March 3, 2025 • 59 mins
Discover the heartwarming stories shared by veterans of American Legion Post 6 in Corinth, Mississippi. In this episode, we delve deep into the experience of Commander Nora Moreland, her fellow members Terry Phillips and Mike Hurst, and how their military backgrounds shape their current pursuits in community service. We explore the vital role that camaraderie plays in the post's activities, showcasing unique anecdotes like a young child's touching moment while singing the National Anthem, signifying the strong bond between service and patriotism.
We also discuss the community projects spearheaded by the post, emphasizing how important it is to engage with younger generations through education about flag etiquette and remembering the sacrifices made by service members. By sharing insights surrounding their experiences and community impact, we aim to inspire listeners to foster their connections with local veterans and emphasize the spirit of service that continues long after active duty is over. Join us in exploring how the Legion goes beyond being an organization for veterans by becoming a nurturing family dedicated to support, remembrance, and community outreach. Listen and feel inspired to get involved!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I'm your host, jerry Allhands,a veteran of the US Air Force
and Army and a Mississippi PassDepartment Commander of the
American Legion.
Each week, we visit an AmericanLegion post and visit with the
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As we travel the state, we'llvisit with other groups and
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's what they say Hard work, hard work.
I earn my pay.
Hard work, I grab my ruck andmove on out.
Hard work, I gotta go.
I march and shout Hard work,work, let's go baby.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Today we are in Corneth in the upper northeast
corner of the state ofMississippi and visit with US
Marine veteran Nora Moreland.
She's commander of Perry AJohns Post no 6.
All right, let's see Corinth,corinth.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Corinth, corinth.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
C-O-R, not Corinth.
I don't care what Corinth is.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Depends on what part of the state you're from.
Most people call it Corinth.
I don't care what Corinth means.
It depends on what part of thestate you're from.
Most people call it Corinthwith a C-A-R, but I think the
correct name is Corinth, corinth, corinth.
But nobody says that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I finally get Corinth , that's fine Corinth.
Greece, corinth, greece.
Somebody says say it likeyou're reading the Bible,
corinthians, I can do that.
They just got to get theIndians off of there.
We're at post six, northeastMississippi, as far northeast as
you can go with the AmericanLegion, I think you guys are.
(02:00):
What?
Probably are you 106 years old.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
This month, month, this, this year we uh, we
started in 1919.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Okay, 106 years it's.
Uh, my post is that way as well, so it's kind of kind of great
to look up.
See all 106.
I made 10 pictures up there onthe wall of the commanders.
So today we're going to startfrom my left to the right and if
you'll introduce yourself andplease give your name and title,
my name is Nora Moreland.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I am the commander of Post 6.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm Terry Phillips.
I'm first vice commander ofPost 6.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I'm Mike Hurst.
I'm the adjutant for Post 6.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And would somebody please let's start the day off
with a prayer, if you don't mind?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Dear Heavenly Father.
Thank you, lord, for the manyblessings you've given us.
Please, lord, forgive us of ourshort failings.
Lord, we pray that you watchover us and protect us.
Watch over the Legion, lord,lead, guide and direct us.
In Jesus Christ's name, we pray, amen.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, here we are in Corinthians, mississippi.
We're having a great time todayand enjoying the American
Legion family here, and we arewith the American Legion, with
Miss Nora, who's got a greatsmile on her face this morning.
And even though she was aMarine.
We won't hold that against her.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Am a Marine, once a Marine, always a Marine.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
See, she didn't let me correct myself the other time
but that is absolutely true.
Uh, I did.
Anybody got a box of crayons.
I have this feeling that we'regonna need red she likes the red
crayon, red crayon yes, okay weyell at paper he knows me, he
knows you well, yes, all right,uh, tell us a little bit about
(03:47):
yourself, nor what, uh, I knowthat you were.
You are a marine I am a marine.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I spent six years in the marine corps.
I currently have a staffsergeant son that is in the
marine corps and I don't knowhow long ago I joined this unit
seven, eight years maybe and Iam a.
Is it actually called?
I know it's a triple member.
(04:17):
I am a legionnaire, I am amember of the auxiliary and I am
a legion rider.
But are you a son of the?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
auxiliary and I am a Legion rider.
But are you a son of theAmerican Legion?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, no See, they didn't open their doors.
Oh well, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll tell you.
So, Nora, what did you do inthe Marine Corps?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, my MOS was 1171 .
It's water purification, Now.
What my actual time spent inwas usually behind a desk
somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, not now.
At the time I wasn't too happyabout it, but my last duty
station, I got fapped out to theauto hobby shop and I
absolutely loved it.
I absolutely loved it.
I've also figured out that Iwould have liked anything better
than water purification.
I told my XO that he couldn'tpromote me to an O4 and keep me
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in the MOS.
I was in, wow.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you really didn't like water purification?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, I wanted an electrician.
I wanted an electrician.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's an electrifying personality.
Yes, yes, see, I understand.
These aren't Terry.
What makes you eligible to bein the American Legion?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I'm a veteran.
I was in the Army for 30 years.
I started out as a cannoneer inthe field artillery, then I
became moved into the firedirection control center in
artillery and then ended updoing quartermaster and
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evaluating water purificationunits and and uh spent time
mobilizing reserve units thatwere uh over to the Gulf War.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You did a lot in four years.
Well 30 years, 30 years, 30years.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you, nora.
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike.
What makes you eligible for theAmerican Legion?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I'm a Navy veteran.
I served from 83 to 86 on boardthe USS Yosemite.
I was an engine man and Iworked in the A-game division.
I was responsible for repairsand maintenance of just about
everything engines, steamequipment, air conditioning,
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hydraulics.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He just said my favorite word, air conditioning.
Yeah, we didn't word airconditioning.
We didn't have much airconditioning in the Army, did we
?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
No no.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And nor water purification, those cold showers
.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I told you I spent most of my time behind a desk.
She would have enjoyed thewater purification if she had
done it the right way.
I went down and observed awater purification.
Uh, if she had done it theright way.
I went down and, uh, observed awater purification unit pump
seawater out of the gulf ofamerica and purified it into
drinking water.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Wow, that's, that's a job right there.
Yes boy I was.
Uh, I got to drink out of those, those large canvas bags that
were always warm, hot, nasty.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh no, let's move on to another, happier subject and
don't want to look inside one ofthose.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, no, Moving on.
Here we are today talking withthe leadership of Post 6 in this
great city.
That I will not say because Ican't say it Corinthians,
Mississippi, All right, but thepost is what we say 105, 106
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years in existence, tell me whatday that y'all meet, and time
and location and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Second Thursday of each month we have a potluck at
six Meeting starts.
Actually, we start at seven,but we're going to start
starting a little sooner.
What was the other question?
The address 511 South TateStreet, corinth, mississippi,
38834.
We're located behind theKroger's on Highway 72.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Kroger out there.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That way.
That way, for those of us whoare on the radio, she's pointing
to my left, your right.
The Kroger is right over there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Pointing towards Highway 72.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Alright, and again, that's the second Thursday.
At what time again?
6 o'clock, all right.
And again, that's the secondThursday.
Yes, at what time again?
Six o'clock, six o'clock, allright.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And the zip code once again 38834.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And if you're anywhere outside of Corinthians,
mississippi, that's y'all's newname, right, all right, it is a
wonderful community, a nicetown to come visit and do some
shopping in, as my wife has toldme several times in my credit
card statement proofs.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Then, see, you should know where SoCo is, because
that's all.
The shopping is in SoCo Corinth.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Whenever I'm here, I'm here, she's out there.
Maybe somebody needs todescribe SoCo.
Is that for south, southcorinth, corinth is?
That what it?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
means yes, all right.
So south side of the railroadtrack, the main railroad tracks
that came through, that createdcorinth as the crossroad city,
the south side of it.
Those businesses have beenrenovated and they now call it
SoCo, okay makes sense and youjust call it the crossroads city
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.
When it was originally founded,it was crossroads, because the
railroad tracks crossed, whichis the reason for the history of
Corinth being part of the CivilWar because both sides wanted
the intersection of thecrossroads.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Nice to know.
I did not know that See.
I'm getting an education today.
You like red crayons on yellowpaper?
We got that part.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, that's important, that's important, it
is.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Does red stand out on ?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
yellow.
It does Helps with thatdysgraphia stuff, dyslexia,
dyslexia yes, dysgraphia yes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
This is all staying in, you know.
Oh, mercy Nora.
Let's talk a little bit aboutthe post here.
Tell me again I'll meet on thesecond Thursday at 6 o'clock,
and typically what happens at apost-meeting.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We open a meeting with prayer and our pledge and
our POW MIA.
That is one of the things thatmeans a lot to me, because some
of us gave little and some of usgave a whole lot, and if we
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can't remember those that gave awhole lot, then those that gave
a little yeah we're just justpart of part of it what does
being in the american legionmean to you?
it's an honor.
It really is an honor.
My grandpa is.
He passed in 01, but my grandpais a World War II Navy veteran
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and he's a lot of the reason whyI joined the Marine Corps.
But he's also a reason that Ihave a lot of pride in what
we're doing.
Reason that I have a lot ofpride in what we're doing,
because what we're my opinion,what the American Legion is for
is to reach out to our veteransthose active duty and after
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service and to be there becausecamaraderie ship is a real thing
.
There's times when only someonethat's been where we've been
understands what we're goingthrough.
And sometimes our family wantsto be there for us and that's
important.
But I don't think our familysometimes understands exactly
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everything that a veteran goesthrough I have to agree with you
100 on that one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Your your grandfather world war ii vet.
You said Navy.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Pacific or East.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Pacific.
He had a ship USS Chevalier, Ithink it's pronounced right was
sunk.
He spent three days in theocean before they rescued him,
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so I'm really very thankful thatthey rescued him.
Um, yeah, in the pacific.
He spent time in the islandstrying to recover from that and
some things that he took to thegrave with him the skin
condition for being in that oilywater for those days, and I'm
sure a lot of things that herefused to he never spoke of.
I mean, I only remember onestory that I'll not share here,
but only one story that he everreally told about being on the
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ship, other than I will say hespent his 18th birth.
Was it 18?
He had to be 18 to get inwithout a parental signature.
He was on the ship in thePacific Ocean on his 18th
birthday because he told hiscommanding officer hey, it's my
birthday today.
He's really, how old are you?
18.
?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh, my God man, terry , what's it mean to you to be in
the American Legion?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I think the service that the Legion does for
veterans and for the communityand veterans' families, that's
probably the biggest does forveterans and for the community
and veterans' families.
That's probably the biggestthing for me.
When I was very young I'vegiven talks before to different
groups Boy Scouts and things andI told them that my service
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started when I was a Cub Scoutand I feel like that my service
needs to continue on for therest of my life and I found a
way to do it here with theAmerican Legion.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You have a family member who was in the service
before.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
My father was in the Army and I have uncles that were
in the Army and an uncle thatwas in World War II in the Navy.
But World War.
Ii, korea and Vietnam.
I have uncles in all of those.
Any story that you like, juststands out for you.
(14:38):
My uncle that was in World WarII in the Navy when I was in
high school and decided to join,uh, he gave me.
He said I'll give you a pieceof advice.
When you go to basic training,when they're yelling at you and
talking about how stupid you are, he said, just think they're
talking to the person next toyou and just do your job.
(15:00):
And uh, that stuck with methrough basic training and ever
since you didn't get the.
Don't volunteer for anythingwell, I, yeah, I got that one
from my father like that one.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I think we all got that one.
Yeah, don't volunteer, getvoluntold.
Yeah, mike, what does uh beingin the american legion mean to
you?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
it's the uh, helping veterans and veterans' families
and trying to get the onesthat's in the service now that's
young and just getting outexplaining to them that we're
always here for them, that onceyou're a veteran, you're always
a veteran and no matter whatbranch you served in or what era
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you served in, everybody knowswhat it's like to be in the
military.
It's basically the same, sowe've always got something to
talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Anybody in your past that was in your family.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I had an uncle.
I think that was in World WarII, but I don't know a lot about
it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, I want to thank you all for your service and
for your family's service.
I'm one of those people that Idon't know who my family served
before me.
I'm not fortunate to have thosestories passed on, but the
history of our families in thepast, you know, leads, I think,
to why a lot of us joined themilitary.
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We didn't have to join.
None of us were drafted, thankyou, because I would have got
stuck over there.
Of us were drafted, thank youBecause I would have got stuck
over there.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
When you're 6'4" it is.
You're that strong, Put you outthere and you catch those
things that they're throwing atyou.
I want to catch those things.
Anyway, tell me a little bitabout this post.
Tell me the history of Post 6.
Anybody know the history here?
(16:50):
Is it named after anyone?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We have a copy of our charter on the wall from 1919.
From 1919.
It's named after Perry Johns,who was a World War I veteran
from Corinth or from AlcornCounty that died during World
War I and is buried, I believe,in France.
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And that's who.
When the post was, that was in1917, and so when the post was,
that was in 1917.
And so when the post wascreated in 1919, him being the
first person from Corinth thatdied in the war, that's who the
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post was named after.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Are you aware if he still has family?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
in the area?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Are they involved with the posting in any way?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
No, I don't believe that there's any in the area.
Most of the descendants thatI'm aware of are in Texas and we
have reached out to them and totrustees of their estates.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Tell me what's the Nora, what's the one thing that
stands out for you in this pastyear that the post has done?
That's just really somethingyou're proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm really proud of our wreaths across America.
Yeah, it's that.
And I'm also proud of our flagetiquette teachings the flag
etiquette teaching.
We go to the county and thecity schools for the elementary
first through fourth and weteach them about our flag.
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We teach them about folding theflag.
We teach them the proper way todo the Pledge of Allegiance.
This past one we just recentlyhad I'm truly excited about a
young second-grade child thatasked if she could sing and she
got up and she sang our NationalAnthem for us and she was just
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absolutely amazing.
I mean, she brought goosebumps.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
How old was she?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Second grade so seven years old, wow, and she will be
here on our Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Do you remember her name?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Mary Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Would have to be a Mary.
Elizabeth would have to be aMary.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Elizabeth.
And she did that with no musicand no writing in front of her.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No words, incredible, she just got up and Her hand
over her heart and sang.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Do you find a lot of cooperation in the school system
when you go to do these.
No pushback.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Not really.
Yeah, Not that I have had yet,With me still working.
I have not retired yet, so withme still working, it's hard for
me to get us in all.
Was there four?
Biggersville, Costeux Centraland the city school.
There's four schools in ourdistrict and it's hard for me to
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get in each and every one ofthem, so I know that two of them
three of them our countyschools are very welcoming.
I haven't yet tried to get intothe city school, as often.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do you find that the children?
Are they receptive?
Are they engaged?
I mean, obviously MaryElizabeth is engaged.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
She's very engaged, I'd have to say yes.
Yeah, I'll definitely say yes,because last year we went to
Biggersville and done the POWMIA training with the fourth and
fifth graders and I wasextremely impressed with we had
a question and answer time and Ipray the next time we go and I
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told Terry he definitely needsto be there.
I need somebody there with moreexperience to answer the
questions that these childrenwere coming up with, because I
was just like mouth open andeyes big some of the questions.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
so yes, and what grade was it?
4th and 5th?
9, 10 year olds you know I'vebeen out of school how many
decades now?
Let's not talk about that,because I think you're older
than me, Nine ten-year-olds.
You know I've been out ofschool how many decades now?
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, let's not talk about that, because I think
you're older than me Pledge ofAllegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is this still done?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It is.
Sometimes I question howaccurate they are when they tell
me it is, but yes, it is Allfour grades that we were with
the other day.
They all knew their Pledge ofAllegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Do they actually still do it in the classroom?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I've been told yes yeah, that the last group that
we did at that school.
We asked specifically if theydo the american legion or the
pledge of allegiance eachmorning and they said yes, wow
and what's your, what's yourexperience with it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean, when you go there, do you feel welcomed?
Are you comfortable as aveteran and as a?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes, we actually had.
I don't remember what grade itwas.
We actually had one of theteachers.
When we were ready to hand themback over to her, she told them
to stop wait, I have somethingI want to say.
And she told her children Iwill give you a challenge today
that when you are out and aboutin town, you will see veterans,
because there's telltale signsthey're, they're wearing their
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hat or they're wearing what wepan what?
what I want to call garb.
You know we're wearing our, ourmilitary garb.
I challenge you to go up tothat person and thank them for
their service.
And then she made each one ofthem walk by.
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They walked single file lineout and they shook each.
Was there three legionnairesthere that day.
They had the children shake ourhand and tell us thank you for
your service.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
How do you feel about that when somebody approaches
you on the street?
You don't know them and theyjust come up and thank you for
your service?
How do you feel about that whensomebody approaches you on the
street?
You don't know them and theyjust come in.
Thank you for your service.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I think my favorite response that someone another
Navy veteran told me was to lookthem straight in the eye and
tell them thank you for beingthe type of citizen that I was
was willing to fight for.
I think that's my favorite one.
Now, normally my response is Iget a little tongue-tied and I'm
able to say thank you because Ididn't do it for the show, I'd
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done it to honor my grandpa.
I wanted to be like my grandpaand I wanted to defend this
country and to kind of piggybackoff what I think Terry said
it's part of the reason why Iwant to be here in this American
Legion is my oath did not endin 97 when I got out of active
duty Marine Corps and I stilllove this country.
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She may not be perfect, butshe's my country and I'm not
willing to run from this country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I don't think any of us are, terry.
Same question Somebody comes upto you on the street and says
thank you for your service.
They want to shake your handand it's normally.
For me, in the past it's beenyounger people, but it's now and
I've got to be careful to saythis because 40s are young how
does that affect you?
When they come up and say that,what do you think?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
when I first, when the first time that it had
happened with me, I didn'treally know what to think, uh,
but since then I have becomereal comfortable with it and it
gives me a lot of pride.
But, as Nora said, I alwaystell them thank you and a lot of
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times it's another veteran andI really didn't know how to take
that.
The first time another veterandid said thank you, because
they're a veteran also.
But we thank each other, andjust recently I was in a store
shopping and I had on a cap thathad US Army on it, and an older
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lady came up to me and she saidthat her father was in the
military and that she wanted to.
She told me thank you, but shesaid she wanted to do something
else that her father had toldher to do and she saluted.
And there we were, in themiddle of a store, shopping and
saluting each other, and thenshe wanted to know if she did it
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correctly, did she?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
She did, she did.
Her daddy would have been proud.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yes, that's what she said, and I told her that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Mike, same question.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I feel really good about it, but at first a lot of
times I feel like I don't reallydeserve that recognition,
because some of them have mademore of a sacrifice than me.
But I normally do like theother two and just thank them
and uh move on yeah, and kind ofa weird feeling the first time
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yeah
Speaker 1 (25:55):
and when it happens to me.
Still it's sometimes it's it'suh disturbing I think.
You know it's like kind ofembarrassing a little bit, but I
mean I appreciate it and and Icome back with it and it gives
me an opportunity to talk withsomeone.
But just recently I'm in astore and I'm walking down the
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aisle and I'm looking at a guythat I would be calling sir and
he beats me to the punch andthen he sees my 82nd Airborne
cab and says thank you for yourservice.
And I'm still stuck on beingcalled sir by a guy I wanted to
call sir first.
Then I looked in the mirror,saw all the white hair.
So yeah, thank you.
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You know, I think it means a lotwhen the public does that,
because your father a Vietnamvet.
Those guys came back, thoseindividuals, men and women, came
back and were, in my opinion,very much abused.
And I am afraid now with theIraq-Afghanistan war and I told
my wife this when the warstarted I said as long as the
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movies that are being made arepositive, you will see good
support from the civilianpopulation.
But the first negative movie,you're going to hear some
negative things and to me it hasspiraled downward.
Let's get it going, let's go.
Let's pause for a moment tohear from some of the people who
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Crisis is completely self-defined.
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Speaker 8 (28:19):
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And now back to this episode ofthe Veterans Sound Off podcast.
Let's let's talk a little bitabout Boys State.
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We got that coming up here.
What are y'all doing as a postfor Boys State?
What support do you have for it, or what do you know about Boys
State?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
We sponsor Boys State every year.
I don't remember how many wehad last year.
Did we have any?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yes, we had some, I want to say five, seven.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I don't remember it being that many.
But I know that we had somethat came down and helped with
some events that we did.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's one of the requirements for me to sign your
Boy State papers is you shouldcome help us volunteer some time
with us.
If we're doing yard work orsome mulch, if we're doing an
activity, sweep the floor, somesort of volunteer, not only to
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get me to sign for your papersbut it also goes towards their.
They have volunteer hours theyneed for school, so they get my
signature for their volunteertime plus they get my my
signature for their boy stateyou're the first one I've heard
say that, and that is great.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It is community help?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Sure, that's what the American Legion is about.
That's what Boy State is about.
Is community help, communityservice maybe a better word
community service and learningabout our government, learning
how they can be a productivemember in our society.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm going to take that back to my own post.
If you want to go to Boys State, Girls State, you need to get
involved in post events.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
One of my favorites was when we had a boy.
The last time we'd done yardwork, he and I had went out to
our tank and was cleaning,pulling weeds, and then we were
going to put the mulch down andhe looks at me.
He says what is the AmericanLegion anyway?
I was like really, and Istarted asking him some
questions.
So it was a good opportunity tohave a conversation with him
about what it is we do insideour community also.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I like that, and you educated him.
Did he have a family member whowas eligible?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
He wasn't sure Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, we'll get him when he enlists.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
We will.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
All right, there's a good thing.
What do you do in the public?
How do you share with thepublic what the American Legion
is?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Well, one of the things that got me is the.
I started my military servicewith the National Guard and the
time that I was in the NationalGuard, no one ever mentioned the
American Legion to me and Ididn't know much about the
American Legion or that I waseligible to be a member of the
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American Legion.
So one of the things that I didafter becoming a Legionnaire
was contact the local NationalGuard unit and ask if I could
come speak to their members andtalk to them about the American
Legion and the things that we do.
And when I talked about theAmericanism, one of them asked
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what do you do to promote that?
And we I talked about the flagetiquette classes that we've
done at the elementary schoolsand with the junior auxiliary to
try to get them to understandthat we can do a lot for the
community as Legionnaires.
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And when I've been talking withsome of my other veterans that I
know that are not members, Italk with them about some of the
things that we do that they maynot be aware of that it's the,
the legion, that is involved inthat, like putting the flags on
the graves at the nationalcemetery or putting out the
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wreaths across America at theNational Cemetery or selling
wreaths for them to take and puton their relatives' graves that
are veterans in othercemeteries, and just trying to
make them aware of the thingsthat the Legion can do for the
community and for veterans andtheir families.
And Nora and I have talkedabout reaching out to other
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members of the Legion andmembers of the community and
asked them what they would liketo see the Legion do for
veterans and their families andfor the community.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And you're getting responses back from that
question.
Well, we're just starting now.
Just starting.
How was the reception from theguard?
I mean, you haven't been aformer guardsman yourself.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I was welcomed in as a member, that I had been in
that unit, and so I started outtelling them that so that they
would look at me maybe a littledifferent, that I wasn't just
some outsider coming in to talkwith them about some
organization.
I told them that I was a memberof that unit and I started my
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service, my career, in that unitand that no one had ever talked
with me about the AmericanLegion.
And I wanted to talk with themabout it and let them know that
they were all eligible to becomemembers of the American Legion,
and a lot of them in that unitdid not live here locally and so
I talked with them about theAmerican Legion being throughout
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the state and you know othercommunities, and for them to
reach out to their local postand find out when they meet and
find out the things that they'redoing and to go meet with them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Did you get anybody to take a bite, anybody?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't know if they joined, but there were some
people there that had aninterest, and the two that spoke
with me personally did not livein Alcorn County, so they were
going to reach out to the postin their area right, mike,
anything for you uh, one problemwe have with the recruitment
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with the younger generation isthey.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
They just don't.
A lot of them seem don't seemto be interested.
And I understand why becausethey're young and maybe just got
out and they've got young kidsand they've got to work and
stuff.
But I think we've got to domore to try to get the younger
generation in this organization,because we're getting old.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Speak for yourself because we're getting old.
Speak for yourself On thatsubject here.
How long, nora, was it beforeyou joined the Marine?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Corps.
I got out of the Marine Corpsin 1997, and I think I've been a
member.
It's been less than 10 yearsthat I've been a member.
I will say you made me think ofsomething that in 2007, my
husband my husband is a combatcorpsman who got out of the Navy
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and he was in the nationalguard.
Well, in 2007, the unit he waswith in the national guard went
to Iraq.
So now I am what I'd like tocall a married single parent.
I'm married.
He's in Iraq.
I'm here with two kids.
Yeah, that's a really weirdplace to be.
If I had known about this postin 2007, this would have been a
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place I should have been then,because his unit wasn't here in
Corinth, so, his unit being inanother part of the state of
Mississippi, I wasn't closeenough to be part of the family
readiness program.
Nobody there reached out to me.
People here didn't know aboutme, but I needed.
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I needed help.
I needed help, and so I shouldhave been here in 2007.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But I didn't know.
When you were on active duty,were you aware of the American
Legion?
Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, well, yes and no.
My first Knowledge of AmericanLegion was in Michigan, where my
grandparents' parents were.
I was born.
American Legion was very activethere, but I grew up thinking
it was family.
Everybody there was family.
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I've told my auxiliary thatsome of my fondest memories of
being at the American Legion wasthe women, the food.
Fondest memories of being atthe American Legion was the
women, the food, I mean, it'sstill food at this age but, you
know, at less than 10, food wasextremely important the food,
the family connection, the beingconcerned.
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If one of us kids got hurt, itwas the auxiliary members that
were coming over to check on us.
If our parents, if our mothersdidn't see us first.
So I may have gotten a littlebit off the question there.
But my first knowledge was as achild because the Legion in my
town was very active forweddings and family
get-togethers and the poppiesand the flags and even with that
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background, with the flags andand even with that, that
background, with the AmericanLegion, you still, I still,
didn't put it together with myMarine Corps brain that I, I
qualified, that this is where Ineeded to be.
Wow, I think.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Big step.
Yeah, Terry, for yourself.
Were you aware of the AmericanLegion when you were in the
military?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I was aware of it, but I wasn't aware that I would
fit in there or that I waseligible to be a member.
I guess the first person thattalked to me about it was an
uncle that was a Vietnam veteran, that was a member.
But then I'm a motorcycle riderand I had a friend that I went
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to basic training with, that westill ride motorcycles together
and one day he said why don'tyou go on a ride with us?
And I said who's us?
And he said, well, it's a groupfrom the American Legion, the
American Legion Riders.
And I went on a ride with themand when we stopped to eat lunch
Mike said that he was theadjutant and he said are you a
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veteran?
And I said yeah, and he saidwhy don't you join?
I've been here ever since.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
And how long was it from the time you got out of the
service until you joined?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I think 13 years.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Okay, all right, mike , were you aware.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
I was aware of it.
I wasn't quite sure what it wasall about.
Growing up, I thought I knewwhat the American Legion, where
the American Legion building,was at, but I thought it was
just where they had wrestling.
I remember those days.
I didn't join the Legion forabout 21 years after I got out
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and the Legion riders drew meinto that, then it got me
involved.
Okay, and how long have youbeen in now Since?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
2007.
Okay, so the two of you came inbecause of the riders.
Nora, why did you join theLegion?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I don't even know.
I've tried to think of why.
I tried to remember when I camein.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
For me in the service in the Air Force and the Army.
I don't ever remember anybodyfrom the American Legion coming
on post or base to talk aboutthe American Legion.
I was aware of American Legionpost VFW post, outside of the
gates, knowing where it was.
But, like you, am I eligible?
Speaker 7 (41:16):
You know, I mean, I'm not a Vietnam vet, not a Korean
War vet.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You know, I think Legion-wise we fell our fellow
veterans by not going on thebases and letting the active
duty troops, the Guard andReserve troops, know that
they're eligible and actuallystaying involved in that
situation.
I don't know if you have basesanywhere near this side of the
state for you or not, but Iencourage you to make that one
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of your recruitment efforts.
Again, family efforts whenthose guys went off to Iraq and
Kuwait and all that the firsttime you know, we had guard
units all around us and tried toget the families involved and I
feel like maybe we didn't do abetter job of keeping the
families involved.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I think a lot if we involve the family.
That's one of the reasons whypost-six is we stress this is
family, because I think a lot oftimes I'm gonna speak for
myself, but I'm gonna use theword veterans with an s I think
we, as veterans, can be veryhard-headed and we don't need
that.
Yeah, I'm fine, but if we canreach the families and the
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families see what's going on, wetend to follow.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
On the subject of family, what are you doing here
at this post that would involvea family?
Why would a 30-year-old father,mother, couple of kids want to
come to this post?
Is there something for thechildren?
Is there something for theparents?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
We are starting.
Is there something for thechildren?
Is there something for theparents?
We are starting.
We do have the junior auxiliary, which you have to be connected
to a veteran under the age of18.
Then we have our auxiliaryunits that are for family
members, spouses and two degreeseither way for the auxiliaries.
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And then we have our sons.
For the young men, we have ourriders and our riders are active
.
Stumbling over is an r, areactive in rides and doing stuff
inside the community what do youdo?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Do you have family days?
Do you have events that wereinvolved?
I mean, you've got a greatposter, beautiful poster,
beautiful grounds and everythinglike that.
Is there a park nearby that wecan have children to be involved
?
Is there I'm looking atinvolvement for kids?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
We have a city park.
If you're talking about like apark, we have a city park but we
don't really do a lot there.
I know that Corinth is talkingabout trying to take our field I
say our field, the county'sfield over here and creating a
flower garden, a nature trail,and I'm really hoping that if
that does come over here, thatwe can try to utilize that as to
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draw families in, and whodoesn't like to see flowers and
butterflies?
Speaker 4 (44:13):
some of the events that we have here are designed
around family involvement.
You know, like the the livinghistory veterans history day
that we had, we wanted families,people of all ages, to
participate and be a part ofthat.
I know for me personally, whenwe have different service events
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that we're doing, I've tried toget my grandsons involved and
get them to understand what thelegion is doing and understand
about service to their communityand and hopefully get them to
also get some of their friendsto participate in those events
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and having much success withthat with my grandsons.
I have uh, they've uh gottenwhere the race across america
they've been participating for afew years now started out with
the Boy Scouts before I got inthe Legion, but they participate
in that and putting out theflags and so some of those type
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of events getting them to comeand participate, and I think
they're enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
How old are they?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
13 and 15.
Boy do.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I feel old Trying to get them to think about.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
You know like we've done with the junior auxiliary.
You know that they can join thesons now and participate in
events.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
We have our breakfasts also.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Yeah, I get to see that on your Facebook page quite
often, often, you know.
It's just not fair that I'mthree hours away and they're
talking about bacon and biscuitsand eggs and and carlene's
cooking yeah, that's the otherthing.
Carlene is cooking.
Carlene parker, she will notcome be on the microphone, but
we're going to give her a hardtime.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
I was going.
We had a function here where Ithink we were selling spaghetti.
We were selling something and Iwas going around downtown in
SoCo and advertising and takingpre-orders for the spaghetti
dinner.
Taking pre-orders for thespaghetti dinner, and every time
I walked in and said my nameI'm nora moreland, I'm with the
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american legion, post six, carly.
We're cooking.
And the first thing that wouldcome up is is carlene starting
to cook him?
When are you starting to dothat breakfast?
Is carlene cooking?
So carlene's cooking is anaction word together that's the
best recruitment tool you got.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Yes, it brings lots of hearts do you know that she
can blush?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yes, yes, I do After Thursday night's meeting.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
What happened on Thursday night's meeting.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
This last one.
I presented her with someflowers for appreciation for the
things that she does for ourLegion and I was just fine until
she started to choke up.
Then we had to turn away fromone another because she went a
little pink in the face and Ineeded to still be able to speak
.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Oh, great job.
Tell me what's coming up in thefuture.
The post here.
What's coming up in the nextsix months?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Pancakes and poppies and pancakes.
And we're having.
Have we come up with a name forthe ride?
And we're having.
Have we come up with a name forthe ride?
We're having our.
Legion riders are having a ridethat same day with the poppies
and pancakes.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
What is poppies and pancakes.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Poppies and pancakes.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Because I'm hungry and you're just.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, so am I, and I think I'm hoping they didn't eat
everything out there.
Poppies and pancakes.
The poppies are a veryimportant um item in our
american legion and in ourauxiliary.
They are a token of remembrancefor those that have fought
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before us.
I think it was world war ii,world War I with Flanders Fields
and we are going to have apoppy coloring contest for the
high school students.
I had to stop and think becausewe gave the coloring sheets out
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to the first and fourth graders, trying to get them involved,
and we'll go back and get thosepictures to have a contest with
them also.
But the poppies and pancakes isfor the high school students.
We will have a contest andthere will be pictures and a
award for that and then afterthat we will have a legion
riders ride and I believe themoney that we're gathering for
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that one is going to Ronnie'sretreat.
We're trying to gather money toget power for Ronnie's retreat.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Okay, poppy's and Piggy's for Ronnie's retreat.
What day is this 19 April?
For you civilians, that's April19th.
What time?
Speaker 3 (49:03):
9 to 11.
Or should I have said zero,nine to 11?
I had someone just comment onthat to me recently.
I still write 19 April 2025.
It's the only way I know towrite it.
If you make me write it theother way, I have to stop and
think yeah, and somebody askedme just some random person, you
military, I'm like why?
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Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Why.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
And they pointed out the difference in that.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, Do the same thing with your number seven.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
You put the I do sometimes, but I hear my
daughter telling me I'm beingextra, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Tell me about Ronnie's.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Ronnie's retreat, that is.
Oh, his last name just went outof my head McNutt.
Joey McNutt, his brother, is aperson that has committed
suicide.
He's a veteran that committedsuicide and Ronnie and his
family.
The way that they are trying toreach out to the community is
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they have Ronnie's retreat.
It is a shelter that they aretrying to build for homeless
veterans to get them servicesand needs that they need and to
help get them back on their feet.
It's a helping hand up to getthem back on their feet and to
be able to provide forthemselves or at least be the
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best person that they can be.
And from what I understand fromthe meeting the other night,
they have gotten to the pointwhere I think they have three
homes set up.
They need power and I'mcurrently going to be that's
what I'm doing.
After this program, this speechin here, I'm going home to learn
more about.
There is a grant that'savailable, I think, through the
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auxiliary that they can getmoney to go towards.
Is it through the homeless, theveteran service projects and
the Legion has to?
Is it the Legion has to or theauxiliary has to come up with
the 20%?
The auxiliary has to come upwith 20% of this grant money for
us to be eligible to get thegrant and we are currently
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working on our 20%.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Is there a cutoff date to raise this money?
Speaker 3 (51:20):
No no.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
You mentioned that this is being done because this
veteran committed suicide.
And at this point we need totalk about 988 and how important
that number is.
And for those who aren't awareof it, 988 is a telephone number
that was set up to help anyonewho is having a moment of mental
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need.
If you will, if you're feelinglike not only the person who
might want to hurt themselves orcommit suicide, but just
somebody that needs a moment todecompress or talk about
whatever, you know you have anemergency, you call 911.
If you're having a mental oremotional moment, call 988.
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If you're a veteran, you pressone and you get hooked up with
somebody who's a veteran or istrained to talk with us.
You know, but in at any time,anybody can have a dark moment.
You can have a situation happenthat just brings that dark cloud
over you and you have thoughtsthat maybe are not healthy
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thoughts and I can say this froma personal point of view where
you may not have PTS, you maynot have Agent Orange in your
life, you just may be having amoment.
Call that 988 number and takeadvantage of it.
It's free, nobody's going togive you a hard time, somebody
will get your information andonce you have completed your
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phone call, I can promise yousomebody's going to be calling
you back to follow up on you.
Anything else coming up that wewant to talk about, anything
going on in the post.
Speaker 5 (53:03):
Well, we'll have our Memorial Day in May, which we'll
put out flags.
We invite the Boy Scouts toraise and lower the flag at the
National Cemetery.
Immediately after that we cometo the post and we have a flag
retirement ceremony.
The sons lead that and weinvite anybody that wants to
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come come to that too and weinvite anybody that wants to
come come to that too.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
that is one that I would really like to push the
invitation to.
Also is our flag retirementceremonies, flag education it's
important I I can't beat thatdrum enough without sounding
like a broken record but ourflag education and flag
retirement is important.
There needs to be the knowledge.
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There's a difference betweengoing out on the street and
burning my flag and a differencein retiring my flag.
There's a whole, completedifferent honor One's honor and
one's very disrespectful andit's just really very important
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to me because I don't want tofind out what Nora will do the
day that I see someone burningmy flag.
I seriously don't think it willbe just a simple about face and
walk off.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
Not even close.
No, I can see Nora becoming.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Very irate Very irate .
Speaker 1 (54:33):
All of us?
I think all of us would yes.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
We've seen Nora irate and it's not pretty, Nora, when
is the flag retirement ceremony.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Do you have a date set for that?
Speaker 3 (54:42):
It will be on Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
Okay, where at?
Speaker 3 (54:46):
Saturday.
Speaker 5 (54:47):
The Saturday before Memorial Day.
Okay, where at Saturday, theSaturday before Memorial Day
would be at the NationalCemetery in Corinth?
Speaker 1 (54:53):
So will they meet up there or come to the post first
and then y'all go to thecemetery?
Speaker 5 (54:58):
We'll all meet at the cemetery.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
And then we'll come back to the post for the flag
retirement ceremony.
It'll be done here.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Okay, all right.
Talking about flag retirements,you got a flag that needs to be
retired.
How do you know it needs to beretired?
Speaker 3 (55:17):
When it's faded, extremely faded, when it's
tattered, torn.
We actually have some postcardsMe, being I work at the post
office.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Oh, you're the one.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yeah, I being I work at the post office.
Oh, you're the one.
Yeah, I'm the one.
I'm the one.
I just stick it in your mailbox.
I have nothing to do with thepostage stuff, but we have some
postcards that will informpeople that your flag needs to
be retired.
And the reason I bring up thepost office thing is I had a
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person, a specific address, onmy route, that their flag was
not a flag anymore, it was juststrips of material.
It should never get to thepoint that it is just strips of
material.
It should not be hanging upsidedown because the rings on it
have come apart.
So when it gets tattered, whenit gets faded, take it down with
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some respect, bring it to yourlocal American Legion, your
local VFW, your Boy Scout troops, any one of those three places
that I know of In Corinth.
You can bring it to the postoffice because they will give it
to me.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
All right, Do you have my post?
We have a what's the properword here?
We have a mailbox that has beendiscontinued, used.
We have it painted red, whiteand blue and we have a sign on
it.
Do you all have one of thosehere to?
Speaker 3 (56:44):
drop off yes.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
Yes, and it gets full pretty regularly.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
We do have Seth Ricketts' ride every year.
Do you know what date that isthis year, may 10th?
Speaker 7 (56:56):
May 10th.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
What is Seth Ricketts ?
Speaker 3 (56:57):
Seth Ricketts was an Army infantryman.
I think I may be wrong on that,but he was killed in Iraq and
we have had this is our 12th.
I think it's like our 12thannual ride and they gather
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money, funds, and it goes to theFisher House and we are now we
have one in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Terry, if you don't mind, would you?
Speaker 4 (57:30):
please close us with a prayer.
Yes, heavenly father, thank you, lord, for the many blessings
you've given us.
We pray that you watch over usas we go about our business.
Lord, protect us as we travelhome.
In jesus christ name, we pray,amen, amen thank you, terry.
Speaker 1 (57:45):
And that was our visit with the perry a john's
american legion, post six.
Next week we return to post sixand visit with cindy rhodes,
president of american legionauxiliary unit six, along with
pan mcgarver, the treasurer andchaplain, tina buck.
That's next monday here on theveteran sound off podcast.
On behalf of all hands mediallc, I want to say thank you to
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Speaker 2 (59:10):
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Hard work, I grab my ruck andmove on out.
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I march and shout Hard work,work, let's go baby.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Today we are in Corneth in the upper northeast
corner of the state ofMississippi and visit with US
Marine veteran Nora Moreland.
She's commander of Perry AJohns Post no 6.
All right, let's see Corinth,corinth.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Corinth, corinth.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
C-O-R, not Corinth.
I don't care what Corinth is.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Depends on what part of the state you're from.
Most people call it Corinth.
I don't care what Corinth means.
It depends on what part of thestate you're from.
Most people call it Corinthwith a C-A-R, but I think the
correct name is Corinth, corinth, corinth.
But nobody says that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I finally get Corinth , that's fine Corinth.
Greece, corinth, greece.
Somebody says say it likeyou're reading the Bible,
corinthians, I can do that.
They just got to get theIndians off of there.
We're at post six, northeastMississippi, as far northeast as
you can go with the AmericanLegion, I think you guys are.
(02:00):
What?
Probably are you 106 years old.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
This month, month, this, this year we uh, we
started in 1919.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Okay, 106 years it's.
Uh, my post is that way as well, so it's kind of kind of great
to look up.
See all 106.
I made 10 pictures up there onthe wall of the commanders.
So today we're going to startfrom my left to the right and if
you'll introduce yourself andplease give your name and title,
my name is Nora Moreland.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I am the commander of Post 6.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm Terry Phillips.
I'm first vice commander ofPost 6.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I'm Mike Hurst.
I'm the adjutant for Post 6.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And would somebody please let's start the day off
with a prayer, if you don't mind?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Dear Heavenly Father.
Thank you, lord, for the manyblessings you've given us.
Please, lord, forgive us of ourshort failings.
Lord, we pray that you watchover us and protect us.
Watch over the Legion, lord,lead, guide and direct us.
In Jesus Christ's name, we pray, amen.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, here we are in Corinthians, mississippi.
We're having a great time todayand enjoying the American
Legion family here, and we arewith the American Legion, with
Miss Nora, who's got a greatsmile on her face this morning.
And even though she was aMarine.
We won't hold that against her.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Am a Marine, once a Marine, always a Marine.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
See, she didn't let me correct myself the other time
but that is absolutely true.
Uh, I did.
Anybody got a box of crayons.
I have this feeling that we'regonna need red she likes the red
crayon, red crayon yes, okay weyell at paper he knows me, he
knows you well, yes, all right,uh, tell us a little bit about
(03:47):
yourself, nor what, uh, I knowthat you were.
You are a marine I am a marine.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I spent six years in the marine corps.
I currently have a staffsergeant son that is in the
marine corps and I don't knowhow long ago I joined this unit
seven, eight years maybe and Iam a.
Is it actually called?
I know it's a triple member.
(04:17):
I am a legionnaire, I am amember of the auxiliary and I am
a legion rider.
But are you a son of the?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
auxiliary and I am a Legion rider.
But are you a son of theAmerican Legion?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, no See, they didn't open their doors.
Oh well, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll tell you.
So, Nora, what did you do inthe Marine Corps?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, my MOS was 1171 .
It's water purification, Now.
What my actual time spent inwas usually behind a desk
somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, not now.
At the time I wasn't too happyabout it, but my last duty
station, I got fapped out to theauto hobby shop and I
absolutely loved it.
I absolutely loved it.
I've also figured out that Iwould have liked anything better
than water purification.
I told my XO that he couldn'tpromote me to an O4 and keep me
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in the MOS.
I was in, wow.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you really didn't like water purification?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, I wanted an electrician.
I wanted an electrician.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's an electrifying personality.
Yes, yes, see, I understand.
These aren't Terry.
What makes you eligible to bein the American Legion?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I'm a veteran.
I was in the Army for 30 years.
I started out as a cannoneer inthe field artillery, then I
became moved into the firedirection control center in
artillery and then ended updoing quartermaster and
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evaluating water purificationunits and and uh spent time
mobilizing reserve units thatwere uh over to the Gulf War.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You did a lot in four years.
Well 30 years, 30 years, 30years.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you, nora.
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike.
What makes you eligible for theAmerican Legion?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I'm a Navy veteran.
I served from 83 to 86 on boardthe USS Yosemite.
I was an engine man and Iworked in the A-game division.
I was responsible for repairsand maintenance of just about
everything engines, steamequipment, air conditioning,
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hydraulics.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He just said my favorite word, air conditioning.
Yeah, we didn't word airconditioning.
We didn't have much airconditioning in the Army, did we
?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
No no.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And nor water purification, those cold showers
.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I told you I spent most of my time behind a desk.
She would have enjoyed thewater purification if she had
done it the right way.
I went down and observed awater purification.
Uh, if she had done it theright way.
I went down and, uh, observed awater purification unit pump
seawater out of the gulf ofamerica and purified it into
drinking water.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Wow, that's, that's a job right there.
Yes boy I was.
Uh, I got to drink out of those, those large canvas bags that
were always warm, hot, nasty.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh no, let's move on to another, happier subject and
don't want to look inside one ofthose.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, no, Moving on.
Here we are today talking withthe leadership of Post 6 in this
great city.
That I will not say because Ican't say it Corinthians,
Mississippi, All right, but thepost is what we say 105, 106
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years in existence, tell me whatday that y'all meet, and time
and location and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Second Thursday of each month we have a potluck at
six Meeting starts.
Actually, we start at seven,but we're going to start
starting a little sooner.
What was the other question?
The address 511 South TateStreet, corinth, mississippi,
38834.
We're located behind theKroger's on Highway 72.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Kroger out there.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That way.
That way, for those of us whoare on the radio, she's pointing
to my left, your right.
The Kroger is right over there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Pointing towards Highway 72.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Alright, and again, that's the second Thursday.
At what time again?
6 o'clock, all right.
And again, that's the secondThursday.
Yes, at what time again?
Six o'clock, six o'clock, allright.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And the zip code once again 38834.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And if you're anywhere outside of Corinthians,
mississippi, that's y'all's newname, right, all right, it is a
wonderful community, a nicetown to come visit and do some
shopping in, as my wife has toldme several times in my credit
card statement proofs.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Then, see, you should know where SoCo is, because
that's all.
The shopping is in SoCo Corinth.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Whenever I'm here, I'm here, she's out there.
Maybe somebody needs todescribe SoCo.
Is that for south, southcorinth, corinth is?
That what it?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
means yes, all right.
So south side of the railroadtrack, the main railroad tracks
that came through, that createdcorinth as the crossroad city,
the south side of it.
Those businesses have beenrenovated and they now call it
SoCo, okay makes sense and youjust call it the crossroads city
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.
When it was originally founded,it was crossroads, because the
railroad tracks crossed, whichis the reason for the history of
Corinth being part of the CivilWar because both sides wanted
the intersection of thecrossroads.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Nice to know.
I did not know that See.
I'm getting an education today.
You like red crayons on yellowpaper?
We got that part.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, that's important, that's important, it
is.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Does red stand out on ?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
yellow.
It does Helps with thatdysgraphia stuff, dyslexia,
dyslexia yes, dysgraphia yes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
This is all staying in, you know.
Oh, mercy Nora.
Let's talk a little bit aboutthe post here.
Tell me again I'll meet on thesecond Thursday at 6 o'clock,
and typically what happens at apost-meeting.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We open a meeting with prayer and our pledge and
our POW MIA.
That is one of the things thatmeans a lot to me, because some
of us gave little and some of usgave a whole lot, and if we
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can't remember those that gave awhole lot, then those that gave
a little yeah we're just justpart of part of it what does
being in the american legionmean to you?
it's an honor.
It really is an honor.
My grandpa is.
He passed in 01, but my grandpais a World War II Navy veteran
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and he's a lot of the reason whyI joined the Marine Corps.
But he's also a reason that Ihave a lot of pride in what
we're doing.
Reason that I have a lot ofpride in what we're doing,
because what we're my opinion,what the American Legion is for
is to reach out to our veteransthose active duty and after
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service and to be there becausecamaraderie ship is a real thing
.
There's times when only someonethat's been where we've been
understands what we're goingthrough.
And sometimes our family wantsto be there for us and that's
important.
But I don't think our familysometimes understands exactly
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everything that a veteran goesthrough I have to agree with you
100 on that one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Your your grandfather world war ii vet.
You said Navy.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Pacific or East.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Pacific.
He had a ship USS Chevalier, Ithink it's pronounced right was
sunk.
He spent three days in theocean before they rescued him,
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so I'm really very thankful thatthey rescued him.
Um, yeah, in the pacific.
He spent time in the islandstrying to recover from that and
some things that he took to thegrave with him the skin
condition for being in that oilywater for those days, and I'm
sure a lot of things that herefused to he never spoke of.
I mean, I only remember onestory that I'll not share here,
but only one story that he everreally told about being on the
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ship, other than I will say hespent his 18th birth.
Was it 18?
He had to be 18 to get inwithout a parental signature.
He was on the ship in thePacific Ocean on his 18th
birthday because he told hiscommanding officer hey, it's my
birthday today.
He's really, how old are you?
18.
?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh, my God man, terry , what's it mean to you to be in
the American Legion?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I think the service that the Legion does for
veterans and for the communityand veterans' families, that's
probably the biggest does forveterans and for the community
and veterans' families.
That's probably the biggestthing for me.
When I was very young I'vegiven talks before to different
groups Boy Scouts and things andI told them that my service
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started when I was a Cub Scoutand I feel like that my service
needs to continue on for therest of my life and I found a
way to do it here with theAmerican Legion.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You have a family member who was in the service
before.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
My father was in the Army and I have uncles that were
in the Army and an uncle thatwas in World War II in the Navy.
But World War.
Ii, korea and Vietnam.
I have uncles in all of those.
Any story that you like, juststands out for you.
(14:38):
My uncle that was in World WarII in the Navy when I was in
high school and decided to join,uh, he gave me.
He said I'll give you a pieceof advice.
When you go to basic training,when they're yelling at you and
talking about how stupid you are, he said, just think they're
talking to the person next toyou and just do your job.
(15:00):
And uh, that stuck with methrough basic training and ever
since you didn't get the.
Don't volunteer for anythingwell, I, yeah, I got that one
from my father like that one.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I think we all got that one.
Yeah, don't volunteer, getvoluntold.
Yeah, mike, what does uh beingin the american legion mean to
you?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
it's the uh, helping veterans and veterans' families
and trying to get the onesthat's in the service now that's
young and just getting outexplaining to them that we're
always here for them, that onceyou're a veteran, you're always
a veteran and no matter whatbranch you served in or what era
(15:41):
you served in, everybody knowswhat it's like to be in the
military.
It's basically the same, sowe've always got something to
talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Anybody in your past that was in your family.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I had an uncle.
I think that was in World WarII, but I don't know a lot about
it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, I want to thank you all for your service and
for your family's service.
I'm one of those people that Idon't know who my family served
before me.
I'm not fortunate to have thosestories passed on, but the
history of our families in thepast, you know, leads, I think,
to why a lot of us joined themilitary.
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We didn't have to join.
None of us were drafted, thankyou, because I would have got
stuck over there.
Of us were drafted, thank youBecause I would have got stuck
over there.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
When you're 6'4" it is.
You're that strong, Put you outthere and you catch those
things that they're throwing atyou.
I want to catch those things.
Anyway, tell me a little bitabout this post.
Tell me the history of Post 6.
Anybody know the history here?
(16:50):
Is it named after anyone?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We have a copy of our charter on the wall from 1919.
From 1919.
It's named after Perry Johns,who was a World War I veteran
from Corinth or from AlcornCounty that died during World
War I and is buried, I believe,in France.
(17:18):
And that's who.
When the post was, that was in1917, and so when the post was,
that was in 1917.
And so when the post wascreated in 1919, him being the
first person from Corinth thatdied in the war, that's who the
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post was named after.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Are you aware if he still has family?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
in the area?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Are they involved with the posting in any way?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
No, I don't believe that there's any in the area.
Most of the descendants thatI'm aware of are in Texas and we
have reached out to them and totrustees of their estates.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Tell me what's the Nora, what's the one thing that
stands out for you in this pastyear that the post has done?
That's just really somethingyou're proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm really proud of our wreaths across America.
Yeah, it's that.
And I'm also proud of our flagetiquette teachings the flag
etiquette teaching.
We go to the county and thecity schools for the elementary
first through fourth and weteach them about our flag.
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We teach them about folding theflag.
We teach them the proper way todo the Pledge of Allegiance.
This past one we just recentlyhad I'm truly excited about a
young second-grade child thatasked if she could sing and she
got up and she sang our NationalAnthem for us and she was just
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absolutely amazing.
I mean, she brought goosebumps.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
How old was she?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Second grade so seven years old, wow, and she will be
here on our Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Do you remember her name?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Mary Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Would have to be a Mary.
Elizabeth would have to be aMary.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Elizabeth.
And she did that with no musicand no writing in front of her.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No words, incredible, she just got up and Her hand
over her heart and sang.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Do you find a lot of cooperation in the school system
when you go to do these.
No pushback.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Not really.
Yeah, Not that I have had yet,With me still working.
I have not retired yet, so withme still working, it's hard for
me to get us in all.
Was there four?
Biggersville, Costeux Centraland the city school.
There's four schools in ourdistrict and it's hard for me to
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get in each and every one ofthem, so I know that two of them
three of them our countyschools are very welcoming.
I haven't yet tried to get intothe city school, as often.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do you find that the children?
Are they receptive?
Are they engaged?
I mean, obviously MaryElizabeth is engaged.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
She's very engaged, I'd have to say yes.
Yeah, I'll definitely say yes,because last year we went to
Biggersville and done the POWMIA training with the fourth and
fifth graders and I wasextremely impressed with we had
a question and answer time and Ipray the next time we go and I
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told Terry he definitely needsto be there.
I need somebody there with moreexperience to answer the
questions that these childrenwere coming up with, because I
was just like mouth open andeyes big some of the questions.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
so yes, and what grade was it?
4th and 5th?
9, 10 year olds you know I'vebeen out of school how many
decades now?
Let's not talk about that,because I think you're older
than me, Nine ten-year-olds.
You know I've been out ofschool how many decades now?
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, let's not talk about that, because I think
you're older than me Pledge ofAllegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is this still done?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It is.
Sometimes I question howaccurate they are when they tell
me it is, but yes, it is Allfour grades that we were with
the other day.
They all knew their Pledge ofAllegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Do they actually still do it in the classroom?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I've been told yes yeah, that the last group that
we did at that school.
We asked specifically if theydo the american legion or the
pledge of allegiance eachmorning and they said yes, wow
and what's your, what's yourexperience with it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean, when you go there, do you feel welcomed?
Are you comfortable as aveteran and as a?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes, we actually had.
I don't remember what grade itwas.
We actually had one of theteachers.
When we were ready to hand themback over to her, she told them
to stop wait, I have somethingI want to say.
And she told her children Iwill give you a challenge today
that when you are out and aboutin town, you will see veterans,
because there's telltale signsthey're, they're wearing their
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hat or they're wearing what wepan what?
what I want to call garb.
You know we're wearing our, ourmilitary garb.
I challenge you to go up tothat person and thank them for
their service.
And then she made each one ofthem walk by.
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They walked single file lineout and they shook each.
Was there three legionnairesthere that day.
They had the children shake ourhand and tell us thank you for
your service.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
How do you feel about that when somebody approaches
you on the street?
You don't know them and theyjust come up and thank you for
your service?
How do you feel about that whensomebody approaches you on the
street?
You don't know them and theyjust come in.
Thank you for your service.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I think my favorite response that someone another
Navy veteran told me was to lookthem straight in the eye and
tell them thank you for beingthe type of citizen that I was
was willing to fight for.
I think that's my favorite one.
Now, normally my response is Iget a little tongue-tied and I'm
able to say thank you because Ididn't do it for the show, I'd
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done it to honor my grandpa.
I wanted to be like my grandpaand I wanted to defend this
country and to kind of piggybackoff what I think Terry said
it's part of the reason why Iwant to be here in this American
Legion is my oath did not endin 97 when I got out of active
duty Marine Corps and I stilllove this country.
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She may not be perfect, butshe's my country and I'm not
willing to run from this country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I don't think any of us are, terry.
Same question Somebody comes upto you on the street and says
thank you for your service.
They want to shake your handand it's normally.
For me, in the past it's beenyounger people, but it's now and
I've got to be careful to saythis because 40s are young how
does that affect you?
When they come up and say that,what do you think?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
when I first, when the first time that it had
happened with me, I didn'treally know what to think, uh,
but since then I have becomereal comfortable with it and it
gives me a lot of pride.
But, as Nora said, I alwaystell them thank you and a lot of
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times it's another veteran andI really didn't know how to take
that.
The first time another veterandid said thank you, because
they're a veteran also.
But we thank each other, andjust recently I was in a store
shopping and I had on a cap thathad US Army on it, and an older
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lady came up to me and she saidthat her father was in the
military and that she wanted to.
She told me thank you, but shesaid she wanted to do something
else that her father had toldher to do and she saluted.
And there we were, in themiddle of a store, shopping and
saluting each other, and thenshe wanted to know if she did it
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correctly, did she?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
She did, she did.
Her daddy would have been proud.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yes, that's what she said, and I told her that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Mike, same question.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I feel really good about it, but at first a lot of
times I feel like I don't reallydeserve that recognition,
because some of them have mademore of a sacrifice than me.
But I normally do like theother two and just thank them
and uh move on yeah, and kind ofa weird feeling the first time
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yeah
Speaker 1 (25:55):
and when it happens to me.
Still it's sometimes it's it'suh disturbing I think.
You know it's like kind ofembarrassing a little bit, but I
mean I appreciate it and and Icome back with it and it gives
me an opportunity to talk withsomeone.
But just recently I'm in astore and I'm walking down the
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aisle and I'm looking at a guythat I would be calling sir and
he beats me to the punch andthen he sees my 82nd Airborne
cab and says thank you for yourservice.
And I'm still stuck on beingcalled sir by a guy I wanted to
call sir first.
Then I looked in the mirror,saw all the white hair.
So yeah, thank you.
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You know, I think it means a lotwhen the public does that,
because your father a Vietnamvet.
Those guys came back, thoseindividuals, men and women, came
back and were, in my opinion,very much abused.
And I am afraid now with theIraq-Afghanistan war and I told
my wife this when the warstarted I said as long as the
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movies that are being made arepositive, you will see good
support from the civilianpopulation.
But the first negative movie,you're going to hear some
negative things and to me it hasspiraled downward.
Let's get it going, let's go.
Let's pause for a moment tohear from some of the people who
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Speaker 7 (27:37):
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Speaker 8 (28:07):
When a person calls 988, they're connected to a
crisis counselor.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Crisis is completely self-defined.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
If you're wondering if you should call, you should
probably call.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
A caller can expect to talk about coping skills,
talk about resources and ways tomove forward beyond the call.
They can call us, they can chat, they can text and when they
come out on the other sidethey're feeling better.
Call or text 988 or chat988lifelineorg.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Be willing to show up for your veteran, your friend,
your loved one.
Be willing to trust your gut,follow your heart, take a risk.
Be the one willing to ask, toguess wrong, to even offend
another, to keep them safe, toremind them that they are
valuable.
If you know a veteran, be theone to reach out and make them a
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part of your life.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Hello, my name is Nora Moreland.
I'm a proud US Marine of theWorld War II Navy veteran Mike
Rapoff of Delbert Shea, whoserved in the Pacific.
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And now back to this episode ofthe Veterans Sound Off podcast.
Let's let's talk a little bitabout Boys State.
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We got that coming up here.
What are y'all doing as a postfor Boys State?
What support do you have for it, or what do you know about Boys
State?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
We sponsor Boys State every year.
I don't remember how many wehad last year.
Did we have any?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yes, we had some, I want to say five, seven.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I don't remember it being that many.
But I know that we had somethat came down and helped with
some events that we did.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's one of the requirements for me to sign your
Boy State papers is you shouldcome help us volunteer some time
with us.
If we're doing yard work orsome mulch, if we're doing an
activity, sweep the floor, somesort of volunteer, not only to
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get me to sign for your papersbut it also goes towards their.
They have volunteer hours theyneed for school, so they get my
signature for their volunteertime plus they get my my
signature for their boy stateyou're the first one I've heard
say that, and that is great.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It is community help?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Sure, that's what the American Legion is about.
That's what Boy State is about.
Is community help, communityservice maybe a better word
community service and learningabout our government, learning
how they can be a productivemember in our society.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm going to take that back to my own post.
If you want to go to Boys State, Girls State, you need to get
involved in post events.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
One of my favorites was when we had a boy.
The last time we'd done yardwork, he and I had went out to
our tank and was cleaning,pulling weeds, and then we were
going to put the mulch down andhe looks at me.
He says what is the AmericanLegion anyway?
I was like really, and Istarted asking him some
questions.
So it was a good opportunity tohave a conversation with him
about what it is we do insideour community also.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I like that, and you educated him.
Did he have a family member whowas eligible?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
He wasn't sure Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, we'll get him when he enlists.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
We will.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
All right, there's a good thing.
What do you do in the public?
How do you share with thepublic what the American Legion
is?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Well, one of the things that got me is the.
I started my military servicewith the National Guard and the
time that I was in the NationalGuard, no one ever mentioned the
American Legion to me and Ididn't know much about the
American Legion or that I waseligible to be a member of the
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American Legion.
So one of the things that I didafter becoming a Legionnaire
was contact the local NationalGuard unit and ask if I could
come speak to their members andtalk to them about the American
Legion and the things that we do.
And when I talked about theAmericanism, one of them asked
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what do you do to promote that?
And we I talked about the flagetiquette classes that we've
done at the elementary schoolsand with the junior auxiliary to
try to get them to understandthat we can do a lot for the
community as Legionnaires.
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And when I've been talking withsome of my other veterans that I
know that are not members, Italk with them about some of the
things that we do that they maynot be aware of that it's the,
the legion, that is involved inthat, like putting the flags on
the graves at the nationalcemetery or putting out the
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wreaths across America at theNational Cemetery or selling
wreaths for them to take and puton their relatives' graves that
are veterans in othercemeteries, and just trying to
make them aware of the thingsthat the Legion can do for the
community and for veterans andtheir families.
And Nora and I have talkedabout reaching out to other
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members of the Legion andmembers of the community and
asked them what they would liketo see the Legion do for
veterans and their families andfor the community.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And you're getting responses back from that
question.
Well, we're just starting now.
Just starting.
How was the reception from theguard?
I mean, you haven't been aformer guardsman yourself.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I was welcomed in as a member, that I had been in
that unit, and so I started outtelling them that so that they
would look at me maybe a littledifferent, that I wasn't just
some outsider coming in to talkwith them about some
organization.
I told them that I was a memberof that unit and I started my
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service, my career, in that unitand that no one had ever talked
with me about the AmericanLegion.
And I wanted to talk with themabout it and let them know that
they were all eligible to becomemembers of the American Legion,
and a lot of them in that unitdid not live here locally and so
I talked with them about theAmerican Legion being throughout
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the state and you know othercommunities, and for them to
reach out to their local postand find out when they meet and
find out the things that they'redoing and to go meet with them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Did you get anybody to take a bite, anybody?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't know if they joined, but there were some
people there that had aninterest, and the two that spoke
with me personally did not livein Alcorn County, so they were
going to reach out to the postin their area right, mike,
anything for you uh, one problemwe have with the recruitment
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with the younger generation isthey.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
They just don't.
A lot of them seem don't seemto be interested.
And I understand why becausethey're young and maybe just got
out and they've got young kidsand they've got to work and
stuff.
But I think we've got to domore to try to get the younger
generation in this organization,because we're getting old.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Speak for yourself because we're getting old.
Speak for yourself On thatsubject here.
How long, nora, was it beforeyou joined the Marine?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Corps.
I got out of the Marine Corpsin 1997, and I think I've been a
member.
It's been less than 10 yearsthat I've been a member.
I will say you made me think ofsomething that in 2007, my
husband my husband is a combatcorpsman who got out of the Navy
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and he was in the nationalguard.
Well, in 2007, the unit he waswith in the national guard went
to Iraq.
So now I am what I'd like tocall a married single parent.
I'm married.
He's in Iraq.
I'm here with two kids.
Yeah, that's a really weirdplace to be.
If I had known about this postin 2007, this would have been a
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place I should have been then,because his unit wasn't here in
Corinth, so, his unit being inanother part of the state of
Mississippi, I wasn't closeenough to be part of the family
readiness program.
Nobody there reached out to me.
People here didn't know aboutme, but I needed.
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I needed help.
I needed help, and so I shouldhave been here in 2007.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But I didn't know.
When you were on active duty,were you aware of the American
Legion?
Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, well, yes and no.
My first Knowledge of AmericanLegion was in Michigan, where my
grandparents' parents were.
I was born.
American Legion was very activethere, but I grew up thinking
it was family.
Everybody there was family.
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I've told my auxiliary thatsome of my fondest memories of
being at the American Legion wasthe women, the food.
Fondest memories of being atthe American Legion was the
women, the food, I mean, it'sstill food at this age but, you
know, at less than 10, food wasextremely important the food,
the family connection, the beingconcerned.
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If one of us kids got hurt, itwas the auxiliary members that
were coming over to check on us.
If our parents, if our mothersdidn't see us first.
So I may have gotten a littlebit off the question there.
But my first knowledge was as achild because the Legion in my
town was very active forweddings and family
get-togethers and the poppiesand the flags and even with that
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background, with the flags andand even with that, that
background, with the AmericanLegion, you still, I still,
didn't put it together with myMarine Corps brain that I, I
qualified, that this is where Ineeded to be.
Wow, I think.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Big step.
Yeah, Terry, for yourself.
Were you aware of the AmericanLegion when you were in the
military?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I was aware of it, but I wasn't aware that I would
fit in there or that I waseligible to be a member.
I guess the first person thattalked to me about it was an
uncle that was a Vietnam veteran, that was a member.
But then I'm a motorcycle riderand I had a friend that I went
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to basic training with, that westill ride motorcycles together
and one day he said why don'tyou go on a ride with us?
And I said who's us?
And he said, well, it's a groupfrom the American Legion, the
American Legion Riders.
And I went on a ride with themand when we stopped to eat lunch
Mike said that he was theadjutant and he said are you a
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veteran?
And I said yeah, and he saidwhy don't you join?
I've been here ever since.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
And how long was it from the time you got out of the
service until you joined?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I think 13 years.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Okay, all right, mike , were you aware.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
I was aware of it.
I wasn't quite sure what it wasall about.
Growing up, I thought I knewwhat the American Legion, where
the American Legion building,was at, but I thought it was
just where they had wrestling.
I remember those days.
I didn't join the Legion forabout 21 years after I got out
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and the Legion riders drew meinto that, then it got me
involved.
Okay, and how long have youbeen in now Since?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
2007.
Okay, so the two of you came inbecause of the riders.
Nora, why did you join theLegion?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I don't even know.
I've tried to think of why.
I tried to remember when I camein.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
For me in the service in the Air Force and the Army.
I don't ever remember anybodyfrom the American Legion coming
on post or base to talk aboutthe American Legion.
I was aware of American Legionpost VFW post, outside of the
gates, knowing where it was.
But, like you, am I eligible?
Speaker 7 (41:16):
You know, I mean, I'm not a Vietnam vet, not a Korean
War vet.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You know, I think Legion-wise we fell our fellow
veterans by not going on thebases and letting the active
duty troops, the Guard andReserve troops, know that
they're eligible and actuallystaying involved in that
situation.
I don't know if you have basesanywhere near this side of the
state for you or not, but Iencourage you to make that one
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of your recruitment efforts.
Again, family efforts whenthose guys went off to Iraq and
Kuwait and all that the firsttime you know, we had guard
units all around us and tried toget the families involved and I
feel like maybe we didn't do abetter job of keeping the
families involved.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I think a lot if we involve the family.
That's one of the reasons whypost-six is we stress this is
family, because I think a lot oftimes I'm gonna speak for
myself, but I'm gonna use theword veterans with an s I think
we, as veterans, can be veryhard-headed and we don't need
that.
Yeah, I'm fine, but if we canreach the families and the
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families see what's going on, wetend to follow.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
On the subject of family, what are you doing here
at this post that would involvea family?
Why would a 30-year-old father,mother, couple of kids want to
come to this post?
Is there something for thechildren?
Is there something for theparents?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
We are starting.
Is there something for thechildren?
Is there something for theparents?
We are starting.
We do have the junior auxiliary, which you have to be connected
to a veteran under the age of18.
Then we have our auxiliaryunits that are for family
members, spouses and two degreeseither way for the auxiliaries.
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And then we have our sons.
For the young men, we have ourriders and our riders are active
.
Stumbling over is an r, areactive in rides and doing stuff
inside the community what do youdo?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Do you have family days?
Do you have events that wereinvolved?
I mean, you've got a greatposter, beautiful poster,
beautiful grounds and everythinglike that.
Is there a park nearby that wecan have children to be involved
?
Is there I'm looking atinvolvement for kids?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
We have a city park.
If you're talking about like apark, we have a city park but we
don't really do a lot there.
I know that Corinth is talkingabout trying to take our field I
say our field, the county'sfield over here and creating a
flower garden, a nature trail,and I'm really hoping that if
that does come over here, thatwe can try to utilize that as to
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draw families in, and whodoesn't like to see flowers and
butterflies?
Speaker 4 (44:13):
some of the events that we have here are designed
around family involvement.
You know, like the the livinghistory veterans history day
that we had, we wanted families,people of all ages, to
participate and be a part ofthat.
I know for me personally, whenwe have different service events
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that we're doing, I've tried toget my grandsons involved and
get them to understand what thelegion is doing and understand
about service to their communityand and hopefully get them to
also get some of their friendsto participate in those events
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and having much success withthat with my grandsons.
I have uh, they've uh gottenwhere the race across america
they've been participating for afew years now started out with
the Boy Scouts before I got inthe Legion, but they participate
in that and putting out theflags and so some of those type
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of events getting them to comeand participate, and I think
they're enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
How old are they?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
13 and 15.
Boy do.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I feel old Trying to get them to think about.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
You know like we've done with the junior auxiliary.
You know that they can join thesons now and participate in
events.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
We have our breakfasts also.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Yeah, I get to see that on your Facebook page quite
often, often, you know.
It's just not fair that I'mthree hours away and they're
talking about bacon and biscuitsand eggs and and carlene's
cooking yeah, that's the otherthing.
Carlene is cooking.
Carlene parker, she will notcome be on the microphone, but
we're going to give her a hardtime.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
I was going.
We had a function here where Ithink we were selling spaghetti.
We were selling something and Iwas going around downtown in
SoCo and advertising and takingpre-orders for the spaghetti
dinner.
Taking pre-orders for thespaghetti dinner, and every time
I walked in and said my nameI'm nora moreland, I'm with the
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american legion, post six, carly.
We're cooking.
And the first thing that wouldcome up is is carlene starting
to cook him?
When are you starting to dothat breakfast?
Is carlene cooking?
So carlene's cooking is anaction word together that's the
best recruitment tool you got.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Yes, it brings lots of hearts do you know that she
can blush?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yes, yes, I do After Thursday night's meeting.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
What happened on Thursday night's meeting.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
This last one.
I presented her with someflowers for appreciation for the
things that she does for ourLegion and I was just fine until
she started to choke up.
Then we had to turn away fromone another because she went a
little pink in the face and Ineeded to still be able to speak
.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Oh, great job.
Tell me what's coming up in thefuture.
The post here.
What's coming up in the nextsix months?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Pancakes and poppies and pancakes.
And we're having.
Have we come up with a name forthe ride?
And we're having.
Have we come up with a name forthe ride?
We're having our.
Legion riders are having a ridethat same day with the poppies
and pancakes.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
What is poppies and pancakes.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Poppies and pancakes.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Because I'm hungry and you're just.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, so am I, and I think I'm hoping they didn't eat
everything out there.
Poppies and pancakes.
The poppies are a veryimportant um item in our
american legion and in ourauxiliary.
They are a token of remembrancefor those that have fought
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before us.
I think it was world war ii,world War I with Flanders Fields
and we are going to have apoppy coloring contest for the
high school students.
I had to stop and think becausewe gave the coloring sheets out
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to the first and fourth graders, trying to get them involved,
and we'll go back and get thosepictures to have a contest with
them also.
But the poppies and pancakes isfor the high school students.
We will have a contest andthere will be pictures and a
award for that and then afterthat we will have a legion
riders ride and I believe themoney that we're gathering for
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that one is going to Ronnie'sretreat.
We're trying to gather money toget power for Ronnie's retreat.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Okay, poppy's and Piggy's for Ronnie's retreat.
What day is this 19 April?
For you civilians, that's April19th.
What time?
Speaker 3 (49:03):
9 to 11.
Or should I have said zero,nine to 11?
I had someone just comment onthat to me recently.
I still write 19 April 2025.
It's the only way I know towrite it.
If you make me write it theother way, I have to stop and
think yeah, and somebody askedme just some random person, you
military, I'm like why?
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Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Why.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
And they pointed out the difference in that.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, Do the same thing with your number seven.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
You put the I do sometimes, but I hear my
daughter telling me I'm beingextra, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Tell me about Ronnie's.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Ronnie's retreat, that is.
Oh, his last name just went outof my head McNutt.
Joey McNutt, his brother, is aperson that has committed
suicide.
He's a veteran that committedsuicide and Ronnie and his
family.
The way that they are trying toreach out to the community is
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they have Ronnie's retreat.
It is a shelter that they aretrying to build for homeless
veterans to get them servicesand needs that they need and to
help get them back on their feet.
It's a helping hand up to getthem back on their feet and to
be able to provide forthemselves or at least be the
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best person that they can be.
And from what I understand fromthe meeting the other night,
they have gotten to the pointwhere I think they have three
homes set up.
They need power and I'mcurrently going to be that's
what I'm doing.
After this program, this speechin here, I'm going home to learn
more about.
There is a grant that'savailable, I think, through the
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auxiliary that they can getmoney to go towards.
Is it through the homeless, theveteran service projects and
the Legion has to?
Is it the Legion has to or theauxiliary has to come up with
the 20%?
The auxiliary has to come upwith 20% of this grant money for
us to be eligible to get thegrant and we are currently
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working on our 20%.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Is there a cutoff date to raise this money?
Speaker 3 (51:20):
No no.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
You mentioned that this is being done because this
veteran committed suicide.
And at this point we need totalk about 988 and how important
that number is.
And for those who aren't awareof it, 988 is a telephone number
that was set up to help anyonewho is having a moment of mental
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need.
If you will, if you're feelinglike not only the person who
might want to hurt themselves orcommit suicide, but just
somebody that needs a moment todecompress or talk about
whatever, you know you have anemergency, you call 911.
If you're having a mental oremotional moment, call 988.
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If you're a veteran, you pressone and you get hooked up with
somebody who's a veteran or istrained to talk with us.
You know, but in at any time,anybody can have a dark moment.
You can have a situation happenthat just brings that dark cloud
over you and you have thoughtsthat maybe are not healthy
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thoughts and I can say this froma personal point of view where
you may not have PTS, you maynot have Agent Orange in your
life, you just may be having amoment.
Call that 988 number and takeadvantage of it.
It's free, nobody's going togive you a hard time, somebody
will get your information andonce you have completed your
(52:53):
phone call, I can promise yousomebody's going to be calling
you back to follow up on you.
Anything else coming up that wewant to talk about, anything
going on in the post.
Speaker 5 (53:03):
Well, we'll have our Memorial Day in May, which we'll
put out flags.
We invite the Boy Scouts toraise and lower the flag at the
National Cemetery.
Immediately after that we cometo the post and we have a flag
retirement ceremony.
The sons lead that and weinvite anybody that wants to
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come come to that too and weinvite anybody that wants to
come come to that too.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
that is one that I would really like to push the
invitation to.
Also is our flag retirementceremonies, flag education it's
important I I can't beat thatdrum enough without sounding
like a broken record but ourflag education and flag
retirement is important.
There needs to be the knowledge.
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There's a difference betweengoing out on the street and
burning my flag and a differencein retiring my flag.
There's a whole, completedifferent honor One's honor and
one's very disrespectful andit's just really very important
(54:13):
to me because I don't want tofind out what Nora will do the
day that I see someone burningmy flag.
I seriously don't think it willbe just a simple about face and
walk off.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
Not even close.
No, I can see Nora becoming.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Very irate Very irate .
Speaker 1 (54:33):
All of us?
I think all of us would yes.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
We've seen Nora irate and it's not pretty, Nora, when
is the flag retirement ceremony.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Do you have a date set for that?
Speaker 3 (54:42):
It will be on Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
Okay, where at?
Speaker 3 (54:46):
Saturday.
Speaker 5 (54:47):
The Saturday before Memorial Day.
Okay, where at Saturday, theSaturday before Memorial Day
would be at the NationalCemetery in Corinth?
Speaker 1 (54:53):
So will they meet up there or come to the post first
and then y'all go to thecemetery?
Speaker 5 (54:58):
We'll all meet at the cemetery.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
And then we'll come back to the post for the flag
retirement ceremony.
It'll be done here.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Okay, all right.
Talking about flag retirements,you got a flag that needs to be
retired.
How do you know it needs to beretired?
Speaker 3 (55:17):
When it's faded, extremely faded, when it's
tattered, torn.
We actually have some postcardsMe, being I work at the post
office.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Oh, you're the one.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yeah, I being I work at the post office.
Oh, you're the one.
Yeah, I'm the one.
I'm the one.
I just stick it in your mailbox.
I have nothing to do with thepostage stuff, but we have some
postcards that will informpeople that your flag needs to
be retired.
And the reason I bring up thepost office thing is I had a
(55:49):
person, a specific address, onmy route, that their flag was
not a flag anymore, it was juststrips of material.
It should never get to thepoint that it is just strips of
material.
It should not be hanging upsidedown because the rings on it
have come apart.
So when it gets tattered, whenit gets faded, take it down with
(56:13):
some respect, bring it to yourlocal American Legion, your
local VFW, your Boy Scout troops, any one of those three places
that I know of In Corinth.
You can bring it to the postoffice because they will give it
to me.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
All right, Do you have my post?
We have a what's the properword here?
We have a mailbox that has beendiscontinued, used.
We have it painted red, whiteand blue and we have a sign on
it.
Do you all have one of thosehere to?
Speaker 3 (56:44):
drop off yes.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
Yes, and it gets full pretty regularly.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
We do have Seth Ricketts' ride every year.
Do you know what date that isthis year, may 10th?
Speaker 7 (56:56):
May 10th.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
What is Seth Ricketts ?
Speaker 3 (56:57):
Seth Ricketts was an Army infantryman.
I think I may be wrong on that,but he was killed in Iraq and
we have had this is our 12th.
I think it's like our 12thannual ride and they gather
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money, funds, and it goes to theFisher House and we are now we
have one in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Terry, if you don't mind, would you?
Speaker 4 (57:30):
please close us with a prayer.
Yes, heavenly father, thank you, lord, for the many blessings
you've given us.
We pray that you watch over usas we go about our business.
Lord, protect us as we travelhome.
In jesus christ name, we pray,amen, amen thank you, terry.
Speaker 1 (57:45):
And that was our visit with the perry a john's
american legion, post six.
Next week we return to post sixand visit with cindy rhodes,
president of american legionauxiliary unit six, along with
pan mcgarver, the treasurer andchaplain, tina buck.
That's next monday here on theveteran sound off podcast.
On behalf of all hands mediallc, I want to say thank you to
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those members of the Post 6American Legion family who have
helped to make this episodepossible through their financial
support.
Thank you very, very much.
A very special thank you toJonathan Michael Fleming for his
musical talents.
You can find his CDs and videoson Facebook, instagram, amazon
(58:28):
Music and YouTube.
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All Rights Reserved,everybody's on the plane.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
Hard work, hard work.
We do what we play.
Hard work, hard work, hard workis what they say.
Hard work, hard work, hard work.
I earn my pay.
Hard work, work, hard work,work, hard work, work.
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