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She and her DAR colleagues spread the wealth, being sure to recognize every branch of our armed forces, to include the Guard, Reserve and family members. And, June is particularly inclusive when it comes to the wide range of wartime (and peacetime!) eras which the robust Lake and Sumter veteran community represents. "The majority of Continental Soldiers were young men between the ages of 15 to 30," she told me.  Maybe thats why the DAR is just as keen on lending a hand to Service recruiters o...

Melbourne was the setting last weekend for the Florida Air Show, billed as an Armed Forces Day event and featuring the Navys famed Blue Angels. A small party from Lake County had the privilege of enjoying the show a day early, sans traffic, in the company of a Blue Angel alumnus, retired Cmdr. Wayne Molnar (the SALUTE pages Veteran Profile in the Daily Commercials March 7 edition). Col. Riccoh Player, a former Pentagon public affairs officer, said that Armed Forces Day was created in 1949 to r...

"We will fight our countrys battles," the Marines Hymn assures us in song, "in the air, on land and sea." But 245 years of USMC history points to other successes where strafing enemy positions and planting the American flag on some desolate, war-savaged hill was not required. Americas Corps of Marines guarded the U.S. mail in 1921; they earned the name "Sea Angels" in Tsunami-clobbered Bangladesh in 1992; and they have fought forest fires out West on a number of occasions in the last three deca...