MAY: Romeo Peach Festival is backdrop for care-package effort
Female engagement teams of the U.S. Marines get care packages from the Women Marines Association MI-2. FETs go out with male Marines on patrol and assist them as they go into neighborhoods where male Marines are not allowed to speak to the local women. The women Marines share hygiene products with the women and even assist in childbirths. Photo submitted by Mary Ann Merritt
The WMA goal of this weekend’s “Operation Parade Rest” is 750 care packages of items for deployed men and women in all branches of the service. The overall goal of the ongoing project is to see that no one leaves mail call empty-handed. Candy and snacks, drink mixes, all kinds of toiletries and comfort items for males and females, puzzle books and paperbacks, DVD movies and music CDs, AA and AAA batteries, Nerf Balls,The Festival of Cars Show on Sunday benefits Lions clubs’ charities. It is at the Romeo Ford Engine Plant. For details, call (586) 747-1871. The car show includes raffles, dash plaques, concessions, vendors, DJ music, a farmer’s breakfast (7 a.m.-noon), free shuttle to and from the festival (10 a.m.–3 p.m.) and awards at 4 p.m. The car show closes at 5 p.m. and the Festival of Cars Parade begins on Main Street at 7:30 p.m. In 2001, Congress designated Sept. 11 as Patriot Day. A 2009 public law requests the observance of Sept. 11 as an annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance. They mark the tragedies that happened on 9/11 but also abundant displays of patriotism. People joined the military and volunteered in their own neighborhoods and there was a heightened sense of fellowship and unity. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 154 is holding a car show at Gratiot Auto Center at 29187 Gratiot Avenue in Roseville on Sept. 11. Register 8-10:30 a.m. for the show that takes place 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Vehicle owners and visitors should bring nonperishable items for the Macomb County Veterans Food Bank.
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The event includes a mobile Vietnam memorial, National Guard rock wall and obstacle course, Marine Corps vehicles and pull-up bar, and US Border Patrol presence. Contact the Oakland University Veteran Liaison Office at (248) 370-2010 for further
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Black and white, fresh recruits and seasoned veterans, the women are among many thousands who have cycled through the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 with the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, National Guard and reserves.
All of this will take place as part of a project known as STAND DOWN, a three-day retreat — held each year on the first weekend after Labor Day — for hundreds of the Greater Philadelphia area's homeless military veterans — men and women who have
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Carolinas see bump in homeless female veterans - Marine Corps ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The number of homeless women veterans is increasing in North Carolina and South Carolina as they become a larger part of the military, but the resources to help them are limited.
The state Department of Veterans Affairs says about 90 women veterans who are homeless live in the Fayetteville, home of Fort Bragg, according to the Fayetteville Observer. Crisis Ministry in Charleston, S.C., says it provided temporary shelter to 28 female vets in the previous fiscal year, The Post and Courier of Charleston reported.
But the numbers aren’t necessarily accurate because some people don’t seek help or others bounce from home to home and never enter the system. The National Coalition for the Homeless says women account for 3 percent to 4 percent of the national population of homeless vets, which numbers about 200,000 nightly.
The main reason for the problem is that women account for more of the military. And as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, service providers expect the number of women who need help to grow.
“The resources are limited,” said Stephanie Felder, homeless program coordinator for the VA in Fayetteville. “They are growing, but they’re limited.”
Andrea Ray of Fayetteville is one of those women who lived under the radar of service programs for years. Ray, who served more than eight years in the Navy, didn’t have a steady home for nearly five years before receiving a VA voucher for subsidized housing. She was battling alcoholism and bounced from job to job until she got help in the form of one of 45 houses provided to veterans through a partnership between the VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Another 25 HUD houses became available for homeless veterans at the end of July.
The home has brought stability to Ray, her 8-year-old son and her 18-month-old daughter.
“Yes, I have to clean my kitchen. But at least it’s my kitchen,” Ray said. “It makes me think that things can be different, that things will get better.
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