Salute to all Colorado VFW Auxiliary Brothers and Sisters!
This calendar year is coming to a quick close with only Oct. Nov. and Dec. to close 2024 out. It is important to continue to fill our calendar with projects, programs and education opportunities to share with our veterans, families and communities. We all use calendars to schedule appts., make sure we get to meetings, and plan family/friends’ events. I am sharing with you a varied collection of opportunities to engage in Americanism for these next 3 months using USA/International/World days to remember and honor our veterans, active duty and their families and our communities. Best way to keep track of all things important is with calendars. Invite me to your Americanism programs, projects, events. I will attend as many as I am able to taking pictures, observing and collecting all the amazing stories and names of your brothers and sisters who are helping to bring our Americanism year of 2024 to a loud and proud close! Our National Americanism Ambassador, Katlyn, will receive all the collections I receive from your auxiliary to show her how proud and dedicated we in Colorado are to carry on the Americanism torch into 2025!
So here we go….
October – Agent Orange Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Small Business week 10/29-11/2, Every Friday is Red Shirt Day to remember our Deployed, Rosh Hashanah 10/2-10/4, Yom Kippur 10/11-10/12, 2nd Coffee with a Cop Day/International Day of Non-Violence, 4th National Truckers Appreciation Day, 5th National Do Something Nice, 6th German-American Day, 6th Afghanistan War Enduring Freedom Began 2001, 7th Afghanistan War Began, 8th National Heroes’ Day, 9th National Stop Bullying Day, 10th World Mental Health Day, 11th National Spread Joy Day, 13th US Navy Birthday, 14th National Dessert Day/Cinnamon Roll Day, 20th Women’s Army Corp. Disestablished [1978], 21st National Pets for Veterans Day, 24th United Nations Day, 26th National Day of the Deployed, 27th US Navy Day. I will be awarding a prize to an auxiliary member at COA in Grand Junction who can tell me the difference between US Navy Birthday and US Navy Day. Hope you are reading thru this article for a chance to win a prize!
November – National Veterans & Military Family Month, Warrior Care Month, National Family Caregivers Month, 4th National Day of Community Service, 5th National Love your Red Hair Day, 8th Election Day, 10th Marine Corps Birthday, 11th Veteran’s Day/Armistice Day/Remembrance Day, 21st Granada Campaign Ended [1983], 28th Thanksgiving Day. What is my favorite holiday in November after Veteran’s Day? To know this wins you a chance for a prize at COA in Grand Junction.
December – 1st Civil Air Patrol [USAF Auxiliary] Birthday, #Giving Tuesday, Tuesday after Thanksgiving, 5th Somalia Campaign Began [1992], 7th National Pearl Harbor Day, 8th War Declared on Japan [1941], 11th Germany & Italy Declared War on US[1941], 13th US National Guard Birthday, 15th Official End of War in Iraq[2011] Bill of Rights, 16th Battle of the Bulge, 18th National Wreaths Across America, 20th US Space Force Bday, 20th Panama Campaign began [1989], 25th Christmas Day, 25th-Jan. 2 Hanukkah Begins, 28th National Call a Friend Day, 31st Official End of WWII [1946]/Kosovo Campaign Ended [2013].
I am looking forward to seeing all of you at our next COA in Grand Junction. Thank you all for all your hard work, donation of time and talent. Now before I close – Be sure to report each month to receive the honors you are so deserving of at our State Convention. Any questions, concerns, needs I am a text, email or call away!
Happy Holidays!!
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Peters
Americanism Chairman