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

srjarhead75@gmail.com 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 - srjarhead75@gmail.com

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/

stoughtonvfw328@gmail.com

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

Waucoman@gmail.com

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: stoughtonvfw328@gmail.com

VFW Post 328

200 Veteran’s Road

Stoughton, WI 53589

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VFW Post 328

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Veterans 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.