Earlier today Royal Canadian Legion Branch 25 President Michael Barbour participated in a Veterans Day Ceremony hosted by Touro University California on their campus, which sits on the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The event was littered with poppies. Below is the recording and some of the pictures from the event.
Earlier today Royal Canadian Legion Branch 25 President Michael Barbour participated in a Veterans Day Ceremony hosted by Touro University California on their campus, which sits on the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The event was littered with poppies, and had a Canadian flare with the reading of “in Flanders Field” and the laying of a Royal Canadian Legion wreath. Below are some of the pictures from the event.
The Royal Canadian Legion was also represented at the virtual Veterans Day Service hosted by Touro University California.
Note that this is a personal archive. The original video for this event is available at https://youtu.be/ODqNH1IlGOI
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Join Touro University California in honoring our Veterans for a Virtual Celebration hosted by the TUC Military Club.
The live event aired on Wednesday, November 11, 2021 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Original description:
Join TUC in honoring our Veterans for a Virtual Celebration.
Hosted by the TUC Military Club
Thursday, November 11, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Join the Celebration (No Registration Required)
This event is free, and all are welcome to join us as we celebrate the men and women who have kept our country safe throughout the years.
Special Guests include:
In one week a webinar, which includes some local military history, that may be of interest to our membership.
Thomas L Snyder, MD
Tom Snyder is a retired urologist and naval officer. In retirement, he has combined
his naval and medical interests to work on a history of the first Navy’s first west coast hospital, on Mare Island. He’s the founding executive director of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine, which sponsors academic panels, offers graduate student travel and research grants, and awards a biennial Harold D Langley Book Prize for Excellence in the History of Maritime Medicine. Tom is a Companion in the Naval Order of the United States, America’s oldest naval history organization. At Albany Medical College, Tom founded and coordinates the Albany Base Hospital No 33 Society, an alumni military affinity group. At home in Vallejo, he frequently lectures to local groups on the history of maritime and military medicine and writes a blog, Of Ships and Surgeons – Notes on Maritime Medicine, Past and Present. He has published several articles on maritime medical history.
Flyer: tuc-historic-webinar.pdf
A reminder of an up-coming webinar, which includes some local military history, that may be of interest to our membership.
Thomas L Snyder, MD
Tom Snyder is a retired urologist and naval officer. In retirement, he has combined
his naval and medical interests to work on a history of the first Navy’s first west coast hospital, on Mare Island. He’s the founding executive director of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine, which sponsors academic panels, offers graduate student travel and research grants, and awards a biennial Harold D Langley Book Prize for Excellence in the History of Maritime Medicine. Tom is a Companion in the Naval Order of the United States, America’s oldest naval history organization. At Albany Medical College, Tom founded and coordinates the Albany Base Hospital No 33 Society, an alumni military affinity group. At home in Vallejo, he frequently lectures to local groups on the history of maritime and military medicine and writes a blog, Of Ships and Surgeons – Notes on Maritime Medicine, Past and Present. He has published several articles on maritime medical history.
Flyer: tuc-historic-webinar.pdf
Royal Canadian Legion, US Branch #25 