Member News
2015 Veterans Day Mass
Each year at St. Patrick’s Cathedral there is a Veterans Day Mass
celebrated by the Archbishop of the Diocese of New York. This year’s
Mass was on 8 November 2015 and celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal
Timothy Dolan. The US Navy was the specially honored service.
MG Evo Riguzzi (Ret), who is a member of our Association, and COL
Mary Westmoreland (Ret), who is a former member of the 800th MP
Brigade, represented the US Army at this year’s Mass. General
Riguzzi and Colonel Westmoreland led the procession of veterans up
the central aisle. They also participated in offering the gifts from
the congregation, the wine and water used during the Mass.
MG Evo Riguzzi (in center), COL Mary Westmoreland (on his left)
MG George E. Barker
MG George E. Barker is enjoying his
retirement with his wife, Dr. Pam Phillips, spending time in NYC and
at their home in the Hudson Valley in upstate NY. He remains
active on four non-profit boards. His two principal projects
are a Veterans Memorial Park which he spearheaded in his hometown of
Rector, Arkansas, and serving as Chairman of the Arkansas State
University Center for America’s Wounded Veterans.
An article and additional photos
regarding the Veterans Memorial Park can be viewed at the following
page of the official web site of the City of Rector:
http://www.rectorarkansas.com/veterans-memorial-park.html .
The Center for America’s Wounded Veterans
opened in 2009 and MG Barker presides as Chairman to raise
scholarship money to educate wounded veterans and provide them with
much needed medical support. For the past six years, the
program has served over 1,500 wounded veterans returning from
service in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Center is also proud to
report there have been no suicides among the veterans in the
program.
MG Barker is also co-founder of Helping
Hands Foundation in Rector, AR, helping local school children, and
he serves on the Foundation Board of Mutual of America in New York
City. He also looks forward to his continuing participation in
our Association.
Visit to Grave of CPT Eddie Grant, 307th Inf. Regt., 77th Inf. Div.
Capt. Eddie Grant, as a member of the 77th Infantry Division, and a former professional baseball player, fought in WWI. The picture shows friends of our Division visiting and placing our small 77th Infantry Division flag on CPT Grant’s grave at the Meuse-Argonne cementery in France.
