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IRON HORSE JULY 2013 Vol. I No. 6 e-version 40 8 VOITURE LOCALE 1588 5401 HIGHWAY 527 HAUGHTON, LA 71037 Chef de Gare Locale Paul Strange I’d like to thank you all for the support you’ve given me during my tour as Chef de Gare of Voiture 1588. Next month you will be hearing from our new Chef de Gare, John DeMoss. It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve. It was a great year and I expect that next year will be even better. As you can see, we are at 100% in our membership! Thanks to all for paying your dues. Remember to send old stories or photographs to Bill Stroud at [email protected], or drop them by the Post. We’d like to hear from you. Don’t worry about the branch of service or the time period-if it’s a good story or photograph, we will use it. We’d like to see you, too. Don’t forget our promenades on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 6:30 at Post 388. Our next one is on the 24th of July. Subject to change, our meeting schedule for the rest of the year is as follows: July 24 August 28 September 25 October 23 November 27 December (not yet decided) Hope to see all of you that can make it at the Post on the 4 th of July from 11:00 a.m. on. It should be a good time. If not, take some time to remember the sacrifices made so that Our Nation could gain its Independence, the sacrifices made thereafter to keep it and the sacrifices still being made by our Men and Women in uniform. Say a prayer of thanks each day and continue to do your part by supporting our Military and Veterans organizations. For God and Country, Paul Strange Membership -Where We Stand Based on the National web-site as of June 26, 2013 2012 YTD Total 53 2013 YTD Total 53 2012 Year End Total % of Quota Short 53 100% 0 Don Schreiber (at right) in Thailand, circa 1953. Editor’s note. You would have thought that Don would have figured this one out quickly as our story starts with a trip to the men’s room at Bangkok airport in 1953. I don’t know where Strange Paul was when this picture was taken and frankly don’t care. (Rumor has it that he was in a nearby stall which is why this lady turned around and said, “Only one per stall.”) Unfortunately, the censors got hold of the rest of this story and the follow on story: Strange Paul and the Rock Ape. WHAT AISLE IS THE POLISH SAUSAGE ON? Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream 'racism' these days. One day recently Hank asked, "In what aisle could I find the Polish sausage?" The clerk asks, "Are you Polish?" The guy, clearly offended, says, "Yes I am. But let me ask you something." "If I had asked for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian?" "Or if I had asked for German Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?" "Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish?" "Or if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican?" "Or if I asked for some Irish whiskey, would you ask if I was Irish?" The clerk says, "No, I probably wouldn't." The guy says, "Because I asked for Polish sausage, why did you ask me if I'm Polish?" The clerk replied, "Because you're in Home Depot!" Your 2013-2014 officers for Voiture Locale 1588 are as follows: Chef de Gare Locale John DeMoss Chefs de Train J. R. Johnson Paul Strange Comis Voyageur James Brumley Cheminot Locale James Vice Jack Fesmire Donnie Glascow Gard de la Porte Keith Kingston Sous Gard de la Porte Jack Steransky Lampiste Walter Siedlecki Commissaire Intendant Hank Kwiatkowski Correspondent Jessie Morrison Conducteur Larry Aytes Avocat Hank Kwiatkowski Aumonier Bob Zirkle Medicin Chuck Rodgers Publiste Bill Stroud American Legion Post 388 40/8 Voiture 1588 JULY 2013 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 1 2 3 14 8 15 Shuffleboard Registration at 1:00 p.m.; start at 2:00 p.m. Pot Luck follows! SAL Meeting 6:30 PM 21 22 9 16 4 5 10 23 24 30 Saturday 6 Come hear Henry every Saturday at 6:00 PM (and also on Friday!) 12 13 Henry 6:00 p.m. Henry 6:00 p.m. 18 19 20 92 Grande Promenade Lafayette 18-21 July Henry 6:00 p.m. Henry 6:00 PM Grande Promenade Grande Promenade 26 27 nd 40 & 8 Promenade 6:30 PM 29 11 17 Post and Auxiliary Meetings 6:30 PM Grande Promenade 28 Friday 4TH OF July Party. Doors open at 11. Cleanup every Sunday at 8:00am Come out and help! 7 Thursday 25 Henry 6:00 p.m. r 31 Shuffleboard & Pot Luck Got something for the calendar? Let us know and we’ll put it on. [email protected] Henry 6:00 PM Don’t forget the 4th of July is on a Thursday this year – hot dogs and hamburgers at the Post! Don’t forget to stop in and check the calendar and bulletin board. There will be a lot going on around the lake 4th of July weekend. Don’t forget our friends and neighbors at Four Way, Our Place, Brooks Landing, Rodger’s, Rascal’s, Shockley’s, Deb’s Place and all of our local establishments. Cadet Trey Jolley prepares to escort Post 388 Commander Larry Aytes and Auxiliary President Ann Cleary at the Memorial Day Ceremony at Hill Crest. Dans Ľéditeur de This month we again celebrate our Nation's Independence. Current events show us that we all need to get involved. There is a lot going on around us. We tend to ignore current events but maybe it is time to pay more attention. It seems that the more our government tries to do for us, the more freedoms we end up losing. Please keep those who are ill in your prayers. Try to stay out of the heat and have a great summer. Hope to see you soon at the Post. Hopefully, this newsletter will be out before the 4th of July and we will see you there. It should be an old fashioned picnic with hamburgers, hot dogs and the like. Again, all stories are welcome. As you know, we try to keep them clean and our censors are constantly on guard. That is why the stories about Don and Paul were omitted from this month's Iron Horse. Ce mois-ci, nous célébrons la fois l'indépendance de notre nation. L'actualité nous montrent que nous devons tous y participer. Il ya beaucoup de choses autour de nous. Nous avons tendance à ignorer les événements actuels, mais peut-être il est temps d'accorder plus d'attention. Il semble que le plus notre gouvernement essaie de faire pour nous, les plus de libertés que nous finissons par perdre. S'il vous plaît garder ceux qui sont malades dans vos prières. Essayez de rester à l'écart de la chaleur et passez un bel été. Nous espérons vous voir bientôt à la poste. Espérons que ce bulletin sera avant le 4 Juillet et nous vous y voir. Il devrait être un vieux pique-nique façonné avec des hamburgers, des hot-dogs,etc.Encore une fois, toutes les histoires sont les bienvenus. Comme vous le savez, nous essayons de les garder propres et nos censeurs sont constamment sur ses gardes. C'est pourquoi les histoires de Don et Paul ont été omis de fer à cheval de ce mois. Jusqu'à la prochaine fois (Until next time), Bill Stroud P.S. IF YOU USE E-MAIL AND RECEIVED THIS BY REGULAR MAIL, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS. IT WILL HELP SAVE $$ AND ALLOW US TO SEND MORE NEWSLETTERS! [email protected] We still need old photographs and stories to share.