WEEDEN 11/08 ROBERT & JUNE WHITMAN 12/07 JOE & MARY ANN ZORNICK 3/08

ORGANIZATIONS ACES 3/08 MOC 33 AUXILIARY Monthly MOPH SERVICE FOUNDATION ODD FELLOWS LODGE 23 12/08 TEXAS MILITARY FORCES MUSEUM, Monthly VFW POST 856 Quarterly

ALL-STAR DONORS SPECIAL RECOGNITION IS DUE TO EACH OF OUR SUPER BOOSTERS, INDIVIDUALS WHOSE GIFTS HAVE TOTALED $100 OR MORE — AND CORPORATE LEVEL DONORS WHO HAVE GIVEN $1,000 OR MORE DURING THE PAST YEAR.

PATRIOT BULLETIN SALUTES — Martin L. Allday Memorial — John Alvarado, Jr. — Mike Barton — John H. Brand, D.min,J.D.— —John & Elaine Burkhardt—Jim & Elaine Chambers — Bruce Davis — Paul DeVault— Ray Diaz — —Wallace E. Downey — Rufus Dye, Jr.— John Eli— John Nolan Friedman Mem. — Jack Hadsell — — Fletcher Harris — Robert Harwood — Herman Haydon — Carl Klein Memorial — Lew Ledbetter — — Harold & Maureen Lewis — Jimmy & Guadalupe Martinez — Ponciano Morales,III — — Henry & Delores Papke — E.L. Parker — Fred & Elaine Rey — Harold Rose — Mike Tarpley— CORPORATE LEVEL: — BAE Systems — Harold & Elrose Weeden — — Gary Pender — MOC 33 Auxiliary — Outback Steakhouse — VFW Post 856 — JACK CHAVEZ 5/08 BOB COOK 5/08 JOE CRUZ 3/08 ROBERT S. DALTON 2/08 BRUCE DAVIS 10/08 PAUL DEVAULT 5/08 RAYMOND DIAZ 12/08 WALLACE E. DOWNEY 10/08 PHILIP DREISESZUN 12/08 RUFUS DYE 7/08 JOHN ELI 9/08 JOSEPH F. FRIEDMAN 12/08 VIC FRYSINGER 1/08

MEMORIAL, "PAPPY," MASCOT 12/08 "GENERAL PATTON," MASCOT #2 12/08 RAY MCKEE 9/08 GEORGE MIGL 1/08 DONALD MORRISON 5/08 BILL NEWBERRY 3/08 CHAPTER 1919 OFFICERS 8/08 HENRY & DELORES PAPKE 9/08 EDGAR L. PARKER 12/08 GARY PENDER 12/08 FRANK & KATHY PLUMMER 10/08 FRED RETTIG 8/08 FRED & ELAINE REY 9/08 MARLIEN RICE 2/08

BUSINESSES AUSTIN DUCK ADVENTURES 11/08 BAE SYSTEMS 1/08 FISH CITY GRILL 5/08 GOLDEN CORRAL, 9710 N LAMAR, 8/08 HILL'S CAFÉ 5/08 INSTY-PRINTS S [ELLER FAMILY] 4360 S CONG THE KYLE FAMILY MCKINNEY E-SYSTEMS & ASSOC., INC. 5/08 MIKE'S PRINT SHOP 6448 HWY 290E MORALES & ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS, INC 6/08 RANDALLS FOOD MKTS, INC, QTRLY SYSCO FOOD SVC OF AUSTIN, QTRLY

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PATRIOT BULLETIN

Tributes In Memory and Gratitude CPL BENNY MATIAS, JR.

For a donation of $25, or more, we will place your message in subsequent publications of this bulletin for the next twelve months. Special Note: Your contribution may be tax-deductible to the extent of the law prescribed in the Internal Revenue Code. —MILT CARR, (512) 343-7940

9th Infantry Division 12-11-68-RVN

In Memory of My Fallen Comrades 5th REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM

CPL JOE GARCIA

ARMY, KOREA

173rd Airborne Brigade 6-4-69-RVN Who gave their all to their country and will never be forgotten RAYMOND DIAZ 1/08

In TRIBUTE to the Men of Company “M” 223rd Infantry Regiment 40th Infantry Division KOREAN WAR JOHN & ANN LINGO 5/08

1950-1953 LEST WE FORGET JAMES P. BRYANT 8/08

In Tribute To My Sons: MAJOR JACK E. BOWEN, USAF USAF Acad Class ‘68, FAC, Vietnam CHIEF RONALD R. BOWEN, USN Nuclear Sub U.S.S. SAM HOUSTON JACK BOWEN 3/08

IN MEMORY OF

In Memory OF

J.M. HICKS

BETTY DYE

P.O.W. IN JAPAN FOR 36 MONTHS DURING WWII JACK HADSELL 3/08

In Memory of those pilots of the

367th Fighter Group —WWII Europe That made the supreme sacrifice RUFUS DYE 7/08

AND ALL OTHER PATRIOTS AND LADIES

OF THE CHAPTER & UNIT 1919 WHO HAVE PASSED ON RUFUS DYE 7/08

IN MEMORY

Staff Sgt JOHN J. BROWN A Good Soldier, A Great Father JIM BROWN 12/09

IN MEMORY HANG IN THERE

MEN OF MOPH 1919 “HAVE A GREAT YEAR” RAY McKEE 9/08

Of the 27 crew chiefs and pilots Who died in a single plane crash In England during WWII

439th Troop Carrier Group JACK HADSELL 3/08

To Honor

In Memory of Members of

In Memory Of

LUCILLE P. BOWEN Wife Of 62 years Of PATRIOT JACK BOWEN, M/SGT, USAF, RET.

She Was A True Air Force Lady JACK BOWEN 3/08

IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED IN KOREA IN 1950—1952 HAROLD [TEX-HOSS-HAL] LEWIS 12/08

TO THOSE WHO SERVED

Semper Fidelis WILLIAM NEWBERRY 3/08

In Memory of “Troopers” Ron -Charlie -Dick -Johnnie KIA - Korean War - 1950 Eighth Cavalry Regiment First Cavalry Division JAMES LOGAN BROWN 1/08

In Memory of Patriot

ARTHUR RICE SURVIVOR OF THE

BATAAN DEATH MARCH WORLD WAR II MINNIE RICE 5/08

MEMORIAL

Col Bill Brant

MACV Advisory Team 79

WWII Vietnam

who were killed or wounded, and to those who survived the conflict

PATRIOT HAROLD MARBURGER

Vietnam —1964 - 1965

MARCH 22nd

HIS FAMILY 6/08

In Memory of the pilots of the

HAL HUTH 12/08

In Memory of the Pilots of the

388th Tactical Fighter Wing VIETNAM WAR

18th Fighter / Bomber Group Who Lost Their Lives

That Made the Supreme Sacrifice

KOREAN WAR

RUFUS DYE 7/08

During The RUFUS DYE 7/08

IN HONOR OF HAROLD’S BIRTHDAY

BETTY MARBURGER 3/08

To those who gave their lives 103rd Infantry Division

Europe, 1944-45 JOHN BRAND, D.Min., J.D. 5/08

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More Tributes In Memory Of Patriot

SAMUEL BIER ARMY AIR FORCE, WWII, EUROPE, POW

465th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force RUFUS DYE 5/08

In Memory Of Patriot

WILLIAM A. BRANT ARMY, WWII, EUROPE 1st Infantry Division, Wounded, Normandy RUFUS DYE 5/08

In Memory Of Patriot

WILLIAM J. DALLAS ARMY AIR FORCE, WWII, EUROPE, POW

303rd BOMB GROUP, 8TH AIR FORCE WOUNDED IN THE AIR OVER GERMANY RUFUS DYE 5/08 In Memory and Honor of the Heroes of

ADVISOR TEAM 1, I CORPS, VIETNAM-1971 And Of The

Heroes of Operation Enduring Freedom Thank You For Sacrificing Your All To Ensure Peace and Freedom for all Mankind JOE & GAIL HARTNESS 9/08

Deceased Chapter 1919 Patriots and Ladies FY — 2009 MARTIN L. ALLDAY JACK S. BOWEN LONNIE BROWN ALLEN W. BUTTRICK MARCUS COHEN HARRY G. DAVES, JR. JOE E. DELGADO WILLIAM F. (BILL) KING, SR. AUGUST J. (GUS) KADERKA RUFUS L. (LES) LEGGETT JOHN MORRISSET LEONARD E. RICE RICK G. SELLERS BOBBY G. SMITH JOE M. TAFOYA AUSTIN Z. YOUNG

TAPS Patriot MARTIN L. ALLDAY passed away December 8, 2008 at age 82. Martin was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, then lived in Waco and Austin, Texas during his growing up years. He graduated from Schreiner Institute in 1943 and was inducted into the Army in 1944. After training, he was shipped overseas as an Infantry replacement, arriving on Okinawa on May 1, 1945. He was assigned to Company C, 382nd Infantry, 96th Infantry Division as First Scout in his rifle squad. He was wounded by machine gun fire during bitter fighting to take “Zebra Hill,” and was medevac’d to Guam. Battle losses had been heavy and Martin was among many other wounded volunteering to return to the fighting before their wounds had healed He was back in Company C before the fighting ended and participated in the equally dangerous mopping-up cave clearing operations. Martin was discharged from the Army in 1946, attended the University of Texas, and graduated with a Law degree in 1951. He was a recognized authority in the law concerning oil and gas properties throughout his long and distinguished career of 56 years service in law firms in Midland, Houston and Austin, and government positions including Legal Examiner for the Texas Railroad Commission in Austin, and Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. He was a life long volunteer in community and civic affairs, serving at various times as Director of the National Parks Foundation, Chairman of the Texas State Cemetery Committee, President of the Midland Chamber of Commerce, Trustee of the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Governor of the High Sky Children’s Ranch, and many others. He has served as Judge Advocate of our Chapter 1919, Military Order of the Purple Heart since having joined ten years ago as a life member. Surviving Martin is his wife, Patricia of 54 years; his three children, Katherine Timberlake, Elizabeth Knowles and Martin Allday III, and their families. Patriot ALLEN W. BUTTRICK passed away recently at age 88. Allen was an Army WWII veteran. He was wounded during the fighting on the Island of Saipan, in the Marianas Group, in June 1944 while assigned to Company H, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. He was predeceased by wife, Johnnie, only a few months prior, and is survived by their granddaughter Sarah Weber and her husband Herman and family of Dallas, Texas.

The MILITARY ORDER of the PURPLE HEART of the U.S.A. TEXAS CAPITAL CHAPTER 1919 5701 PAINTED VALLEY DR AUSTIN, TEXAS 78759-5527

NONPROFITORGANIZATION U.S.POSTAGE PAID AUSTIN,TX PERMITNO.504

“ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED”

EETING NEXT M 4th ! Y2 JANUAR

JULY ’09

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

3rd BREAKFAST

NO MEETINGS SUMMER BREAK !

JANUARY ’09 5TH, BREAKFAST 21ST —STAFF NOON SAT., 24TH, 9AM MONTHLY MEETING “G.I. BREAKFAST” CAMP MABRY CAFETERIA

Guest Speaker will be: SHERI SOLTES, TEXAS

HEARING & SERVICE DOGS

5th STAFF NOON SAT, 8TH, 11AM PURPLE HEART DAY CELEBRATION

7th BREAKFAST 16th STAFF NOON SAT, 19th, 10AM

OCTOBER 5th BREAKFAST

2nd BREAKFAST

21st STAFF NOON

4th STAFF NOON

SAT, 24th, 10AM MONTHLY MEETING CAMP MABRY MUSEUM, Bldg # 6 Guest Speaker: U.S. Rep MICHAEL McCAUL

“The 226th Anniversary Of the Purple Heart”

MONTHLY MEETING CAMP MABRY

FOOD AND DRINKS FREE FOR PATRIOTS, FAMILY & GUESTS

MUSEUM, Bldg # 6 Lunch Afterward at

Luby’s Cafeteria

CAMP MABRY MUSEUM

Luby’s Cafeteria

FEBRUARY

MARCH

2ND, BREAKFAST

Lunch Afterward at

2ND BREAKFAST

18TH —STAFF NOON 18TH —STAFF NOON FRI, 20TH, 6PM GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY DINNER PARTY

SAT, 21ST, 10AM MONTHLY MEETING CAMP MABRY MUSEUM

At “The Austin Club”

Lunch Afterward at

Great Entertainment, Great Food, and, a Great Time at a Great Party

LUBY’S CAFETERIA MOPAC at Steck

NOVEMBER

WED, 11th, 9AM VETERAN’S DAY PARADE up Congress Ave, then

CEREMONY

DECEMBER 7th BREAKFAST SAT, 5th, 11:30—1PM SANTA’S BENEFIT LUNCH

SUN, 6th, 1—3 PM CHAPTER / UNIT HOLIDAY PARTY SUN 13th, 1—3PM

FOLLOWS AT 11AM

CHILDREN’S PARTY

MOPAC at Steck

SOUTH STEPS OF THE CAPITOL BLDG

BOTH PARTIES HELD IN ODD FELLOWS LODGE #23

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

6TH BREAKFAST 15TH —STAFF NOON

4TH BREAKFAST 20TH- STAFF NOON SAT, 23RD, 10AM MONTHLY MEETING, AND

SAT, 18TH, 10AM MONTHLY MEETING ANNUAL ELECTION

OFFICERS INSTALLATION HILL’S CAFÉ

CAMP MABRY MUSEUM

TBA—MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES

Lunch Afterward at

Luby’s Cafeteria MOPAC at Steck

4700 S Congress Ave

PFLUGERVILLE COOK-WALDEN CAPITAL PARK 14619 N IH-35

1ST BREAKFAST 17TH—STAFF NOON SAT, 20TH, 11AM

Chapter

ANNUAL PICNIC FULL COOKOUT MENU

CAMP MABRY PICNIC GROUNDS Free For Members, Family, And Guests

CY-2009 TEXAS CAPITAL CHAPTER 1919 EVENTS CALENDAR