Sea Cadets | Veterans Parade | Robert Duvall | Veteran 2A rights
Weekly Report 🎖️
Veteran Leaders Honor Tallahassee Sea Cadets
—From Facebook
Talk about community support! So thankful for all the help on today’s AMI and awards ceremony for the US Naval Sea Cadet Corps. We had representatives from a few veterans associations and two midshipmen from FAMU NROTC to assist. Midshipman Day and Midshipman Santiago were a huge help and great example. Our key note speaker, Major General Michael Snodgrass did a fantastic job motivating our cadets with his talk on leadership. We’re so lucky to have this program here in Tallahassee for our youth leaders; if you have a middle or high school student who loves adventure we’d love to have them in the unit.
Any VSO interested in leading the March meeting, please send us an email.
Washington DC reads this email. Your VSO will benefit from the exposure. If you have never led a meeting before, now is the time to let eligible Veterans know you are here for them!
Fellow Commanders Coalition Members,
Please come to Carrabelle to participate in the 31st annual Camp Gordon Johnston [CGJ] Veterans Parade on March 14th between 10:30 and 11:15. CGJ making this request of our fellow Commanders Coalition Veteran Organizations, a few of which have participated for more than 20 years.
Your presence in our parade provides the public an opportunity to recognize and honor the active duty and veteran service men and women who have answered the nation’s call to protect the many freedoms we all enjoy today. Most people don’t feel patriotic until being reminded. This is a time to make veterans, citizens and young adults along the parade’s 10-block route feel the pride to be an American.
Located in a very rural community, this is Carrabelle’s only parade and the spectators aren’t as numerous in past years. Even more so, your attendance makes an impact on those spectators that attend.
To this end, displaying your organization’s entity and mission on a car, truck, truck with trailer, Golf Cart, walking, etc. enhances the CGJ Museum’s purpose to educate current and future generations of all veterans sacrifices and accomplishments. If your organization conducts outreach to educate veterans about support opportunities, information tables with literature can be set up at the center of town where the parade
concludes.
Three other additional reasons to make the trip are;
1) visiting the CGJ WWII Museum www.campgordonjohnston.com west of Carrabelle
2) visiting the ‘Three Servicemen South Memorial’ www.threeservicemenstatuesouth.org in Apalachicola.
And
3) riding through Leon, Wakulla and Franklin Counties.
www.floridabigbendscenicbyway.org
Grateful for all you do,
V/r,
David K Butler
Chairman, CGJ Veterans Parade Committee
850-274-3890
Greetings, Team
This Monday, 3pm please come to the Leon County Veterans Treatment Court Graduation Ceremony, February 23, a great opportunity to be inspired by the successes of Veterans concluding their Court obligations. This is an opportunity (Leon County Courthouse, Courtroom 2E) to observe/ maybe become a Veteran Mentor for the Vets working their way through the program and recovery.
A great team of Volunteers (26 including 6 attys) participated in our TVLC Legal Clinic Thursday 2/19/26, at American Legion Sauls Bridges Post 13. 16 Veterans and family walking in plus others by phone; Veterans volunteered with set up, intakes, etc. even though their court-ordered community service requirements have already been completed. (Khalid, Charles, Gregory, Leonard). The number of issues with the VA, however, 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?
TVLC’s truck and trailer team of volunteers Khalid Shafi, Charles Robinson, Leonard Bell, Sam Adams, David Martinez, Gregory Howard, and Eddie McMillian delivered the weekly food Wednesday to Vet Village and Homefront, among other locations (see photo).
Moving a dozen Veteran-related bills in the usual Bipartisan co-operation, the Legislative Session has just passed the half-way mark. See www.flsenate.gov for info on the now more than 50 Veteran-related bills proposed this year. Let us know if you want our “tracker” listing of the ongoing status of the bills, which we update daily. Please volunteer to help if you can.
Donations to TVLC from various events in recent months and ongoing supporters are helping Veterans successfully reinstate their Driver’s Licenses, sometimes after years of being unable to lawfully drive. The donations also provide gas for the weekly Food Delivery trips to Quincy for the various Veteran housing facilities around the region.
What else?
Thank you,
Dan Hendrickson, for the Tallahassee Veterans Legal Collaborative www.Tallahasseeveteranslegal.com
PO Box 11091, Tallahassee, Fl 32302, 850/ 570-1967
Legendary Actor Robert Duvall, US Army Veteran, Dead at 95
Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall starred in many movies during his legendary career, but his role as Captain Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove was my all-time favorite.
Duvall enlisted in the US Army in 1953 and served two years at Camp Gordon (now Fort Gordon) before being honorably discharged as a Private First Class.
During his spare time, Duvall, would sometimes visit Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across America to thank injured veterans for their service.
Here’s one of my favorite scenes from Lonesome Dove called ‘Tend Your Biscuits.’”
Hand Salute sir, you will be missed.
🚨Veteran Gun Ban—DEAD🚨
After THREE DECADES of lobbying by Gun Owners of America, the Veteran Gun Ban is officially DEAD.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to delete over 270,851 Veterans who were added to FBI’s background check system & unlawfully disarmed.
