members of VFW Post 8337 and
American Legion Post 527
will meet at 800 hours (8 am)
at
Henderson Park,
in
downtown Sister Bay for a
short Placing of the wreath
ceremony at 8:30 a.m., after which we'll
load up benches and chairs
and head for the
Sister Bay cemetery.
American
Legion Post 527 is in
charge of programs at both
Henderson Park and the
Sister Bay cemetery. We'll
post the program here as
soon as all details have
been confirmed.
In a national
survey of veteran needs and wants,
veterans ranked
"socializing"with friends and fellow
veterans ahead of access to "healthy" food,
housing, their health and contact with their
relatives and family.
What did they fear
most? Being
forgotten shut-up in a nursing home and not
being remembered for who they were and the
mark they left behind, once their time came
to walk off into the sunset.
Over 400 VFW, American Legion and Disabled
American Veterans landed at Wisconsin's Capitol
frustrated by legislators and the Governor
failing to pass and subsequently fund priority
legislation.
Click here for
highlights of Veterans'
Day at the Wisconsin Capitol
- 2025!
"It's time we stand up and fight to pass our
"priority" legislations!"
Over 400 members of the VFW - American
Legion and Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
gathered at Wisconsin's Capitol in Madison,
frustrated by the lack of action on priority
legislation that's been repeatedly kicked
down the road year after year!
They landed chanting "This is OUR house" and
"All we're asking is for you
to pass our "priority"
legislation"
After four years of
open borders every man, women and
child in America has
been traumatized. They
feel guilty for not
stopping the open border
madness, fear what's
coming next and all live under a
profound sense we're
totally out of control.
Few
doubt, we're on the
brink of WW3 and
we're sitting
ducks for the next
terrorist attack.
Listen UP!
The success of our volunteer
(501c3) veteran organizations
depends heavily on recruiting
members who live/work close to
the Post to which they belong.
Please understand, I do not
speak for any of the veteran
organizations, to which I
belong.
I
speak only for those, who want to
make sure we'll always have
boots on the ground ready to
secure our borders,
honor our fallen and fight
to restore the
freedom and independence lost,
during the past four years.
Elected officials, corporate
executives
and God fearing, "Make America Great
again" conservatives are under attack.
Consequently, we have to focus on teaching
"Executive/Self Protection"
skills
throughout the private sector.
We live in a
"Home-rule" country, secured by
the
"Bill of Rights" handed down
through generations from our
Founding Fathers. It's time
we drain the Washington swamps and take
back the control over our what's being
taught in our schools. It's time to join
forces and fight to reclaim our freedom of
speech, freedom of religion and
our independence.
We're building
the "troop-strength" in veteran
organizations across the
country.
We launched
the
George Erickson Honor's Brigade
to
recruit new members into our VFW
Post 8337, American Legion Post
527 and AMVET Post 51. All
three Posts operate north of the
45th parallel on the Door County
Peninsula.
NOTE:
If you're joining one of the two
VFW Posts in Door County and
live or work north of the 45th
parallel (That's a
line that runs roughly between
Egg Harbor and Jacksonport)
join Post 8337. If you live or
work south of the 45th parallel,
join VFW Post 3088.
Mission Accomplished:
We completed
"Phase 1"
of our "Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital", dubbed
M*A*S*H 4257
k,
that'll serve as a fund raising
soup kitchen for
501c3organizations in Door County and
stage mission-ready,
street-smart, field-tested
veterans, to respond during
any large-scale,
life-threatening event along
State US Highways #42 and #57.
George was our Guidance
Councilor at Gibraltar
High School back in
the 1960's.
He understood our hopes
and dreams and knew the fear
we shared heading off to
war in Vietnam.
It
was George Erickson, Rev.
William "Bill"
Shepherd and Gibraltar
High School Principal'
Bill Seeburger, who
knelt in an apple
orchard south of town
and prayed there'd someday be a
"Scandia Village" for
aging veterans from the
Town of Liberty Grove.
VFW Post 8337 along
with American Legion
Post 527 and AMVET Post
51 has begun a project
to map the location
of every veteran
gravesite in every
cemetery north of the
45th parallel on the
Door County Peninsula.
Click here to view a
short video on how we
plan to proceed.
We're launching a
program called
"Family' Ties"
that'll identify
veterans on the Door
County peninsula as well
as, a
"veteran' mentoring
program" that'll
work with students
considering a career
path in the armed
forces.
How can you help?
Encourage all veterans
in your family, to get a
"life-time" membership
in the
veteran organizations
closest to
their family home.
The success of our
veteran organizations, depends
heavily on
members being as active
as possible, which means
they're living a short
distance from where they
meet each month.
FYI:
Gibraltar
School
District
students
will be
writing a one
page
history
of
veterans
in their
family,
living
and
deceased,
highlighting
those
currently
on
active
duty.
Contact
information,
to
include
a cell
phone
number,
an email
address
and a
"snail-mail"
address
will be
used to
invite
their
family'
veteran
to the
zoomed
social
events
before
and
after
our
monthly
meetings..
For
veterans
buried
in Door
County,
we're
asking
for any
information,
to
include
the name
of the
cemetery,
pictures
of
headstones
and
memorial
plaques,
etc.
that'll
help us
locate
their
grave
site the
week
before
Memorial
Day.
We're
asking
students
to
work
with the
"sexton's
at each
cemetery
to
update
the maps
we use
to place
flags on
veteran
graves
the week
before
Memorial
Day.
NOTE:
Please
let us
know, if
your
family'
veteran
has a
plaque
at any
Veteran'
memorial
in Door
County.
We've
been on a mission to rebuild the
troop-strength in
VFW
posts
throughout Wisconsin by creating
"Public-to-Private
Partnerships"
that'll stand "mission-ready"
to respond anytime a large scale, life
threatening event overwhelms a
response from local fire and police
department personnel.
Mission Accomplished
M*A*S*H
stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital"
M*A*S*H 4257
was designed, developed and staged to
deploy the full length of Hwy #42 and Hwy #57 in
Wisconsin under the command of our seven
Fire Chiefs in Door County. We're building
M*A*S*H 4257
using
M*A*S*H 4077
as a role model.
We march
to honor the living and place flags to
honor those who gave their all so we
live free and independent.
Up and until now, drones were too
small to carry an"Electromagnetic
pulse"generator, large enough to
shut down
enough of our electric-grid, to
spread panic across the country and
traumatize every red-blooded, man, woman
and child around the world. More R&D information:
Please understand, I do not
speak for any of the veteran
organizations, to which I
belong.
I
speak only for those, who want
only to
make sure we'll always have
boots on the ground ready to
secure our borders,
honor our fallen and fight
to restore the
freedom and independence lost,
during the past four years.
When the "Rubber hits
the road", bike clubs across
Wisconsin stand mission
ready to act as road-guards
during any large scale,
life-threatening mass evacuation.
We're recruiting and
training "Honor
Guards" to post the colors
and give the Final Salute"
at veteran funerals in Door
County north of the 45th
parallel.
I
launched this site
back in 2001, just
after the 9-11-01
attack on the New
York World Trade
Center. Much below
this point is dated
material, so read it
as if you where
there. God Bless
"Full speed ahead
and damn the
torpedoes."
Eyes right and page
down for a KIA
briefing on five of
Door County's
finest.
In 'Nam we seldom had a day without rain so riding wet
with Rolling Thunder's 1244 or Door County's "Rubber
hits the Road" only brought back memories of drying out
before moving out! Don't miss our
www.youtube.com
video shot while our ride paused at Door County's Fallen
Heroes Memorial in Sturgeon Bay.
Our
primary
mission was
to safely
deploy 5
Honor Riders
with Rolling
Thunder's
1244 riding
out of La
Crosse to LZ
Lambeau
while at the
same time
deploying 5
from KIA
gravesites
in Door
County to LZ
Lambeau on
Friday, May
21, 2010.
The 1244
represent
the number
of Wisconsin
solders
killed in
action,
missing in
action, or
who were
prisoners
during the
Vietnam War.
All Door
County
riders made
it safely to
LZ Lambeau.
Two of
Rolling
Thunder's
riders went
down in the
rain on the
way to La
Crosse
suffering
only minor
injuries.
Three went
down in the
rain during
the first
deployment
sending one
to the
hospital,
and one went
down later
in the day
suffering
minor
injuries but
totaling his
bike. The
FAA grounded
the chopper
planning to
fly over the
1244.
Our
primary
mission was
to guard the
Moving WALL
while
landing Door
County
Vietnam vets
with KIA
family
members
safely on
the ground
at LZ
Lambeau
Saturday May
22, 2010.
We all
landed
safely
in-country!
We answered
roll-call,
signing a
parking lot
size map of
South
Vietnam!
We
reconnected
with
comrades and
shared "war
stories" and
common
experiences!
Golden
Mothers are
the mothers
of solders
on the WALL!
Washington Islanders paused from coast to coast on the Island, organized a special service at Door County's Fallen Heroes Memorial, and reflected at the Moving WALL in honor of their fallen USMC Lance Corporal Richard E. Perez.
Rick was scheduled to leave for home on September 22 when he was killed by a fragmentation grenade in Quang Nam province on September 6, 1969; sixteen days before he would have safely landed home on the Island. (Pictures by Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel photographer Ron Overdahl) Click here and check out Commander Richard Purinton's blog.
Click here and view
"Door County
Veterans' Welcome Home"
and
"Over Door
County - Under God"
videos!
Rolling
Thunder
escorted the
Moving WALL
out of town
Monday
morning, May
24, 2010
Pioneer 1
packed up
and moved
out at high
noon!
We salute
our fellow
veterans and
applaud Door
County
residents
for their
heart
warming
"welcome
home" and
shouts of
support as
our
Ride-for-Five
wound
through Door
County on
its way to
LZ Lambeau.
We cried and
beamed with
pride along
the way!
We'll never
forget your
signs,
banners, and
shouts of
encouragement.
Almost
everyone on
our
"Ride-for-Five"
out of Door
County and
our ride for
1244 out of
La Crosse
reported
crying as
they
realized the
welcome they
knew was
there but
had never
really felt.
I guarantee
We'll never
forget our
welcome
home.
Rich Woldt
68 - 70
Vietnam Vets across the state thank
NEWBA's President Owen "OB1" Bergwin for
his support and dedication throughout
the LZ Lambeau planning year.
OB1 rode
with Rolling Thunders' 1244 soaked to
the bone in the second wave out of La
Crosse. He worked in the Rolling
Thunders' food stand, attended countless
meetings, and stood with us at every
turn. Thanks OB1! You're a friend of
veterans around the world. Any single
women vacationing in Door County would
be wise to have you as an escort.
THANK YOU
Honor
Riders!
Vietnam Vets
were proud
to ride with
members of
the
TITAN MC and
Door Devil
Motorcycle
Clubs,
Door County's "Ride for
Five" with Rolling
Thunder's 1244 was
ridden by Owen "OB1" Burgwin for Richard
Perez, Eric Peil for Dan Phister, Joe
Rockwell for David Schaefer, Karen
"Finger" Nicholson for Phil Overbeck,
and Michael "Saint Michael" Burgwin for
Randy Wagner.
Door County's "Ride for Five"
was lead by Emmett VanGorver riding
for Randy Wagner, Ken Suess for Dan
Phister, Tim Gauthier for Richard Perez,
Joe Stich for Dave Schaefer and Frank
Mack riding for Phil Overbeck.
.... and with Rolling
Thunder, Patriot Guard, Warriors' Watch and
clubs too many to mention...
Vietnam vets thank
our Door Co.
Business Community:
Motor Pool - Fuel &
Medical Supply Depots
During "Rubber hits the Road" managers
at all refueling depots carried the rank
of "Full Bull!"
U.S. Hwy 57
AL Post 527 Tom Kowalski
Staging Area # 2
Ken Gobel - US Navy
Staging Area # 3
BP' Diane Hank & Shell' Lisa Anschutz
Motor Pool:
Viking Grill Owner/CEO
Dan Peterson Commanding
Medical Supply Depot
Bay Pharmacies Inc.
President/CEO
Thomas Voegele Commanding
Medical Supply Depot
Pamida Pharmacy
President/CEO
Jim Thomas Commanding
Vietnam vets send a special THANK YOU to
Pioneer Credit Union's CEO Tom Young,
Wisconsin credit union chapter leaders,
the Wisconsin Credit Union League, and
members of the World Council of Credit
Unions for their financial council and
liquidity management support offered
honor riders traveling to LZ Lambeau
from across the country and around the
world.
Wisconsin Credit Unions
resupplied
our
M.P.C
and Green Backs?
We
enlisted the support of the
world credit union movement.
FYI: The Door County
Community Credit Union,
organized in Egg Harbor,
Wisconsin is now a branch of
the Pioneer Credit Union
located two blocks due south
of LZ Lambeau. Pioneer CU
joined our "Unified" command
to mentor our Chiefs of
Finance. This helped ensure
all internationally
recommended internal, audit,
and collection control
procedures were followed.
They also consulted on
security and safety with our
Planning, Operation, and
Logistic Chiefs.
Thank you
"Lambeau Credit Union"
in
Tobago, West Indies. We
salute them from "Lambeau
Field" the home of the World
Champion Green Bay Packers!
My promise made - is a
promise kept!
Rich Woldt
Thank you
International
Credit Union
Risk Managers in
Scotland,
Ireland,
England, Poland,
Jamaica, South
Korea and
beyond...
for observing
and benchmarking
our ability to
move a segment
of our
population out
of harms way
when faced with
a natural
disaster,
terrorist
attack, or
pandemic
requiring a mass
evacuation or
the need to
segment our
population.
The origin of the “Battlefield Cross”
The origin of the “Battlefield Cross” dates
back to before the Civil War, to a time when
fallen soldiers, in the heat of battle, were
buried on the battlefield.
The fallen soldier’s
rifle with bayonet attached
would be stuck at the head of the grave and
their helmet placed on top to identify the
soldier. After the battle was won, their
comrades in arms would return and conduct
what’s now become the traditional graveside
service, to include placing a makeshift
headstone and flag to mark the grave, firing
a “three-shot” volley over the grave, and
starting during the Civil War, the playing
of Taps.
The hour before each monthly
meeting is devoted to a "Post' Social Hour"
at which time we invite veterans from across
Wisconsin, to stop by, either in person or
zoom-in from around the world. Depending on
what's on the upcoming agenda and how many
members zoom-in, we might call our meeting to
order early, confirm we have a Post' quorum and
conduct business that needs to be done. Post'
committees often get together during the social
to go over their reports that'll be given during
the upcoming meeting. Committee reports taken
out of our monthly minutes posted below:
We're "Benchmarking" our project
to upgrade and deploy our fund raising food trailer
sometime this summer.
FYI: Our food trailer will play an important
role in our project to build and deploy, what's been
dubbed "M*A*S*H
4257",a "Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital" fashioned after M*A*S*H 4077 made famous
after the Korean War. "Benchmarking compares where a
project is compared to where we planned it to be in
April 2025, so newly elected officers will be
ready to hit the ground running, when they're sworn
in at our May 6th meeting.
Please understand! In November 2023, we
thought we were going to have to fold our post and sell our
food trailer. At a minimum, whether we folded the
post or not, we thought we had to take the food
trailer off our balance sheet, in order to avoid any
liability arising from its use.
That turned out not to be true. So, we voted
to rebuild the food trailer to pass Wisconsin' Department of Health
inspections, which include having an approved hand
washing stand on-board. In addition, we formulated a
plan to make sure every time the trailer was
deployed, it would be deployed under the
command of a 501c3 organization that carried an appropriate liability policy in force. At
this point, we'll continue to hold the title to the food
trailer and once M*A*S*H 4257 is ready to roll, VFW
Post 8337 will purchase liability insurance through
the VFW Department of Wisconsin, to make sure all
liability exposures will be covered.
We'll report the results of our
benchmarking in our May news letter!
"Hand someone
a loaf of bread
and you'll feed
them for a day"
"Teach them
to plant wheat
and you'll feed
them for a
lifetime"
Phase 1
In phase 1,
we're building a
"fund-raising"
soup kitchen to
be used by any
501c3
organization,
such as the
Green Bay
diocese "Knights of
Columbus"
and the
"Fish Creek Rod
and Gun Club"operating north
of the 45th
parallel, on
Wisconsin's Door
County Peninsula. Phase
1 is fashioned
after how the
Packers use
Lambeau Field to
support 501c3
organizations,
such as the
Knights of
Columbus in the
Green Bay
diocese. The
Packers provide
the venue and
the well
equipped food
stand along with
training for all
volunteers and
than make a
donation to the
Green Bay
diocese, to be
distributed
pro-rata to
councils, based
on the number of
volunteer hours
provided.
Phase 2
In Phase
2, we build
and fully equip
a "Mobile Army
Surgical
Hospital"
that'll stand
mission ready to
deploy during
any large-scale,
life-threatening
event, such as
during during a
terrorist attack
or any
natural or man
made disaster.
Phase 3
In Phase
3, we build
an appropriate
shelter, large
enough to house
the trailer and
all associated
assets including
grills, tables
and chairs,
tent, first aid
supplies, etc.
The building
should be
designed and
large enough to
house not only
the trailer, but
an army jeep and
passenger wagon
to be used in
parades. You
should be able
to drive in one
end and out the
other.
Driveways,
leading up to
and from the
building should
be plowed in
winter and kept
free of
obstructions
during the
summer.
Midwest Conference (Oshkosh Friday
February 14 - Saturday February): The results of a
statewide survey asking what needs to be done to
increase membership in the VFW, concluded: We need
to involve families in everything we do, including
children during our poppy drives and when placing
flags on veteran cemeteries over Memorial Day
weekend. We also learned to prioritize our fund
raising projects and focus our
"Relief" fund' donations, as direct as
possible, to our Post' veterans in need.
Consequently, we're going publish
the list of donations recommended by the VFW, as
well as identify veterans from Door County currently
at the
Wisconsin Veteran Home at King and
at our
National Home.
We're also creating a "Hot-line" between our post
and chaplains at
King and our
National Home.
What's most important to our aging vets?
It turns out, it's opportunities to socialize with like minded veterans
at a scheduled time. Period! This agrees with
the national survey conducted by AARP where they
listed five needs for the veterans to prioritize (money,
shelter, family,
food and the ability to
socialize with their fellow veterans).
Consequently, we're
going to double down on holding a "social hour
before and after our meetings. We're also going to
reconnect with our fellow vets, who have a common
interest such as the
VFW Riders. We're also looking into zooming
veterans at
King
and at our
National Home into our fund raising events via
the World-wide-web.
After the convention, we placed
our order for 500 Poppies, we'll handout over
the 4th of July weekend. We also ordered membership
enrollment cards we'll be handing out to any
potential VFW Post 8337 member living, working,
retiring or vacationing in summer in Door County.
At our November 2023 meeting
we launched a business plan to draw down our assets,
to a point at which, if we were not able to recruit
new members, north of the 45th parallel (a line
running between Egg Harbor and Jacksonport) we'd
either merge Liberty Grove's Post 8337 into Sturgeon
Bay's Post 8388 or close our post.
No matter what path we followed,
if we keep our food trailer on our balance sheet,
as a requirement of all
501c3 organizations, we have to carry a liability policy,
incase we use the trailer. That police for a one
time use (Fall Festival) would be roughly $250.
We first sent a request to Al Johnson's, with the
understanding that, if our post recovered, we'd be
able to transfer it back onto our balance sheet
sometime in the future. The Johnson
family agreed to do everything they could to support
our post, but preferred not to own the trailer.
We next attempted to transfer the
trailer off our balance sheet over to the
Liberty Grove Fire Department. That offer was
brought up at their January board meeting and
according to the grape vine has also been turned
down.
Our third attempt transfers
ownership of the trailer off our balance sheet over to the
Sister Bay council of the Knights of Columbus for
the following reasons:
All Knights of Columbus councils, as
are both VFW Post 8337 and American Legion Post 527,
as well as AMVET Post 51, are 501c3 organizations,
required to carry an event liability policy.
The vast majority, if not all of the
Knights of Columbus councils in the Green Bay
Diocese have in their membership, veterans who also
belong to one or more of the veteran organizations
in the 8th Congressional District of Wisconsin.
Consequently, transferring our
food trailer off our balance sheet, over to the northern most
Knight of Columbus council in
the Green Bay Diocese, the trailer will be
available to be used by all veteran organizations
and Knights of Columbus councils in the Green Bay
diocese. In fact, it could be made available to any
501c3 organizations, with proof of a bound
liability police.
We've known it for generations."Experience is our greatest teacher." When it
comes to managing the terrorist risks we all now
face, thanks to four years of open borders
Now that our borders are closed, we
can focus on managing the
"Pure" risks and
"Trauma"
created by four years of
flying mentally ill prisoners and not vetted
potential terrorists, into the heart land of America.
We've known it for generations, "Experience is our
greatest teacher" so we're immediately
turning to retired law enforcement, firefighters,
1st responders and emergency management personnel,
to prepare American for the next
homegrown terrorist attack.
There's no time to waist, so
we're mobilizing veterans already embedded in key
segments of our society to teach
"Situational Awareness"
skills to those responsible for
organizing festivals and
"Executive/Self Protection"
protocols, to those responsible for
organizing parades.
We're ramping up our efforts to
teach
"Risk Management"
and
"Trauma Management"
through veteran
organizations across
Wisconsin. Much depends on who's elected on January
6th. We'll continue to focus our attention on
preventing terrorist attacks until our borders are
secure and known terrorist now in-country have been
removed.
Note:
Whether we're managing
risks created by the
wildfires burning in
Californiaor the
risks created by
Putin using an
"Electromagnetic Pulse"to shut down segments of
the
US
Power Grid.
our,
"Risk Management"
methods remain the same. We
first identify and measure the "Pure" risks created
by our open borders and than, in order, we do what
we can to "Avoid - Reduce - Spread - Assume each
risk identified, before we "Transfer" the remaining
risk through hold-harmless agreements and/or
insurance.
This again underscores our need
to ramp up our training in the private-sector,
so all segments of the "Private" sector know exactly
what they should and should not do, before, during
and after any long-term, life threatening event.
Respectfully Submitted:
VFW Post 8337 Quartermaster - Richard Woldt
FYI: I took my
SWAT training with the department
that responded to the call. My nice
taught at this school for 10 years.
Her uncle was at the school, when a
fifteen year old, female student,
carrying a 9mm pistol shoot a
substitute teacher and than herself.
I received my SWAT training certification, with
the Madison' PD SWAT team that responded to the
shooting.
This again underscores our need
to ramp up our training in the private-sector,
so students, teachers and school administrators know
what to do and what to expect, during an active
shooting event.
We can't wait to meet each month to
vote on buying the CB system for our M*A*S*H 4257. I
recommend we vote to set aside $5,000, so we can
purchase the CB radios, as soon as possible. This
includes the base radio, as well as, a variety of
handheld radios we can field test between January
and our April meeting, when we'll purchase the
radios in cooperation with the Liberty Grove/Sister
Bay Fire Department.
Respectfully Submitted:
VFW Post 8337 Quartermaster - Richard Woldt
There's no time
to waist. We need to get MASH 4257
ready to role.
We were planning to finish
equipping MASH 4257-k,
before the end of the year and
hold off rolling it out until
April 2025, but it's becoming
increasingly obvious, it would
foolhardy to wait. It looks like
Putin is going to make his move
before Trump is back in office.
It's a better than even bet
they're going to take down our
electric grid and terminate our
critical communication links.
Underwater communication cabals
between NATO allies have already
been cut.
Excerpts taken from August and September 2024
minutes:
August 2024
Unfinished “Old” business:
We discussed why we were drawing
down the asset in our post, which
simply adds up to, what inevitably
appears to be at time, probably at
our April 2025 meeting that we’ll
fold the post.
11)New Business:
A motion was made, seconded and past
after a brief discussion to transfer
our food trailer, grill and all
associated equipment over to the
Liberty Grove Fire Department. A
motion was made, seconded and past
to purchase a generator that will
also be turned over to the Liberty
Grove Fire Department at some future
date. A motion was made, seconded
and passed to purchase one
“Tombstone Jack” that will also be
given over to either the Door County
Historical Society or the Egg Harbor
Fire Department. Click here for more
information.Click here
for more information
Tombstonejack.com.
12)Good of the Order
We have three options. We can either
grow the post so we have a full
slate of officers able to fill our
roster on or before our April 2025
meeting, or we “fold-the-post”. Our
mission, whether we like it or not,
is to draw down all assets in our
post, to a point at which we’ll vote
at our April 2025 meeting to
transfer what can and should be
transferred to VFW Post 3088 in
Sturgeon Bay and alert/assist our
members to transfer their membership
to the post of their choice. In the
meantime, we will fulfill all our
duties as a post, to include
standing ready to post the colors,
march in parades, take party in the
November 11, 2024 “Veteran’s Day”
program, etc. Reference the decision
to fold or merge our post into Post
3088:
a.Both options will include the
following:
i.
We surrender our charter,
turn over our flags to the State VFW
and return our guns to the Army.
b.
We liquidate
both our general fund (Checking
account) and our “Relief Account”.
c.
We sell-donate-transfer our physical
assets,
to include selling or donating our
food trailer and grill along with
all associated equipment.
We passed our
inspection with almost flying
colors, noting our post continues to
struggle with recruiting younger
member, qualified to join the VFW.
Following are excerpts from our
monthly minutes:
VFW Post 8337
Meeting DATE: September 3, 2024
1)Meeting called to order at: 7
P.M.
2)Opening pray was said
followed by The Pledge of
Allegiance!
3)Adjutant called the roll:
Commander, Quartermaster, Trustee, 2
members present, one Zoomed in
during the meeting. Total of 6 plus
on guest (Bruce Sorenson conducted
our annual audit and we passed).
10)
Unfinished “Old” business:
We discussed our game plan for
growing the post to a point all post
officers can be replaced by younger
veterans in our filed of membership.
We also talked about what has to be
done, if and when, we decide to
“fold-the-post”. All member need to
be involved, to include receiving a
written notice allowing them time to
respond.
12)Good of the Order: Bruce
Sorenson gave his “Inspection
Report” and offered suggestions
going forward.
He emphasized, whatever we do, we
have to inform our entire membership
and give them enough time to voice
their opinion and cast their vote.
We have two options. We can either
just “fold-the-post” or merge our
entire post, to include our
membership into VFW Post 3088 in
Sturgeon Bay.
a.Both options include the
following:
i.
We surrender our charter,
turn over our flags to the State VFW
and return our guns to the Army.
b.
We liquidate
both our general fund (Checking
account) and our “Relief Account”.
c.
We sell our physical assets,
to include selling or donating our
food trailer and grill along with
all associated equipment.
13)We had closing ceremony and
closing prayer.
Meeting adjourned at 8:10.
14)Next meeting will be on
October 1st at the
Liberty Grove Town hall.
Respectfully Submitted:
VFW Post 8337 Quartermaster - Richard Woldt
Keep their contact
information (Email address,
Snail mail address, Cell phone
#, etc) up to date.
Note:
Our
primary contact is either
through your cell phone or
email. You receive all
newsletters and meeting
notifications via our website:
www.doorcountyveterans.com
Report your concealed carry
qualifications, to include
your concealed carry permit #
and the weapon you prefer to
carry, etc.
Contact
your fellow Post 8337 members
and ask them to update their
information. Direct them to
our website.
Special Operations: During
large-scale, life-threatening
events, searches for a missing
person or when the scope of an event
(scope-creep) overwhelms "public
sector" (Emergency Management - Law
Enforcement - Fire Department -
Search and Rescue, etc) resources,
you might be called on to assist.
For example, during a mass
evacuation or during recovery from a
natural disaster, such as a
hurricane, tornado, earthquake, etc.
Please comment on the following:
Are you a "certified"
medical professional?
Do you own and know how to
hookup and operate a "portable"
generator?
Do you belong to a bike club
and have you ever performed as a
"road-guard" during a bike ride?
Most
veteran organizations are chartered to
support veterans, who served during a particular time in
our history; or for those
who share a common bond. For example,
the American
Legion was founded in 1919to
support war weary veterans from WW1.
A
"Risk Management" Strategic Action Plan
(SAP) for moving forward in 2025
I
share this because, like it or not,
we're on the verge of WW3 and sitting
ducks for the next homegrown terrorist
attack.
The
Strategic Action Plan (SAP) I propose
uses the
"Incident Command System (ICS)"
in Door County to support a "Public to
Private Partnership that'll guard before
and stand mission ready to respond
during any large scale, life threatening
event on the Door County peninsula.
Whether we hold onto our Post 8337
charter or merge our post into Post
3088, we need troops on the ground
in northern Door County (north of the
45th parallel) to support our veterans
while on active duty and stand mission
ready to hit the ground running during
any large scale, life threatening event.
M*A*S*H - k will stand
"mission ready" to deploy,
anytime any large scale, life
threatening event overwhelms
firefighters and 1st responders on
the Door County peninsula.
M*A*S*H - k will stand "mission
ready" to join any "Public to Private Partnerships
(PPP)" formed between veteran organizations in
the private sector and Townships and
municipalities in the public sector on
the Door County' peninsula
M*A*S*H
- k will stand "mission ready"
to support any "Unified" incident
command, under the direction and
control of the Liberty Grove fire
department.
We're building
and equipping M*A*S*H 4277
from the ground up!
Tires and Wheel Bearings
We're building a food trailer that can
be used by any 501c3 organization, with
proof of bound liability insurance.
It'll be deployed along with the Red
Crosse during any large-scale,
life-threatening event, as well as used
during any fund raising event sponsored
by the Liberty Grove/Sister Bay fire
department and/or VFW Post 8337/American
Legion Post 527).
The tires on our food
trailer need to be replaced,
so M*A*S*H #4257 is
ready to roll state/countrywide
under all weather conditions.
According to Scott at S&R, it might
be better to clean and repack the
wheel bearings. The original bearing
are no doubt better quality and the
odds they're worn out is remote.
Note Tim Coshart's estimate on tires
can be put on next to S&R and
they'll take the trailer over next
door to S&R.
AC and DC Power
Supply
We're equipping
M*A*S*H 4257 with a "duel"
mode generator that'll handle at least
three coffee pots (One for regular and
one for decaf coffee and one for hot
chocolate) plus and four
NESCO Roasters, one microwave, etc.
The generator is rated high enough to
handles two charging station, one inside
and one outside the trailer for public
use.
When it comes to which
radios are recommended,
We strongly recommend
establishing a committee to
take on-line courses that
keep both public and private
sectors up to date, as this
industry is constantly
changing.
We should establish a
standard quality (Mid tier)
and communication "range"
(Up to 15 to 20 miles)
for all "Public-sector"
base stations (Base stations
should be located at the
fire department, preferably
in the overnight rest area,
where it's easily
monitored.). CB companies do
provide training and
education programs for
companies, police and fire
departments. We will be
field-testing as we learn
more about this area.
In phase 1,
we're building a
"fund-raising"
soup kitchen to
be used by any
501c3
organization,
such as the
"Knights of
Columbus"
operating north
of the 45th
parallel, on
Wisconsin's Door
County
Peninsula. Phase
1 is fashioned
after how the
Packers use
Lambeau Field to
support 501c3
organizations,
such as the
Knights of
Columbus in the
Green Bay
diocese. The
Packers provide
the venue and
the well
equipped food
stand along with
training for all
volunteers and
than make a
donation to the
Green Bay
diocese, to be
distributed
pro-rata to
councils, based
on the number of
volunteer hours
provided.
Phase 2
In Phase
2, we build
and fully equip
a "Mobile Army
Surgical
Hospital"
that'll stand
mission ready to
deploy during
any large-scale,
life-threatening
event, such as
during any
natural or man
made disaster.
Phase 3
In Phase
3, we build
an appropriate
shelter, large
enough to house
the trailer and
all associated
assets including
grills, tables
and chairs,
tent, first aid
supplies, etc.
The building
should be
designed and
large enough to
house not only
the trailer, but
an army jeep and
passenger wagon
to be used in
parades. You
should be able
to drive in one
end and out the
other.
Driveways,
leading up to
and from the
building should
be plowed in
winter and kept
free of
obstructions
during the
summer.
Toward the end of 2023, it became
increasingly obvious, if we didn't
enlist younger members into our Post, at some point in
2024, we'd have to shut the Post down.
If we closed the doors and God forbid AL
527 also shut down, there'd be no Post
on the mainland, north of the 45th
parallel to place flags on veteran
graves, post the colors or support our
veterans in need, north of the 45th
parallel. At this point, God only knows
what's going to happen in April.
The
average age of our members in VFW Post
8337 will soon be over 80. I turn 80
on April 21st. It's getting almost
impossible for us to muster the troops
needed to set up, let alone run our food
trailer during Fall Festival in Sister
Bay. If we keep the trailer on our
balance sheet, we're required to carry a
$250 liability police, that limits us to
a one time use each year.
The
average age of members in American
Legion Post 527 is about the same.
The average age of members in AMVET Post
51 is somewhat younger, but they too are
having a hard time recruiting younger
members. FYI: I'm a member of all three
posts.
Both AL Post 527 and AMVET
Post 51, as well as all
501.3c organizations,
Knights of Columbus
included, are required to
carry liability insurance.
Your agent, Philip Schmitz
and I are both 4th degree
Knights in Sturgeon Bay's
Knights of Columbus Council
#2478, so we've been able to
talk through all this in
some detail. The premiums
for our VFW Post 8337 were
based on the number of
events scheduled each year,
which means we were paying
$250 just for Fall Festival.
Your premium, I think it's
roughly $400 is based on the
number of customers served.
Talk to Phil, but I suspect
your using the trailer one
time during Fall Festival
wouldn't result in any
additional premium. I share
this only for your
information, as any
additional premium would
easily be absorbed as a cost
of doing business.
Following is a
win-win-win-win game plan for
veterans north of the 45th parallel on
the Door County Peninsula. It's a win
for all Door County veterans, as well
as, our VFW Post 8337 and American
Legion Post 527, as well as all Knights
of Columbus councils in the Green Bay
Diocese. As an active veteran in all
three Posts, I will make a commitment,
starting after my birthday April 21st to
installing all new tires on the trailer.
Post 8337 will also install a duel mode
generator so the trailer will be ready
to operate anytime and anywhere it's
needed.
More important to the
Knights of Columbus as well as, all
the veterans in the Green Bay Diocese,
as well as all VFW, American Legion and
AMVET members statewide, I will, we will
launch a first class Mobile Army
Surgical Hospital M*A*S*H 4257 Mock 4
(Remember our 4th Degree obligation is
to support patriotic projects throughout
the year) do somethat will stage mission
ready to respond to any large scale,
life threatening event, to include a
home grown terrorist attack, natural or
man-made disaster and/or World War 3.
We're building a food trailer that can
be used to raise Mobile soup kitchen
that can be used abe deployed along with the Red
Crosse during any large-scale,
life-threatening event, as well as used
during any fund raising event sponsored
by the Liberty Grove/Sister Bay fire
department and/or VFW Post 8337/American
Legion Post 527)
The tires on our
food trailer need to be replace so
M*A*S*H #4257 is ready to roll
state/countrywide under all weather
conditions.
We purchased a "duel"
mode generator that'll handle at least
three coffee pots (One for regular and
one for decaf coffee and one for hot
chocolate) plus and four
Nesco roasters, a microwave, etc. Charging station are located both inside and outside
M*A*S*H 4257-k
When it comes to which
radios are recommended,
We strongly recommend
establishing a committee to
take on-line courses that
keep both public and private
sectors up to date, as this
industry is constantly
changing.
We should establish a
standard quality (Mid tier)
and communication "range"
(Up to 15 to 20 miles)
for all "Public-sector"
base stations (Base stations
should be located at the
fire department, preferably
in the overnight rest area,
where it's easily
monitored.). CB companies do
provide training and
education programs for
companies, police and fire
departments. We will be
field-testing as we learn
more about this area.
Our "Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital” M*A*S*H 4257 should be resupplied and
properly equipped prior to each
deployment.
ll personnel should be
“logged-in”
and trained prior to each
deployment. For Example: During a
fund-raising deployment the soup
served should vary from recipes for chicken bulla
in Brussels to white fish chowder in
Jacksonport.
All personnel must be
properly identified and “Logged-in”
prior to each deployment. They must
be able to be covered by Worker’s
Compensation as well as
pre-authorized access into
designated Incident Command’ posts
and pre-authorized to take part in
any “Unified” commands deployed
Always
place the “fish and trap resistant”
safe on a table, changed down, so
it’s available for tips and
donations.
Briefing: M*A*S*H 4257 “The
Shadow” – 12/31/2024 - New Year’s
2025
M*A*S*H 4257 “The
Shadow” will be deployed at day
break 12/31/2024 and staged across
the street facing the Bowl, in
downtown Sister Bay.
It’ll be equipped with
50 cup coffee makers and enough Door
County coffee to serve up to 3,000
overly intoxicated adults, assembled
to watch the drop. It’s recommended
to serve “Hot” coffee, but please
remember the Liebeck vs. McDonald's
law suite”.
Charge for coffee up
until the drop, but after Mid-night
the coffee should be free,
compliments of your Liberty Grove
Fire and Rescue personnel on duty.
NESCO rosters will be
plugged in and ready to roll as soon
as soon as the crowds begin to
gather during the day.
Swedish’ chicken soup
is
recommended, prepared at Al’s and
delivered warm to “The Shadow”
throughout the day.
CB radios should be
located in Al’s kitchen near the
dishwasher, where it can be heard
and easily monitored by more than
one person.
All M*A*S*H 4257
“logged-in” personnel should be
carrying hand held CB radios
throughout the day, tuned to the
station being monitored by Liberty
Grove Fire and Rescue.
FYI:
There is a
proposal, written into the MASH 4257
“Incident Command System (ICS) plan,
to install a live camera monitoring
system throughout the Village so
veterans around the world can
celebrate with their family and
fellow vets via the live camera feed
mounted on top the Sister Bay Bowl
Consider building the Shadow as an
exercise similar to our parents and
grand parents went through, working
at Bay Ship. You may not fully
appreciate what you’re doing or the
impact it’ll have on our troops on
the frontline, or the connection
it’ll afford them while deployed in
harms way, or the safe haven it’ll
afford them when they return home,
but rest assured it’ll provide them
with a sense of being in control.
And that may well be all it takes to
get through the next World
CC: Liberty Grove
Town Supervisors Nancy Goss, Dan
Watts, Cathy Ward and Billy Appel
along with Sister Bay/Liberty Grove
Fire Chief Chris Hecht.
Date: Veterans Day November 11,
2024
Subject: The transfer of VFW Post
8337's food trailer with all relevant
assets off Post 8337 balance sheet
back over to the Township of
Liberty Grove.
Chairman Johnson:
Before going forward, ask your
Town of Liberty Grove Board of
Supervisors, to become familiar with
the
"Mission of Door County' 1st"
Also, ask them to review our
"Mission Statement."
Mission Statement: MASH
4257 is being build and field-tested
using the Incident Command System to
deploy a "Unified" private sector
response anytime the scope or
duration of any large scale, life
threatening event overwhelms the
fire and law enforcement recourses
So we're all on the same page.
We
briefed
Liberty Grove's Town Administrator, Walter "Bud" Kalm,
about the struggle our VFW Post 8337
is having staying afloat. The
average age of our membership is
now over 80 years old. My/our American
Legion Post 527 is facing a similar
challenge with an aging field of
membership. If you saw us march in
this years Fall Festival parade you
saw our VFW Post 8337 commander riding shotgun for
the American Legion Post 527' Senior
Vice Commander followed by our
post's flagmen
and three riflemen. I was the
youngest, hoping to turn 80 on April
21, 2025. The oldest was 86.
We've launched an aggressive
mission to recruit younger members,
to include working with
Gibraltar High School students to
reach veterans currently on active
duty, as well as working with the
Adopt-A-Veteran' project, to identify
active duty veterans, as well as
veterans currently working with fire
departments north of the 45
parallel. FYI, if you don't already
know, divides Door County on a line
roughly from Jackson Port along Hwy
57 and Egg Harbor on Hwy #42. Incase
you haven't heard, "Adopt-A-Veteran" 501.3C,
project in Door County is in the
process of liquidating i.e.
transfering their assets equally
over to surviving veteran'
organizations in Door County.
By transferring our food trailer
out of the "Private sector" i.e. VFW
Post 8337, over the the "Public
sector" i.e. the Sister Bay/Liberty
Grove fire department allows the
trailer to be deployed anywhere in
the county, anytime we're confronted
by a large scale, life threatening
event who's scope or durations
requires a "Unified" private sector
response. If you review our Post'
minutes over the past year, you'll
see how we're investing in, what's
been dubbed MASH 4257. FYI: You can
click on the picture of "Bubba"
(Bruce Hanson) kneeling on the map
of South Vietnam and follow the
motions made and passed to purchase
all that's being build into Door
County's MASH 4257. BTW: Bubba and
Carl T. are pointing to where they
served in Vietnam.
In terms, any Fire Chief can
explain, we're creating a "Public to
Private Partnership" in Door County
that'll stage a mission ready MASH
deployment anytime, at the Fire
Chief's discretion, a mutual-aide
order is activated by
Doorcounty-mabas-ist..com.
If any of this is clear as mud,
talk with either Chris Hetch or
Niles Webor, two of the most well
known and highly respected Fire
Chiefs in the country. I've been
bragging about their professionalism
nation wide.
George was our Guidance
Councilor at Gibraltar
High School back in
the 60's.
That's the 1960's. He knew our dreams
and understood the fear
we shared heading off to
war in Vietnam.
It
was George, Rev. Bill
Shepherd and Gibraltar
High School Principal'
Bill Seeburger, who
prayed in an apple
orchard south of town,
there'd someday be a
"Scandia Village" for
aging veterans from the
Town of Liberty Grove.
We're launching an
operation, we're calling
"Family' Ties"
that'll help identify
veterans, who live or
work on the Door County
peninsula, north of the
45th parallel.
We're asking all
veterans, to get a
"life-time" membership
in the Post closest to
their home and family.
The success of your
Post, will depends on
members being as active
as possible, which means
they're living a short
distance from where they
meet each month
Special
Operations
We populating a search
engine of veterans
buried in Door County
Cemeteries north of the
45th parallel.
BELOW: DOOR
COUNTY CEMETERIES TABLE: Cemetery Pages can
be accessed by clicking on the cemetery
name. Clicking on the Civil Towns will take
you to their pages. Maps showing the
locations of the cemeteries can be accessed
by clicking the Number as well. Some
cemeteries have been updated from the 1970's
Transcriptions anywhere from 1999 to 2009.
The
following are the cemeteries in Door County.
All the 1970's cemeteries indexes are on now
this website. Stones that have digital
photos are linked when possible. The PGS is
in the process of adding digital photos of
stones so please visit this page again in
the future for updates!
PGS
CEMETERY PROJECT= Written transcript
taken of each stone as well as digital
photos-index created or added to old index,
then photos are linked.
PHOTO
SURVEYS=No transcription was taken, just
digital photos of all stones which were then
named-from which an index was created or
added to/changed old index, and then photos
linked.
In addition,
some Obituaries are being added to the
cemetery indexes as the PGS have come across
them. Anyone wishing to contribute
OBITUARIES, please contact the PGS at pengensoc@yahoo.com .
1972-2009 PGS Cemetery
Project-COMPLETE (& some
OBITS)additions/corrections/burials
without monuments or markers from
Shiloh Church Lot & Cemetery
Association (14 Jun 2011-in process)
1972-2009 PGS Cemetery
Project-COMPLETE (& some
OBITS)additions/corrections/burials
without monuments or markers from
Shiloh Church Lot & Cemetery
Association (14 Jun 2011-in process)
1972-2009 PGS Cemetery
Project-COMPLETE (& some OBITS) &
additions/corrections/burials
without monuments or markers from
Shiloh Church Lot & Cemetery
Association (14 Jun 2011-in process)
We teach
"Maslow's Hierarchy of Need"to highlight the
difference between Communism
and free-market Capitalism.
That being Communists rely on the
government to provide all
their "physiological" needs,
while free-market
capitalists rely on
themselves, "Home-rule"and
the
"Bill of Rights" handed down
through generations from our
Founding Fathers.
We also teach
"Personhood"
to promote adoptions as
opposed to relying on abortions.
After over 50 years
teaching Risk Management,
throughout the world credit
union movement, there's a better than
even chance, I'm going
to turn this site over to
the next generation of
battle-hardened veterans on my
80th birthday (April 21,
2025) and launch a series
of Risk Management presentations
that'll be available through
your Credit Union
League/Associations' Director
of Education.
It's been
my passion, pleasure and privilege, to teach
"Risk Management" throughout the
US and
World Credit Union
movement, for over 50 years and
I'm looking forward to the next 50+ years on
the frontlines.
That being
said, I'm more than happy to place a wrap on
our voter-fraud audits, get out of
politics and go back to preparing the
free-world for the next inevitable terrorist
attack.
Now, after
three years of Biden's open borders and
Governors like Toney Evers flying not
vetted immigrants into the the heartland of
Wisconsin, we sitting ducks for the next
homegrown terrorist attack and live with the
growing concern that we're on the brink of
WW3.
We've now
proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, not
only who, but how they altered the
outcome of the 2020 elections in real time.
What we now have to do is layout all the
evidence and teach voters across the county,
what they must do to restore confidence in
the outcome of the November 5, 2024
election.
Following
standard "Risk Management" procedures and
protocols, we're going to take the
voter-fraud that accrued in 72 Wisconsin
counties and "spread" across 12 Wisconsin
credit union chapters. What that does is, it
makes it easier to identify and measure the
risks we now face, as well as take advantage
of corporate' IT professionals and currently
trained and up-to-date, mission ready credit
union Risk Managers to stop the stealing of
the November 5, 2024 election.
One
important lesson I've learned in my 79 years
on God's green earth is, what use to be
a one year 1/2 life of what you learned in
the 70' and 80's is now measured in minutes,
if not seconds. That means the Risk Controls
we come up with today, may vary well be
useless by tomorrow.
The
answers? Mobilize IT professionals in
the US and around the world, using the
Incident Command System and spread their
street-smart wisdom throughout the US and
world credit union movement.
I'm going
to write our Voter-fraud audit report
that'll identify and measure the voter-fraud
we uncovered. My report will explain in
some detail not only what we found, but the
risk management steps we took to lock them
all down. I will make recommendations that I
know would have worked in 2020 to stop the
steal, but God only knows if they'll work
during the campaign leading up to November
5th.
I'll than
turn everything, to include access to our
deep-throat files over to the Filene
Research Institute to bring my
recommendation up to date and add their own.
From time to time, we'll develop Power Point
presentation the Directors of Education
throughout the world credit union movement
can use to stay ahead of those who even now
are plotting to alter the outcome of the
upcoming August elections.
Vietnam Vets across the state thank
NEWBA's President Owen "OB1" Bergwin for
his support and dedication throughout
the LZ Lambeau planning year.
OB1 rode
with Rolling Thunders' 1244 soaked to
the bone in the second wave out of La
Crosse. He worked in the Rolling
Thunders' food stand, attended countless
meetings, and stood with us at every
turn. Thanks OB1! You're a friend of
veterans around the world. Any single
women vacationing in Door County would
be wise to have you as an escort.
THANK YOU
Honor
Riders!
Vietnam Vets
were proud
to ride with
members of
the
TITAN MC and
Door Devil
Motorcycle
Clubs,
Door County's "Ride for
Five" with Rolling
Thunder's 1244 was
ridden by Owen "OB1" Burgwin for Richard
Perez, Eric Peil for Dan Phister, Joe
Rockwell for David Schaefer, Karen
"Finger" Nicholson for Phil Overbeck,
and Michael "Saint Michael" Burgwin for
Randy Wagner.
Door County's "Ride for Five"
was lead by Emmett VanGorver riding
for Randy Wagner, Ken Suess for Dan
Phister, Tim Gauthier for Richard Perez,
Joe Stich for Dave Schaefer and Frank
Mack riding for Phil Overbeck.
.... and with Rolling
Thunder, Patriot Guard, Warriors' Watch and
clubs too many to mention...
In my opinion, terrorists
will be using Electromagnetic generators
in the not too distant future
Up and until now, drones were too
small to carry an"Electromagnetic
pulse"generator, large enough to
shut down
enough of our electric-grid, to
spread panic across the country and
traumatize every red-blooded, man, woman
and child around the world.
If you're appointed to take minutes copy
this "blank" minute form, fill it out on
forward it to your post' secretary,
who'll transcribe it and print copies
for the Commander at the next monthly
meeting. It's acceptable, to email
minutes to your commander but "Only" to
the commander. Call or text the
commander to alert him/her the minutes
have been sent. Always, keep a copy
until the minutes have been read and
approved at the next meeting.
Note:
Each entry is numbered to allow you to
number and expand your minutes on the
blank back side of this form! Please
make sure you sign and date the form
before forwarding it to the commander.
To learn about Federal VA Benefits go to:
www.va.gov
To keep on top of protection our nations
infrastructure, I recommend joining InfraGard, an FBI
public-to-private partnership formed in 1996. Go go:
http://www.infragard.net/
To keep up with terrorist alerts in
Wisconsin, join the Midwest Emergency Response network at:
https://mwern.usp3.org/
We saluted our
legislators too soon.
Click here for
the latest stab-in-the-back by some! Call
your legislator and voice your opinion. NOW!
United We Stand - Divided We Fall -
We Never Fail!
Door County Veterans Stand
Guard at Deaths Door!
Once
a veteran, always a veteran. It's in our blood 24/7, 365 days a
year. Our duty was and always will be to protect, defend, and come to
the aid of anyone in harms way. We never abandoned our post
during WWII, or in Korea, Viet Nam, Desert Storm, Iraq, or at
any time in our county's history. Every where we served we
served with honor and duty to our God and country. We've never
abandoned our post or ignored our duty protect and
defend our homeland.
Our mission
has never and will never change. The purpose of this site is to support
our veterans, reinforce our troops on active, and establish homeland
security' response and recovery partnerships between our public sector
civilian forces (law enforcement, fire fighters, emergency government,
etc.) and our private sector citizens (business associations, schools,
churches, social clubs, etc.).
Refer to your post bulleting board and branch websites for
the latest requests of veterans coming from the highest level of
authority. In summary all branches are asking veterans to get
involved in three areas:
Support active duty solders and
their families,
Reinforce our national guard
troops at home,
Support the public-to-private
homeland security partnerships safeguarding our economic
infrastructures.
For example: Click here for requests comming from the
marine corp commandant...
Our
strategic action plans for 2007 - 2008 include:
Establishing an Internet driven "Role-Call" system we'll use
to enlist post' members and muster our troops during the
next natural disaster, terrorist attack, pandemic, or large
scale community crisis.
Conduct
basic training in Incident Command and Control (ICS) at the
post and district levels.
Enlist
and train veteran' Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTs)
at the post, county, tri-county, and state levels.
Support
Homeland Security (HLS) public-to-private partnerships
designating post' Liaison Officers as coordinators
representing the private sector on Multi Agency Coordination
Teams (MACTs).
Establish
an Internet link between our Wisconsin Department for
Veteran' Affairs, the Army-Air Force National Guard, the
Coast Guard, the Department of Emergency Government and our
veterans on the front lines during any large scale community
crisis or when Door County stands in harms way.
We'll
attempt to create an Internet "Home Page" for each
post in Door County with a link to a "Headquarter Command"
Home Page used as a "pass-through" to veteran resources at
the post, district, state and national levels.
Maintain a Veteran' suggestion wing of our web site!
All veterans should be on board before the next terrorist
attack or large scale community crises. When possible, join the
post nearest your home. Whether you join a post or not, report
in through "Roll-Call" so you'll be alerted to training
opportunities.
All veterans
should be familiar with the VA web site at
www.va.gov. Use this site
to register for veteran benefits, download brochures, etc.
FYI:
There are 10 veteran
organizations in Door County:
Four American Legion posts (Post 72 in
Sturgeon Bay, Post 372 in Maplewood, Post 527 in Sister Bay, and
Post 402 on Washington Island), three Veteran of Foreign War
(VFW) posts (Liberty Grove Post 8337, Fish Creek Post 9290, and
Sturgeon Bay post 3088), one AMVET Post 51 in Sturgeon Bay, one
Marine Corp League Detachment 1130 in Sturgeon Bay and the
Cooties Post 43 in Sturgeon Bay.
There is
a three
member "Veterans Commission" appointed by the Door County Board of
Supervisors that hires a "Veteran's Service Officer" (CVSO) to administer veterans
affairs at the county level. There is also a "Veteran's Council" made up of
two representatives from each post.
Please note:
"I do all my own web design and maintenance so please excuse
links that don't work, shots that miss their targets, and
opinions that sound like orders. There are no guarantees in
combat. I was trained
to be an army grunt, not a computer geek! "
Rich Woldt
Lifetime Member of VFW Post
#8337
and AMVET post 51 and member of American Legion Post 527.
Rich Woldt
Viet Nam 68 - 70Member:
VFW :Post 8337, AMVET Post 51, and
AL Post 527
Uncle
Sam Needs YOU!
Terrorists threaten our way of
life!
Columbine styled attacks
strike close to home!
Tornados and wildfires are
annual events!
We're not immune to pandemics!
Children go missing, gangs
roam our back roads, crooks hide in our homes, drug dealers deal in
our orchards, drunks keep driving, pedophiles move into our county,
terrorist case our community, and every-once-and-a-while we blow up
a local landmark.
All veterans are urged to join a
veteran post near their home. To better protect and defend our homeland
while supporting our local emergency government, law enforcement, fire
fighters, active military, and homeland security professionals, we're
going to offer Incident Command and Control training to include "basic
training" in...
How to take command and control of
a crime scene until authorities arrive,
How to provide "appropriate first
aide for heart attacks and burn victims until the EMTs arrive,
How to provide protection
for terrorist targets during a parade or community festival,
How locate, lockdown, link, and
extracate a target during an attack,
How to conduct a bomb threat
assessment and search,
How to report suspicious activity
to proper authorities (i.e. through 911, InfraGard (FBI),
County Social Services, etc.),
And much, much, more!
To make sure you and your family are "mission-ready" before the
next community crisis, join the veteran post of your choice today!
Veteran Suggestions Wing - Periodically vets email suggestions we'll
pass on through this wing-of-our-web-site... Note below!
Roy "Decker" Woldt reports in from Pampa Texas
click
here
From Jeff Bastar VFW Post 8337 -Attend the superstore in
Janesville on May 12, 2007 click here
Col Dick Davis tribute to Storming Hank Gorman
click here
Veteran Michael Orban asked us to post a link to his site. He's
reaching out to vets with PTSD
click here.
Post Commanders 2007 - 3008
Uncle Sam not only wants, he
needs you to help protect your homeland AND hometown!
CC: Liberty Grove
Town Supervisors Nancy Goss, Dan
Watts, Cathy Ward and Billy Appel
along with Sister Bay/Liberty Grove
Fire Chief Chris Hecht.
Date: December 3, 2024
Subject: Our need to get our VFW Post
8337's food trailer with all relevant
assets off our Post 8337' balance sheet
and transfer it over to the Township of
Liberty Grove and subsequently to
our Liberty Grove/Sister Bay Fire
Department.
Chairman Johnson:
Much like our Sister Bay,
American Legion Post 527, a Post to
which I also belong,
our VFW
Post 8337 has been struggling over
the past ten years to recruit
younger members into our post. We
got to a point back in
September of 2023, when we felt, it
might be time to surrender our
charter back through the 8th District to
the State Commander of the Wisconsin
VFW.
The average age of our membership
is trending our 80 years old. If you saw
us march in this years Fall Festival
parade you saw our VFW Post 8337
commander riding shotgun for the
American Legion Post 527' Senior
Vice Commander, followed by our
post's flagmen and three riflemen. I
was the youngest, at 79, soon to
turn 80 on April 21, 2025. The
oldest rifleman marching was 86.
While we continue to search for
new ways to recruit new and younger
members, we all agreed it was
time to come up with a business plan
that would drawdown our liquid
assets (money in our checking and
relief accounts, as well as funds
held by our Auxiliary). The
challenge came, when we had to come
up with a plan to get our food
trailer and all associated assets
(the gas grill, etc.) off our
balance sheet. If we didn't get the
food trailer off our balance sheet,
we'd be required to carry an annual
$250 liability policy, even though
the odds of it ever being used again
is slim-to-non.
The business plan we've adopted,
invests money in our checking
account into a project that converts
our food trailer into a "Mobile Army
Surgical Hospital" we've dubbed
M*A*S*H 4257. It's going to be
equipped and mission ready to
reinforce our Liberty Grove/Sister
Bay Fire Department anytime they're
overwhelmed by a large-scale, life
threatening event, such as a
homegrown'
terrorist attack, a natural
disaster, major fire, missing person
search or mass casualty accident .
M*A*S*H 4257,
is being built to support the Public
to Private Partnerships that were formed by Wisconsin's Department of Emergency
Management, the Department of
Homeland Security, the FBI and
Secret Service shortly after the
9-11-01 terrorist attacks in New
York City.
It's also being
built and equipped to pass all state
inspections, so it can be used
to raise funds for our Liberty
Grove/Sister Bay Fire Departments
and someday, hopefully again by our Post
VFW Post 8337, during Fall Festival,
just like we've done for close to 40
years.
Please have your
entire Town Board, go to
www.doorcountyveterans.com and
read our "Strategic Action Plan" and
you'll see, this is going to be a
win-win-win for the Town of Liberty
Grove and all veteran organizations
north of the 45th parallel. With
God's blessing and younger veterans
willing to step-up to the plate,
we'll all be back to cooking brats
and serving soup to support our Liberty
Grove firefighters and veterans
across the State for
many years to come.
God Bless our Liberty Grove Town
Board and God Bless America.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Past Commander - Current
Quartermaster
Liberty Grove VFW Post 8337
Richard A. Woldt
PS: We've launched an aggressive
mission to recruit younger members,
to include working with
Gibraltar High School students to
reach veterans currently on active
duty, as well as working with the
Adopt-A-Veteran' project, to identify
active duty veterans, as well as
veterans currently working with fire
departments north of the 45
parallel. The 45th parallel divides Door County on a line
that runs roughly from Jackson Port
on Hwy
57 to Egg Harbor on Hwy #42.
FYI: The "Adopt-A-Veteran" 501.3C,
project in Door County is in the
process of liquidating i.e. transferring their assets equally
over to surviving veteran'
Post's in Door County.
By transferring our food trailer
out of the "Private sector"
i.e. VFW
Post 8337, over the the "Public
sector" i.e. the Sister Bay/Liberty
Grove Fire Department, allows the
trailer to be deployed anywhere in
the county, anytime we're confronted
by a large scale, life threatening
event, who's scope or durations
requires a "Unified" private sector
response.
If you review our Post'
minutes over the past year, you'll
see how we're investing in, what's
been dubbed MASH 4257. FYI: You can
click on the picture of "Bubba"
(Bruce Hanson) kneeling on the map
of South Vietnam and follow the
motions made and passed to purchase
all that's being build into Door
County's MASH 4257. Bye the way, Bubba and
Carl T. are pointing to where they
served in Vietnam.
In terms, all
Fire Chiefs can explain, we're creating a "Public to
Private Partnership" in Door County
that'll stage our "mission ready" M*A*S*H
4257 anywhere, anytime a mutual-aide
order is activated by
Doorcounty-mabas-ist..com.
So where do we
begin? We'll start by helping
your Town Board organize your own
"Critical Incident Response Team"
lead by the Liberty Grove Town Board
Chairman:
Click here
and study
How do you form a
Critical Incident Response Teamfor a number of helpful
tutorials.
Thanks in advance for anything
you and your board can do to help
our county prepare for the next
large-scale, life-threatening event
on the Door County peninsula. I can
always be reached at 608-712-7880.
Reality Check
Click here
and read the
"Red Alert"
we posted back-in September 2023!
Open
borders, sanctuary cities, and
"movements to defund our police", have weakened our defense, emboldened
our enemies. We're now sitting ducks for
the next terrorist' attack and at the
brink of
"WW3".
It's time to wake up to reality, rebuild the troop-strength in our
veteran organizations and stand
mission-ready to guard against the next homegrown terrorist
attack.
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We've dubbed them the "Prayer Warriors"of our Green Bay Diocese. They're on a mission to enlist the next generation of God's children into the Catholic' priesthood. Keep the "Fiat" Society in your thoughts and prayers.
The "Outstand
Post' Special Project Award"
will be given to the
students at Gibraltar
High School, who
organized the
"Flagship" project
to place flags on
all veteran graves
on the Door County
Peninsula north of
the 45th parallel.
As of
March 2025, our
VFW Post 8337
cemetery
committee
hasidentified the
cemetery
"Sexton" for
all cemeteries
north of the
45th parallel,
on the Door
County
Peninsula,
including
Washington
Island.
Our cemetery committee is now
developing a
plan that'll
annually
update cemetery
maps and
assemble
scout' troops,
Gibraltar school
district'
students, church
clergy,
chaplains and
funeral home
personnel with children/grandchildren
of veteran'
families (0800
hours, Saturday
one week before
Memorial Day
weekend) at
Blossomburg
Cemetery
(Peninsula State
Park - Fish
Creek,
Wisconsin) and
place flags on
all veteran
grave sites,
on the Door County peninsula north of the
45th parallel.
This is a
"Risk Management Learning Center"
site, originally launched in 1980 and again
on the first anniversary of the
9/11/01 terrorist attack in New York
City. It was launched on a five year mission
to stage public-to-private partnerships
mission-ready to respond anytime a life
threatening event overwhelmed public sectors
assets (law enforcement, fire fighters,
emergency management personnel etc.
Please understand, I do not
speak for any of the veteran
organizations, to which I
belong.
I
speak only as a veteran, who wants
only to
make sure we'll always have
boots on the ground ready to
secure our borders,
honor our fallen and fight
to restore the
freedom and independence lost,
during the past four years.
FYI:I was born, in Door County, April 21, 1945, five
days before, as my father told me, Adolf Hitler died
on
April 30, 1945. I grew up
knowing my dad (Roland
August "Fritz" Woldt) had
something to do with both me
being born and Hitler
choosing to die. FYI:
I do all my own website
design and maintenance, so
if links don't work,
suck-it-up and scroll down
through the pages.
"It's time we stand up and fight to pass our
"priority" legislations!"
Over 400 members of the VFW - American
Legion and Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
gathered at Wisconsin's Capitol in Madison,
frustrated by the lack of action on priority
legislation that's been repeatedly kicked
down the road year after year!
They landed chanting "This is OUR house" and
"All we're asking is for you
to pass our "priority"
legislation"
They hit the ground running
with "Talking Points" to
share and a path to follow
forward:
M*A*S*H 4257 Uses
the same business
model used by the
Packers at Lambeau
Field
"We launched an
operation to
build and equip a
"Mobile Army
Surgical Hospital"
dubbed "M*A*S*H 4257
and staged it in
northern Door
County. The entire
operation is
fashioned after how
the Green Bay
Packers use Lambeau
Field to man the
stands during a home
game. They provide
the venue i.e. the
game and the food
courts and then
reach out to Knights
of Columbus in the
Green Bay Diocese to
provide the
staffing, during
fundraising events."
The vast
majority of veteran
organizations
are volunteer
(501c3)
organizations,
chartered to serve a
specific era, in a
defined "theater of
operation.
Consequently, as
time passes and
members age, it
becomes increasingly
difficult to muster
the able bodied
personnel needed to
staff the
fundraising brat
stands and food
trailers, not to
mention, maintain
the equipment so
it'll pass
inspection by state
health department.
For example,
back in the 50's and
early 60's there
were three VFW posts
(3088 in Sturgeon
Bay, 9290 in Fish
Creek and 8337 in
Liberty Grove/Sister
Bay). There were
five American Legion
posts, one AMVET
Post 51 and two
Marine Corp League
detachments.
We did a
"reality check" on
all veteran
organizations in
Door County, to
include the "Adopt A
Veteran"
organization that
folded in 2024 and
quickly realized
something needed to
be done, in order to
rebuild the troop
strength in each
organization from
the ground up. We
needed to come up
with a well
equipped, well
maintained, properly
insured fund raising
food trailer that
could be stationed
mission ready to be
used, not only to
raise money during
peace time, but
stand mission ready
to deploy during any
large scale, life
threatening event
that overwhelmed our
public sector
response assets
(Fire Department -
Law Enforcement -
Emergency Management
- etc.)
We launched an
operation to
build and equip a
"Mobile Army
Surgical Hospital"
dubbed "M*A*S*H 4257
and staged it in
northern Door
County. The entire
operation is
fashioned after how
the Green Bay
Packers use Lambeau
Field to man the
stands during a home
game. They provide
the venue i.e. the
game and the food
courts and then
reach out to Knights
of Columbus in the
Green Bay Diocese to
provide the
staffing, during
fundraising events.
Four
years of open borders
has traumatized every man,
women and child in America.
We guilty for not securing
our borders, fear we on the
verge of WW3 and we're
sitting ducks for the next
homegrown terrorist attack.
Most sense the world is
spinning out of control.
After four years of open
borders every man, women and child in
America has been traumatized. They feel
guilty for not stopping the open border
madness, fear what's coming next and all
live under a profound sense we're totally
out of control. It's time to
"Batten down the hatches"
and
"Lock and load". We have to be
"mission-ready to Roll" before the next
homegrown terrorist attack.
"Door
County had 5 solders killed in action during the
Vietnam War"
Randy Wagner,
Lee Patza and I left Egg Harbor about the same
time. Lee landed in Vietnam March 23, 1968,
Randy on September 11, 1968 and I landed on
November 10, 1968. Randy was killed by a
demolition bomb on November 11, 1968 the day
after I landed at Long Bien Ben Hue.
David Schaefer,
son of Roy and Helen (Rohr) Schaefer, Sturgeon
Bay, landed in the Mekong Delta as part of the
Ninth Infantry Division on March 1, 1969 and was
killed 61 days later on May 1, 1969; leaving
three brothers; Steve, Rick and Mark and
paternal grandmother, Nellie Schaefer behind. I
remember hanging out with David at his family's
Shell Station on Jefferson where he spent many
hours working on his '62Corvair.
Sergeant
Schaefer was awarded several medals posthumously
for valor in combat. The Silver Star with 1st
Oak Leaf Cluster. The first was for picking up
an armed Vietcong grenade from beneath a wounded
soldier and hurling it away, where it exploded
shortly thereafter. The second was for
courageously leading an attack against a
Vietcong bunker where he took machine gun fire
that cost him his life. Also awarded were the
Bronze Star and Bronze Star first Oak Leaf
Cluster for meritorious achievement while
participating in sustained aerial flight in
support of combat forces and the Purple Heart.
Rick Perez,
Washington Island, was scheduled to leave
for home on September 22 (we called it
"DEROS" to "CONUS" or "Date Expected to Return
from Overseas to Continental United States"). He
was killed by a fragmentation grenade in Quang
Nam province on September 6, 1969; sixteen days
before he would have safely landed at home on
the Island.
Dan Pfister,
born in
Jacksonport, had been in the Army since 1955. He
was the oldest and first Door County vet to be
killed in Vietnam. Dan and I were attached
to the same MACVn command. We called him a
"Brown Boot" because once you're in Nam for over
a week you're boots are red-brown from the mud
in the rivers. Dan was a medic on an operation
out of Binh Thuan when he was first listed as
MIA but than the same day (June 18, 1968), his
body was recovered and he was official reported
as Killed in Action.
Philip Overbeck,
Son of Henry and
Thea, brother of William and Charles and Michael
and Margi and Elizabeth and Jennifer; a 1965
graduate of Sturgeon Bay High School, was the
fifth and last Door County vet to be Killed in
Action on June 10. 1970. Phil was a paratrooper
serving with the 173 Airborne Brigade, Company
B-4, 503 Infantry when he was killed by an
explosive device while on an operation out of
Binh Dinh. Phil's brothers William and
Charles are both Vietnam vets.
Lee landed
safely back in the U.S. February 9, 1969. I was
scheduled to go home November 10, 1968 but
extended my tour to get the --- who killed
Randy. I landed back in the U.S. January 10,
1970.
Would not have been possible
without the hard work and support of so many over the past year.
Following are just a few critical liaisons.
From Door County's Veteran Service Office
From Iraq
From 1st Sergeant Thomas Blohowiak and his 372 Engineer Company...
and VFW District 8 Commander Steve Conto
with the 372 Engineer Co. (VERT)
The line at the WALL ran through LZ Lambeau.
Panel Patches by: Woody West
From Wisconsin National Guard and
Emergency Management
From Wisconsin Department of Homeland Security
From leaders of the World Credit Union Movement
From Lambeau Credit Union in Tobago
From Door County's Sheriff and our local and State Emergency
Management
From Door County's Sheriff and County Board
From Door County's Board of Supervisors
From bikers across the State
From front-line firefighters
From LZ Lambeau planners and organizers
From fellow bikers across the US
From Northeast Wisconsin Bikers Association
Members
From Door County Motorcycle Clubs
From local radio stations
From my fellow VFW Post 8337 members
From the Door
Devils of Door County!
They're covering
our back!
Door Devil rider
Emmitt's sister-in-law was engaged to
Randy when he deployed to Nam. Randy was
killed the day after I landed in
country.
LZ Lambeau vets
will be flying Vietnam era aircraft!
We'll be building
ramps for the wall the week before!
Flyovers were friendly!
We're bonded through
generations of military service
We'll never be caught
off guard again!
Choppers provided LZ
Lambeau air cover!
Door
County Honor Riders answered roll-call well trained, properly
equipped, and mission ready to roll!
Disclaimer:
As Nixon would say, I want it made it "perfectly clear"
that operations launched from this site are by one old
Vietnam Vet who's only interested in putting back
together the lives of his comrades who've been wounded
too often by politicians more interested in their
re-election than standing up for the Christian
principals on which our country has been built.
If my lack of tact or unconventional tactics offend you,
I apologize. It is precisely because of my passion at
times that I must clearly state so there can be no
misunderstanding; "I do not in any way, shape, form, or
fashion represent any veteran post of which I'm a
member, nor do I represent any credit union or credit
union affiliate for whom I've been privileged to work"
If you or any of your associates chose to follow any of
my recommendations or adopt any of my protocols, you do
it at your own risk. Now that that has been said, Let us
proceed full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!
Rich Woldt -
Proud Army Strong Vietnam Vet
As each
deployment started
so it closed with a prayer to our
"Eternal God!"
Prayer: Eternal God!
Written by: Pastor Roger Falk
AMVET Post 51
Prayed Graveside: 0600 Hours May 21, 2010
Eternal
God, Supreme Commander of us all, Lord of the
far-flung battle line, to whom all ranks of life
report, we bow before you with reverent hearts
and in sublime faith, knowing that you lead us
on in death as you do in life.
Once again
you ordered servants of our country to lay down
their arms and dwell forever with the unnumbered
multitude. Mindful of service nobly done, you
have called them to everlasting rest. You have
sealed their lips. You have called them to
eternal peace.
Hear now the
sorrows of those who mourn. Touch their tired
hearts with healing. Protect them with your holy
care. Keep clean and bright in memory the
splendid flame that now has flickered out!
Shelter us with your divine compassion. Join us
with those whose daily lives are an offering to
duty and their native land. Inspire us by their
example that we may die worthy of like service.
We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ who gave
his life as a sacrifice for all mankind. Amen.
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Our
primary
mission was
to safely
deploy 5
Honor Riders
with Rolling
Thunder's
1244 riding
out of La
Crosse to LZ
Lambeau
while at the
same time
deploying 5
from KIA
gravesites
in Door
County to LZ
Lambeau on
Friday, May
21, 2010.
The 1244
represent
the number
of Wisconsin
solders
killed in
action,
missing in
action, or
who were
prisoners
during the
Vietnam War.
All Door
County
riders made
it safely to
LZ Lambeau.
Two of
Rolling
Thunder's
riders went
down in the
rain on the
way to La
Crosse
suffering
only minor
injuries.
Three went
down in the
rain during
the first
deployment
sending one
to the
hospital,
and one went
down later
in the day
suffering
minor
injuries but
totaling his
bike. The
FAA grounded
the chopper
planning to
fly over the
1244.
