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April 21, 2016 • Vol. 93, No. 4

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The 1st District American Legion Riders fi lled in for the Union Grove Post No. 171 Honor Guard on March 10th to provide the honors for two funerals held that day at the SE Wisconsin Veterans Cemetery at Union Grove. The 1st District Riders consider it an honor to help out with these ceremonies whenever needed.

UNION GROVE INTERMENT

SAL Donates GI Josh Dogs Post Donates to Money Makers

The Matson-Miller Post No. 330 in Wilson made a $500 donation on Monday, March 7 to the “Money Makers”, one of Glenwood City’s Destination Imagina-tion teams. Pictured in front presenting the check to team members were Auxiliary Presi-dent Elsie Obermueller and her husband Post No. 330 Commander Bob Obermueller. Pic-tured in back from left to right are team mem-

On March 22nd, SAL De-tachment Chaplain Brad Ca-tura presented GI Josh Dog kits to the Milwaukee Fisher House. Pictured here are; Waukesha County Auxiliary President Sam Catura; SAL Detachment Chaplain Brad-ford Catura; Milwaukee Fisher House Manager Jen-nifer Kiefer; Fisher House Executive Director Curtiss Peck.

The GI Josh dog is a stuffed animal wearing a camoufl age bandana, meant to comfort the child of a deployed service member. Each dog comes with a book titled “I’ll Be OK.” The pro-gram has been strongly sup-ported by Wisconsin Adju-tant General Donald Dunbar and others across the state.

While nothing can replace a mother or father in uni-form deploying halfway across the world for up to a year, Wisconsin offi cials are hoping “GI Josh” can soften the pains of sepa-ration. Chaplain Catura stated that there was unani-mous agreement among the SAL members in Wiscon-sin to extend the program to children staying at the Milwaukee Fisher House. According to Chaplain Catura, “It is the hope of our members that the GI Josh dogs will provide as much comfort to the chil-dren whose parent is being treated at the Zablocki VA Medical Center as they do for children whose parents are deployed.”

bers Elizabeth Dayton, Aubree Logghe, Genna Gretzlock, Colin Streh-lo, Jackson Logghe, Ilan Anderson and Elek Anderson. The $500 included $200 raised Bingo Night at the Le-gion on February 11th, a $200 donation from the Post and a $100 do-nation from the Auxil-iary. The funds will be used to assemble and ship 40 to 50 care box-es to active-duty sol-diers serving overseas.

—photo by Shawn DeWitt, Glenwood CitTribune Press Reporter