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The Silver Star Families of America MARYLAND
Representative Margie Harich
Thank you for your interest in helping SSFOA serve our wounded in my state of Maryland. It is a great privilege to represent this Family who supports and honors our wounded military men and women. As the number of wounded grows, so does the responsibility of each of our members. I want to ensure that Maryland does her part to uphold our wounded armed forces.
Recently, we attended a meeting to receive the signed copy of our city SSBD proclamation. There were people from the Mayor's office, the Army and others taking pictures and we were advised we would be receiving copies from the Mayor's photographer and the Army will be sending their pictures to me by e-mail.
There was more to the event then expected. It was a town meeting covering a past agenda as well as other awards being presented. The schools had a young lady receiving a special award for her wonderful efforts in the community. There was a representative from the NAACP chapter with some young folks and their mission.
We were called up, by the Mayor, with the VFW, American Legion, Commander of the National Guard and Mr. Arthur McLean, a gentleman who served in the Korean War. Mayor Doughtery presented the Proclamation (it is absolutely beautiful) to us and we thanked him as representatives of The Silver Star Families of America. In turn, I presented the Mayor with our Citation and the banner. He handed the banner to Mr. McLean and I read the citation to the Mayor. He was surprised and delighted with it. He is a very nice man, a real people person. And Margaret Famous is a delight, we should all be so organized and kind. She said we were great and the Mayor's office would be sending us pictures. I left the SSFOA flyers with her. I spoke with the various agencies and then we were on our way home.
The one surprise I had was finding the local cable crew televising the meeting. SUPRISE!!
All in all we think it went very well and everyone received a round of applause. There was quite a group of people in attendance.
Contact me if you have questions or would like to join SSFOA. You may Request Silver Star Banners at http://www.silverstarfamilies.org/RequestSSBanner.html
Please visit the SSFOA links to learn more.
Respectfully,
Margie Harich
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