AARP set a goal to provide a million meals to our Chicago senior citizens by having volunteers assembling a million jambalaya mixes. It was lots of fun and winners for fastest packers with Carla Hall (The Chew).
AARP Million Meals for Seniors
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Full Circle meeting in Washington DC with MP and Paratrooper
With Iraq War Veteran Military Policewoman Captain Dawn Halfacker
Iraq War Veteran Military Policewoman Captain Dawn Halfacker, Wounded Warrior lost her right arm in combat.
2 Star Female general Paratrooper greets Cpt. Halfacker;
NWVU at senate with congresswoman Robin Kelly
Greek Warrior Athena
Female veterans from Vietnam era
- Speaker at the Military Veterans Museum event in Washington, DC;
- Iraq War Veteran Military Policewoman Captain Dawn Halfacker, Wounded Warrior lost her right arm in combat. Now President and CEO of an IT firm.
- Female 4 Star General Legere Paratrooper greets Cpt. Halfacker;
- NWVU at senate with congresswoman Robin Kelly
- Female veterans from Vietnam era
2016 National Black Book Festival
Interesting from The HistoryMakers
Interesting from The HistoryMakers
On December 30, 1943, the U.S. Army authorized the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first platoon of African American paratroopers in American history. The army selected twenty volunteers to undergo rigorous training at Fort Benning, Georgia, to become a part of the parachute battalion, which included intense physical conditioning, practice jumps from a 250-foot tower, and finally, test jumps from a plane. By the winter of 1944, seventeen out of the original twenty had passed their training course, and were activated as U.S. Army paratroopers.
The 555th did not see combat during World War II. They had originally been slated to travel to Europe to provide reinforcement during the Battle of the Bulge, but the U.S. turned the tide against Germany before they could be shipped out. Instead, the 555th was deployed to the West Coast, where they help to survey and protect the northwestern United States from forest fires caused by a Japanese fire balloon program. Many members of the 555th would later serve as combat troops during the Korean War.
HistoryMaker Lt. Col. Roger Walden was one of those first seventeen who got through paratrooper training, known as The Triple Nickles. Walden remembers the day when he, having volunteered originally to get away from his unit and face a new challenge, realized the extent of what he had signed up for: “I didn’t really know what getting into the paratroopers was about, or probably I would have gotten out–and not until I saw the 250-foot towers; I think they had three or four of ’em there, and the thirty-four-foot tower that they had to jump off of out there, and then I realized what this test group was gonna go through, and what it ultimately was gonna be–jumpin’ outta planes. So I felt it behooved me to give my all to it, and that’s what I was going to do–live or die.”
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Meet our “VERY SPECIAL GUESTS” ….these ladies represent HONOR, STRENGTH, POWER, and NEVER ENDING BEAUTY!!!
….and YES they served our country well!!
Dawn N. Sanchez: Military Wife and Author of Call to Duty,” she wrote this book to help, to empower our country where life has divided us and to bring us together as a nation. She is excited about sharing her life and testimony to help others with tips and guides on how to have a happy military life. Her passion is to help and assist people to live their best life in anything that they do and to enjoy what they do.
LaTreece Nelson: Is a Specialist (SPC) she was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She joined the U.S. Army to serve her country in 2008. She served in the Army Reserves as a Human Resources
Specialist with the 822 Military Police Company in Arlington Heights, IL for 4 years. In 2011 SPC Nelson deployed to Afghanistan with the Joint Task Force for Operation Enduring
Freedom.
Glenda Dugar is a 20 year Retired U.S. Army Airborne Veteran. Beginning her military career as the first Black Airborne Female Policewoman (MP) at her Fort Bragg, NC 118th MP unit
(Airborne) to serving in various key positions throughout the world culminating her military as an Army flight Operations Branch Manager (ATC)(93P). She is an author her book is “In My
Own Words”, “”Confessions of An Airborne Soldier and” Career Soldier. TM
Glenda Dugar Career Soldier TM The Career Soldier Series TM 