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Premiere Issue Of MDFF News

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Premiere Issue of MDFF News

The eNewletter of the Memorial Day Flowers FoundationRead the articles below or download the PDF version

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Countdown to Memorial Day 2020: Help Us Honor the Fallen
Memorial Day Weekend is just 3 months away. Thanks to our local partners, more than 40 cemeteries are participating in flower tributes this Memorial Day Weekend. Several are new to MDFF this year including Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. Nearly a million fallen heroes rest in these cemeteries and we need help to place a flower at every grave. If you are interested in volunteering or sponsoring flowers for our cemeteries, we’d love to hear from you. And, it’s not too late to organize a flower tribute at a cemetery of your choice.Volunteer Spotlight: Michaila Sheedy
Michaila Sheedy is a junior at Notre Dame of Maryland University, who volunteered for MDFF for the first-time in 2019.What inspired you to be a volunteer?
I was inspired to work with MDFF because of their mission to serve those who have sacrificed themselves to give us freedom. If placing a flower at a single grave is my way to thank those who have fought for me, then I would place a thousand more. To me this act wasn’t volunteer work, it was my duty.

What did it mean to you?
Working with MDFF was a true inspiration for me. It was a moment of American unity. All the groups of people that were able to come together and support a cause was truly amazing. It is moments like this where you cannot help but reflect on how fortunate you are to be a part of something bigger. The experience was humbling for me.

What is your message to others?
Be thankful for your opportunities and use them to give back to others. There is no greater gift in life than service so find any way possible to do so. The American spirit is so unique so what better way to embody it than helping MDFF.

Focus on Flowers: Colombia
MDFF receives flowers from Ecuador, Colombia, United States (California), and Ethiopia
Colombia has more than 130,000 different plant species and roses are by far the most common. On one farm alone, you’ll find 30 different colors of roses.  Colombia is the largest rose supplier to the United States and last year, Colombian growers generously donated 100,000 roses to the Arlington National Cemetery tribute.

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The Worst Nazi War Criminal You’ve Never Heard Of…

An item from a fellow veterans organization in the Bay Area.


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The Hidden Nazi Book
Dean Reuter, Author

Meet the Author with Dean Reuter, author of The Hidden Nazi
11 March 2020 – 6pm

Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel – 609 Sutter St, San Francisco

He’s the worst Nazi war criminal you’ve never heard of…

Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler’s slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring that epidemic diseases would complement the work of the gas chambers.

 

Why has the world forgotten this monster? Kammler was declared dead after the war. But the aide who testified to Kammler’s supposed “suicide” never produced the general’s dog tags or any other proof of death.

 

Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester have spent decades on the trail of the elusive Kammler, uncovering documents unseen since the 1940s and visiting the purported site of Kammler’s death, now in the Czech Republic.

 

Their astonishing discovery: US government documents prove that Hans Kammler was in American custody for months after the war—well after his officially declared suicide.

 

And what happened to him after that? Kammler was kept out of public view, never indicted or tried, but to what end? Did he cooperate with Nuremberg prosecutors investigating Nazi war crimes? Was he protected so the United States could benefit from his intimate knowledge of the Nazi rocket program and Germany’s secret weapons?

 

The Hidden Nazi is true history more harrowing—and shocking—than the most thrilling fiction. Learn more about this fascinating story at the Marines’ Memorial on 11 March.

This is a free event; please RSVP by clicking the link below or calling 415-673-6672 ext 238.

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How to beat the bomber

An item from the Legion Magazine.


Military Milestones
How to beat the bomber

How to beat the bomber

Story by Sharon Adams

Ten years ago on Feb. 19, an improvised explosive device was found under a major road in Afghanistan.

The device was placed about 10 metres down a small culvert—out of reach of equipment, impossible to shield. A robot couldn’t finish the job. There was nothing for it but to send in someone—a volunteer—to defuse the nasty thing.

Corporal Dale Kurdziel put up his hand. He had only been in the country a few months, on his first tour to Afghanistan, working with the counter-IED task force.

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Front Lines
Art exhibition reflects a changing environment and the military’s evolving role

Art exhibition reflects a changing environment
and the military’s evolving role

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

A new exhibition of works by artists “commissioned” by the Defence Department reflects Canada’s changing environment and the evolving roles of the country’s military in the wake of an intense 13 years fighting a war in Afghanistan.

Six civilian artists made up the eighth group to participate in the non-paying Canadian Forces Artists Program since 2001. A selection of their work—22 photographs, three videos, and a drawing—is on display in the Canadian War Museum’s Exhibition Hall until May 18.

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This week in history
This week in history

February 18, 1942

Newfoundlanders rescue 185 from U.S. warships driven onto the rocks in a storm; 203 perish.

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