Meeting This Week | Fleet Reserve Association | American Legion
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MEETING THIS WEEK
Wednesday, 10AM,
229 Lake Ella Dr.
Tallahassee FL 32303 as
Branch 34 of the Fleet Reserve Association will be leading the meeting
USS Liberty Veterans Association POLL results
Coalition voted 83% in favor of hosting the USS Liberty Vets this June. I will be discussing with the board how we can make this event happen. STAY TUNED
Post 13 is participating in the Homeless/At-Risk Veterans’ Stand Down at the Lawson Center on the campus of FAMU. The dates are Friday and Saturday May 15 and 16 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. The greatest need for these veterans is underwear!! You can help meet this need by purchasing men’s boxer and/or briefs and bring them to the Post NLT Wednesday May 13. If you come and no-one is in the office, a box will be in the foyer for you to place your items. Please, only new underwear in the original packaging will be donated. All sizes are needed. The need is great and you can help. Thank you in advance for your donations.
Please invite your family and friends to the Post’s annual Memorial Day Service at Oakland Cemetery on Monday, May 25, at 11:00 am. Please arrive by 10:45 am. This is a solemn and emotional service and well attended. Our keynote speaker is our Post Adjutant Shirley Combass. Adjutant Combass is a veteran/retiree of the United States Army. Chaplain and Past Commander John Folsom’s granddaughter, Kaitlin Folsom will sing the National Anthem. Several political dignitaries will also be present. The Big Bend Honor Guard will present the closing honors.
Greetings, Team
In Leon County, the next Graduation for Veterans completing the VTCt program will be May 18. THIS Monday, May 4, 3 pm is your Next opportunity to observe a session of the Leon County Veterans Treatment Court (Leon County Courthouse, Courtroom 2E), and maybe you will consider becoming an invaluable Veteran Mentor for the Vets working their way through the program and recovery. Several Vets are awaiting a Mentor.
Yesterday’s walk-in legal clinic involved our Team of 17 Volunteers again (including 6 attys) working with 11 Veterans and family members (Thursday, 4/30/26) at American Legion Sauls Bridges Post 13. Plus we assisted several others by phone and email. The Leon County Tax Collector’s Office again helped several Veterans take their next step toward Reinstating their Driver’s Licenses! On Wednesday, the Food Delivery team (Khalid Shafi, Charles Robinson, Gregory Howard, Eddie McMillian, Sam Adams, and Leonard Bell) drove the truck and trailer load to various sites around the county.
REDUX: It’s time for an advocacy email from you! These next couple of weeks the Governor will be receiving, reviewing and deciding whether to approve many of the bills that were passed in this year’s legislative session that “ended” last month. His office needs to hear your emphatic support for General Patt Maney’s House Bill 199 which will strengthen Veterans’ Treatment Courts all over the state by increasing the number of Veterans entering the Criminal Court program to rebuild their lives and record, recover from addiction or other behavioral/ trauma personal problems and succeed in moving forward for their families and their future. Even a brief phone message to his office will accomplish the same purpose of showing our support (850/717-9337). The link to the Executive Office of the Governor is: https://www.flgov.com/eog/leadership/people/ron-desantis/contact
One special need: The number of issues with the VA is outstripping our local resources to keep up with the complications, new claims, and VA delays; so, any other attorneys wanting to join our “VA Law team,” we need you, and have training and national legal resources available to bring you into the fray. Were you a JAG? Have you helped with Social Security or other federal agencies that you already have a headstart on picking up VA law?
What else?
Thank you, Dan Hendrickson, for the Tallahassee Veterans Legal Collaborative www.Tallahasseeveteranslegal.com
PO Box 11091,
Tallahassee, Fl 32302,
850/ 570-1967