Community Update

     On Sunday, November 10, the day before
Veterans Day,  at the Joint Forces
Training Base, Los Alamitos,  there will
be a Veterans Day Ceremony  with a Marine
Corps emphasis.  November 10 is the
Marine Corps Birthday as well as the Sunday before Veterans Day.  The Catholic and the non-denominational  Protestant 
congregations, which meet weekly on the base,  will join together for this Celebration at
0930 on Sunday Morning, November 10, 2013.

     The Primary Speaker: 
Congressman Steven T. Kuykendall. 
He served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001
representing California’s 36th Congressional District.  He was com-missioned a Marine Corps Second
Lieutenant in 1968 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, including the
effort to stop the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive in 1972.  He was promoted to the rank of Captain and
was medically retired in 1973 after a permanent shoulder injury.

     Mr. Kuykendall  is serving now as volunteer president and CEO
of Fisher House Southern California to raise funds for the construction of a
Fisher House on the Long Beach V. A. Medical Center Campus.   100%
of  the offering at the serve will be
given  to help with the construction of
the Long Beach Fisher House.

    The
service will be in the East Wing of the Liberty Theater , building 6,which is
the wing closest to the flag pole at the center of the base.  You are invited to share in this Veterans Day
Celebration especially if you are a Marine!

     Call
Chaplain Bill Thompson USA (ret) for more information at 562-430-8438.