VietNow Freeport, Practicing the spirit of "Veterans helping Veterans"
Freeport Chapter VietNow shall lend its support to all United States Armed Forces Veterans and those currently serving. Remembrance to it's fallen Veterans with assistance and promotion of acceptable memorials, participate in community activities i.e. Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veterans' Day, or similar events, educate youth through awareness of contributions and sacrifices of all Veterans to ensure the freedoms, maintaining the support of the POW-MIA issue through education of fellow Veterans and the public, encouraging no-cost media promotion, air and printed, to further Veterans issues through discussion and display of respective issues and insignia at public functions.
THE MIRACLE OF LIFE
I believe the miracle of life goes far beyond this minute.
Those who live only for today and take no time to reflect on yesterday or prepare for tomorrow know a shallow selfish existence with little hope for personal improvement or accomplishment...Taking time to recall the past is a history lesson in living--as we understand and learn from our mistakes and realize what it was we did that still makes us feel good about ourselves today.
.....THEN, we can better use this minute and this day, with the minutes and days of our lives continually improving in quality.
Truly you would miss the Miracle of Life if you were to live only in the past, or in the future, completely missing the Gift of today.
......But only a fool lives today without consideration to all the rest of the days of his life ....
God gave to man both memory and foresight - tools for building a better
life.......
Sammy L. Davis C.M.H.
VietNow Freeport is active with the following community activities and organizations:
Allied Veterans Council
Allied Veterans Annual Van Golf Tournament
American Business Women's Association (ABWA)
American Cancer Society
Aquin Boosters
Arthritis Foundation
Bethany Church UCC
Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
DARE Program
DCFS Kids Access
Malcolm Eaton Enterprises
Leonard Ferguson Cancer Center
Fire Safety Council for Kids
First Team
Freeport Chamber Of Commerce Member
Korean War Memorial
Mission Home Front
Police Benevolent Association
Salvation Army
Silver Creek Museum
Stephenson County Fair
Stephenson County Visitors Bureau
Veterans' Homeless Committee of Chicago
Veterans Day Observance
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US (VFW)
Veterans' Van Transport Freeport-Madison
VietNow Freeport Scholarship Fund
VietNow National
Voter Registration
Winneshiek Theatre and Highland YMCA
"The nation that forgets its defenders, will its self be forgotten". Calvin Coolidge - 36th President of The United States, 1923/29
"It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's." --Mark Twain