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Welcome to OUR POST!The
home page is a good place to let visitors know the purpose of OUR POST. WHITESTONE
COMMUNITY POST 4787 VFW
19-12 149TH. ST
WHITESTONE NY 11357
MEETS EVERY SECOND AND
FOURTH
MONDAY OF EACH MONTH
HALL AVAILABLE FOR PARTIES AND RENTALS.
CALL 718 746 -0540
The VFW Mission/PurposeThe Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
began in 1898, after the Spanish-American War. The VFW is the oldest major veterans service organization in the United States with nearly three million members.The
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is chartered by the U.S. Congress. Each VFW Post is a 501 c 19 non-profit corporation.
The Purpose of the VFW CorporationThe purpose of this corporation shall be: 1.- FRATERNAL
2.- PATRIOTIC
3.- HISTORIC
4 - EDUCATIONAL
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To preserve and strenghten comradeship among its members; to assist
worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true
allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism;
to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies,
whomsoever.
MEMBERS NEEDED.
APPLY
WHITESTONE COMMUNITY
VFW POST 4787
19-29 149 TH. STREET
WHITESTONE 11357 NY
FOR MEMBERSHIP
INFO. CALL 718-465 0540
PLEASE BRING YOUR DD 214 WHEN APPLYING FOR
MEMBERSHIP.
OUR OFFICERS | | COMMANDER
POST SURGEON WILLIAM COSTELLO MARVIN SPERLING
SR. VICE COMMANDER
POST ADVOCATE DR.DAVID COPELL
ERNEST C MALVICINI JR. VICE COMMANDER
TRUSTEES LUIGI ESPOSITO
ARTHUR MCDOUGAL BENJAMIN
SINGER QUARTERMASTER
JOE PANZARDI P.P.C.
OFFICER OF THE DAY
AUXILIARY PRES. DANIEL RUSSELL
GRACIE TUCCI CHAPLAIN THOMAS V FEEKS
PHOTO UPDATE 2/17/07- ON MY RECENT TRIP TO ATLANTIC CITY. WHILE WALKING THE BOARDWALK . I CAME ACROSS A MEMORIAL TO THE KOREAN WAR VETERANS.I
TOOK THESE PHOTOS. WHEN IN ATLANTIC CITY
CHECK IT OUT. A REAL SURPRISE AMONG ALL THE CASINOS.A CITY THAT DIDN'T FORGET THESE VETERANS.
If anyone wants photos posted
please E-mail them to me or give them to joe panzardi. thanks ANDY |
NOT JUST ON MEMORIAL DAY. WE SHOULD HONOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS
EVERY DAY. REVOLUTIONARY WAR--4,435 KIA WAR
OF 1812--2,260 KIA MEXICAN WAR - 1,733 CIVIL WAR[NORTH]-364,511 KIA CIVIL WAR [SOUTH] 133,821 KIA SPANISH
AMERICAN WAR- 53,402 KIA WW1 - 118,518 KIA WW2- 405,339 KIA KOREAN
WAR- 36,516 KIA VIETNAM WAR- 58,198 KIA GULF WAR-383 KIA WAR
ON TERROR-AFGANISTAN-IRAQ
1,590 KIA
AND STILL GROWING
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WHAT IS A VETERAN?
A veteran is a different kind of man. Maybe he doesn't look or act much different from his neighbor who never wore the uniform, but deep in his memories and emotions
there is a difference..A veteran is a man who knows the answer to the question: "What is
war?" each veteran he his own set of answers. They are
like sharp little photographers that from time to time he looks just to remind himself that he lived through a great and terrible
tragedy and was forever change by it.War is the relaxation that all the purpose of your life, all the years
of school and growing up , all the strength
and wisdom and courage, have been brought together into one point of action the way
you look through a gunsight or the speed with which you cross a patch of ground.War, finally, is thousands of acres of white crosses, and the memory of
some of the men who forever sleep in foreign soil. War is the
knowledge that we must not betray them, that we must hold fast to the faith for which they died.War-for an American-is the knowledge that it was worth the cost. We know
our cause is jus * We know that we played our
part in the never-ending struggle for human Free
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