2005 MOAA Calendar:
Tuesday 15 March MOAA meeting Tuesday 20 September MOAA meeting
Tuesday 17 May MOAA meeting Tuesday 15 November MOAA meeting
Tuesday 19 July MOAA meeting Tuesday 17 January 2006 MOAA meeting
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Happy Easter
from your
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Jayhawk Chapter, MOAA
2403 Manchester Road
Lawrence, KS 66049-1646
May 22 is National Maritime Day.
There is no better time to remember our U.S. Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II.
The Merchant Marine has served our country honorably in all wars, particularly WW II. During WW II about a quarter million volunteer mariners delivered about 85 percent of all material used in fighting the war on all battle fronts.
The Merchant Marine delivered locomotives, ammunition, bombs, gasoline, airplanes, troops and cigarettes to name a few things but not without a price.
Approximately 800 ships were sunk and about 9,000 mariners were killed, 11,000 injured and 600 taken prisoner.
They were bombed, torpedoed, shot, drowned and suffered kamikaze attacks.
Robert J. Burkhart, LCDR USNR RET