VFW Post 328 News DECEMBER 2017 - VOLUME 4 - ISSUE 12
Mother Post of Wisconsin STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN
DECEMBER 7, 1941
“A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
FROM THE COMMANDER’S DESK
Greetings Fellow Comrades;
I have some sad news to bring you if you haven’t heard. One of our
long-time volunteers and bingo follower’s husband lost his battle with cancer
recently. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Todd
Arvold.
I am soliciting ideas to help bring back our members to our monthly
Meetings on a regular/semi-regular basis? Please email me with ideas at
[email protected] or mail me with your ideas to 200 Veterans Road
Stoughton, WI 53589.
We are looking for ideas for our upcoming 100th Anniversary, which
will occur in January 2020. If you can work it into your schedule we would
love to see you at the next meeting of the Post on 19 December at 18:30 hours.
Now that we are coming into Holiday Season with Thanksgiving and
Christmas. I hope you all have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season with your
Family. Please DO NOT drink and drive.
Regards:
Scott Richmond, Commander
Call or text: (608) 516-1460 Weekends or weekdays after working hours
Email - [email protected]
7/01/17-6/30/18
Commander: Scott Richmond
Sr. Vice: Ilein Taipe
Jr. Vice: Dewayne Lloyd
Qtr. Master: Vic Duesel
Asst. Qtr. Master: Rick
Kumlien
Chaplain: Rob Kojo
Judge Advocate: Rod Nedlose
Surgeon: Rod Haried
Trustees:
3 Bradley Stepp
2 Rodney Nedlose
1 Rod Haried
Officer of the Day:
Clarence Osland
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VFW Dues: $38.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Web site address:
http://www.stoughtonvfw.org/
Auxiliary Officers
President: Edee March
Sr. Vice: Evelyn Kahl
Jr. Vice: Linda Schmidt
Secretary: Linda Schmidt
Treasurer: Jody Kumlien
Chaplain: Annette Klingaman
Guard: Judy Casey
Conductress: Nita Halverson
Patriotic Inst.: Judy
Pellett
Flag Bearer: Judy Casey
Historian: Evelyn Kahl
Banner Bearer: Nita
Halverson
Buddy Poppy: Evelyn Kahl
Post 328: 608-873-9042
Cmdr. - Scott Richmond
(608) 516-1460
Editor: Doug “Ole” Olson
(608) 873-8924
Bar/Hall Rental:
(608) 873-9042
Manager: Jean Torgerson
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Auxiliary Dues:
$20.00
Newsletter Deadline:
23rd of each month
FROM THE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT’S DESK
President Edee
Happy Holidays,
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I know I did. It was a busy time for me.
Had Thanksgiving then Christmas with my family. Now home and exhausted, but
enjoyed every moment of it. We had some nice travel weather and hope the same
for the upcoming holidays.
Remember our BREAKFAST with SANTA and bring your camera.
Did you REMEMBER the CHRISTMAS DINNER?? Did you sign up to set up,
clean up, bring a salad or pies??
Hope to see you there and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR. Safe travels and good night.
Please remember our veterans who won't be with their loved ones this holiday season. PRAY for PEACE.
Edee March, Auxiliary President
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dec. 2nd Breakfast with Santa 8:00 to 10:30am*
Dec. 3rd Arvold Family Benefit 1:00pm til? *
Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Day
Dec. 19th Auxiliary meeting at 6:30
Dec. 25th Christmas Day Free Dinner*
Dec. 31st New Year’s Eve Party*
(*Please see the flyers in this newsletter for event details)
How about you? The average driver spends 55 minutes a day in the car.
Dec. 6st - Cootie Scratch
Dec. 19th
House Committee 5:00 pm
Post Meeting 6:30 pm
Auxiliary Meeting 6:30 pm
Web Address:
www.stoughtonvfw.org
FROM THE DESK of the QUARTERMASTER
Congratulations to Ilein Taipe, Ilein is our new Senior Vice Commander.
VetJobs:
VetJobs services makes it easy to reach transitioning military, National Guard, Reserve Component Members
and veterans who have separated over the last several decades. Due to the services provided by VetJobs, they
are now productive members of the civilian work force in all disciplines, as well as their family members. Visit
VetJobs at https://vetjobs.com/ to see services and job opportunities provided by this program.
A note to our advertisers, we will no longer be sending out invoices. Starting in 2018 we will be taking
donations only for advertising during the week of Veterans Day. We will send a reminder and post it in our
newsletter. Thank you for your support.
Attendance Drawing this month was Michael E. Ramsell, he was not present or paid and lost out on $584.00.
Vic Duesel – Quartermaster
ARVOLD FAMILY BENEFIT
PLEASE DEC. 3RD
JOIN US 1:00 PM
Samantha, Becca, Todd and Zach Arvold
On November 19th Todd, a lifelong Stoughton resident, passed away after a courageous battle
with cancer. For months prior to that he had been unable to work, which created not only a
hardship upon himself but his family. Both Todd and his wife Becca have been active
volunteers at the VFW for many years, and it is now time to return the favor.
If you are able to donate prizes or food items for lunch, please contact:
DAWN HANSON – (608) 513-3268 (Call or text)
VETERANS BUSY ON VETERANS DAY
Veterans from both the American Legion Post 59 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 328 fanned out across
the community to participate in Veterans Day Activities.
To start things off, 4 Legion members went to Oregon at 2:15 on Friday, November 10, to participate in Veterans
Day activities at the Oregon Manor Nursing Home. At 3:00, 5 members of the American Legion Funeral Honor Guard
traveled to Highland Memory Cemetery in Cottage Grove to conduct funeral services for a deceased veteran. At 7:30
a.m. on Saturday, November 11, 12 Legion Members were at the Stoughton High School to greet more than 1100 students
as they arrived for classes. Later in the day, they gave flag folding demonstrations to the students. At 11:00, five
Legionnaires participated in ceremonies at the Sand Hill School, while several Legion members, joined by members of
VFW Post 328, helped conduct the traditional Veterans Day ceremony at Fox Prairie Elementary School. Later, 2 Legion
members visited hospitalized veterans at the Veterans Hospital in Madison. To conclude the activities that day, 5 Legion
members participated the ceremony for veterans at the Skaalen Nursing Home. Throughout the week, Legion members
also spoke about their personal military experiences to classes at the Stoughton High School.
In addition, 12 members of the Yahara River Quilting Group traveled to the Veterans Hospital in Madison on
November 11 to present hand-made quilts to 82 hospitalized veterans. The women had worked all year making these
quilts, which was really appreciated by the veterans.
As veterans, we served our country; now we are serving our community.
Submitted by Bud Erickson
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
Dec. 1, 1941 – The first Civil Air Patrol in the U.S. was organized and established just days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Since radio calls for military bombers were often unproductive, unarmed CAP fliers dived in mock attacks to force subs to break and run. A German commander later confirmed that U-boat operations were withdrawn from the United States “because of those damned little red and yellow airplanes.”
Dec. 4, 1864 – U.S.S. (Bullwinkle?) Moose, U.S.S. (Rudolph?) Reindeer, and U.S.S. Silver (Fish?) Lake, engaged field batteries on the Cumberland River near Bell’s Mills, Tennessee, silenced them, and recaptured three transports.
Dec. 7, 1941– At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber, bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan, appeared out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
Dec. 13, 1636 – The National Guard was officially created in 1916; however, the heritage of the National Guard traces back to English common law and the citizen militias of the British North American colonies. The National Guard is older than the nation itself. Three regiments of the Massachusetts Army National Guard are directly descended from Massachusetts regiments formed over 370 years ago.
Dec. 14, 1944 – The former Japanese liner Oryoku Maru left Manila with 1,619 American POWs packed in the holds. Planes from the “USS Hornet” attacked, causing the “Hell Ship” to sink the following day. Only 200 of the men survived.
Dec. 16, 1944 – With the Anglo-Americans closing in on Germany from the west and the Soviets approaching from the east, Adolf Hitler orders a massive attack against the western Allies, by three German armies. The German counterattack took the Allies entirely by surprise, and the experienced German troops wrought havoc on the American line, creating a triangular “bulge” 60 miles deep and 50 miles wide along the Allied front. Historian Stephen Ambrose estimated that by war’s end, “Of the 600,000 GIs involved, almost 20,000 were killed, another 20,000 were captured, and 40,000 were wounded.” The United States also suffered its second-largest surrender of troops of the war: More than 7,500 members of the 106th Infantry Division capitulated at one time at Schnee Eifel, Germany.
Dec. 17, 1925 – Col. William “Billy” Mitchell was convicted of insubordination at his court-martial and was found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good of the armed services. He was awarded the Medal of Honor 20 years after his death.
Dec. 17, 1944 – Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy Massacre – 84 American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by the Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe, under the command of Lt. Colonel Joachim Peiper. (Peiper was murdered in France in 1976 and deemed as poetic justice for the man who cheated the hangman’s noose in 1946.)
Dec. 19, 1777 – With the onset of the bitter winter cold, the Continental Army under General George Washington, still in the field, enters its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia. Of the 11,000 soldiers stationed at Valley Forge, hundreds died from disease. As the winter stretched on, Prussian military adviser Frederick von Steuben kept the soldiers busy with drills and training in modern military strategy. When Washington’s army marched out of Valley Forge on June 19, 1778, the men were better disciplined and stronger in spirit than when they had entered. Nine days later, they defeated the British under Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey.
Dec. 19, 2001 – The fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots.
Dec. 22, 1944 – In the advance of German 5th Panzer Army, Bastogne is surrounded and the Germans demand the surrender of United States troops. The demand to surrender, issued to the American defenders, is rejected by Brigadier Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, who reportedly replied: “Nuts!”
Dec. 26, 1786 – Daniel Shay led a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt. Shay was a Revolutionary War veteran who led a short-lived insurrection in western Massachusetts to protest a tax increase that had to be paid in cash, a hardship for veteran farmers who relied on barter and didn’t own enough land to vote. The taxes were to pay off the debts from the Revolutionary War, and those who couldn’t pay were evicted or sent to prison. (Thank you for your service)
- Ole
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DECEMBER 2017 – LUNCH MENU & EVENTS (Bar open at 9:00 AM – Lunch from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM)
*VFW 328* OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
SALMON
LOAF
OR FISH
FRY
2 BREAKFAST
WITH SANTA
8:00 – 10:30 am
3
ARVOLD
FAMILY
BENEFIT
1:00 pm til?
4
KITCHEN
CLOSED
BAR OPENS
AT
3:00 PM
5
TATER TOT
CASSEROLE
UNIROYAL
6
MEAT LOAF
ROTARY
VENEVOLL
7
CHIPPED
BEEF
Over
TOAST or
MASHED
8
9
10
MEAT
RAFFLE @
NOON
11
KITCHEN
CLOSED
BAR OPENS
AT
3:00 PM
12
SWISS
MUSHROOM
BURGERS
13
BAKED
CHICKEN
ROTARY
14
PORK
TENDERLOIN
or
SWISS STEAK
DANE COUNTY
15
16
CUSTOMER
5:30 til -?
17
MEAT
RAFFLE @
NOON
18
KITCHEN
CLOSED
BAR OPENS
AT
3:00 PM
19
LIVER &
ONIONS
20
CHICKEN
&
BISCUITS
ROTARY
VENEVOLL
21
TACO
SALAD
22
23
24th – Closing
at 3:00 pm
31st – NEW
YEAR’S EVE
PARTY! (See our flyers)
25
FREE
CHRISTMAS
DINNER
BAR OPEN
2:00 til 6:00
26
SOUP &
SANDWICH
(Tomato &
Grilled Cheese)
27
SWISS STEAK
ROTARY
28
GOULASH
29
30
SUNDAY – BLOODY MARY’S $3.00 BOTTLED WATER - $1.25
SUPER EUCHRE
Always the LAST MONDAY of every month.
Happy Hour Prices and Snacks Provided Every Packer and Badger Football Game!
WEB SITE: www.stoughtonvfw.org
EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
VFW Post 328
200 Veteran’s Road
Stoughton, WI 53589
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Post & Aux. Meetings
6:30 Dec. 19th
Euchre
Monday Nights
7 p.m.
Bingo
Thursday Nights
7:00 p.m.
Friday Night Fish Fry
4-8:00 p.m.