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Some of you I have made mention to this proposed Memorial to be put in placed at Marine Corps Carolina Museum. Finally got word that they are accepting donations now. Would you please pass this on to the other Marines, Corpsmen and people who care..

Thank you

Jim Beyersdorf

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      MSgt John Cooney USMC (ret)
1006 Oak Dr, Jacksonville NC 28546
910 455-1353, cell 910 381-1353

   Military Order of the Purple Heart
   Chief of Staff, Department of NC.
Adjutant, Beirut Memorial Chapter 642
           www.ncmoph.org
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"A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

Mornin Patriots and Patriettes and Friends -- We are well on our way to establishment of our Corpsmen's Memorial Foundation (CMF), That is the legal title to the fund and also known as the "Marine's Memorial to the Navy Corpsmen." The federal EIN has been obtained as well as a checking and savings account opened at Marine Federal. Our PO Box address is 12641. We are now accepting donations and they can be sent to --Corpsmen's Memorial Foundation or CMF at PO Box 12641, Jacksonville NC 28546.

We are in the process of getting our 501.3.c tax exempt status but in the meantime we can collect donations. A website will go on line around the mid April time frame and there are flyers being make up at this time.

Last night we held an Executive meeting to discuss where we are in the establishment process and we are moving along well. Our Chairman Doc Des Champs is getting the bylaws written and Joe Houle is working on the request to MC Base for a Memorial Site. We tentatively have a lawyer on board who will fill out the 501.3.c paperwork for us. I am told this process takes about 60 to 90 days for approval, if done right the first time. If the lawyer is not on board I have a friend who has experience filling out these forms. It is imperative that they are correct the first time because if not it will delay the process by a couple months.

As most of you know by now, I am the treasurer, noone else wanted it, and we have $260.00 in our account right now.

We have a good team working on this extremely worthwhile and long overdue project. Now we need some folks to go out and start raising funds. Since we are not located with the Museum of the Marine anymore, we are not on their construction time schedule. Their completion date is four to five years, we won't need to wait that long. We will need to coordinate with them though, especially if we get the location that we would like to have, so the establishment of our memorial doesn't get in the way of their construction. The desired location is not far from the Museum and is near the parking lot so it may be subject to much construction traffic.

If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to call me at one of the numbers above. Our next general meeting will be on 16 April at 1900 at the Valencia Park office complex at the corner of Huff and Valencia Drive.

Semper Fi, John