September Interveterans

Next meeting of the Interveterans council of Sangamon County will be Sep 30th at 6PM at the Navy Club.

Please check the following for accuracy 

Sep 1:  Honor Flight

Navy Club Ship 32 meets third Thursdays of the month at 7PM

Oct 5 American Legion 759 at 6:30PM. 

Sep 7 Amvets 94 at 7PM

Sep 7 VFW 755 at 6PM. 

Sep 8 Noon Women's Overseas Service League 

Sep 8 Northenders VFW Post 10302 meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7 pm.

Sep 12 VAC budget meeting 5:30

Sep 10 Catholic War Veterans Post 1916 6:30pm. 

 https://post19165.wixsite.com/cwv-1916

Aug 25 American Legion Post 32 4th Tues at 6:30. https://www.springfieldamericanlegion.com/monthly-meetings/

Sep 30 Interveterans Council of Sangamon County Meeting 6PM

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Honoring Patriot Day

The Department of Central Management Services has received notice from

Governor JB Pritzker that all person or entities covered by the Illinois Flag 

Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in honor of:

Patriot Day

Please lower the United States flags and the State flags 

at all buildings occupied by your agency’s personnel from:

Sunrise Friday, September 11, 2026 

until Sunset Friday, September 11, 2026

More information is available at https://www.illinois.gov/about/flag-honors.html

https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/32900-patriot-day-2026.pdf.pdf

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Vetstock is BACK on Saturday • November 7th, 2026 • 11AM–3PM • Salvation Army Community Center (Springfield, IL) — and we’re turning the energy all the way up.

Last year was incredible… this year is going to be even bigger for our Veterans and our community.

Want in on the action?

Vendor spots, Sponsors Opportunities , donating Veteran giveaway items, Volunteering — message me!

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22 Dinner: An RSVP is appreciated to help with food preparation:

mailto: dinah@kare9.org or call 217-306-4270.

Oct 10 Brews and BBQ

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Good afternoon VSOs!

My name is Danielle Campbell, and I am the Program Coordinator for our Family Support Services department here at Operation Homefront.

Every year (now in its 19^th year) Operation Homefront hosts the Military Child of the Year® Awards. The awards are open to military children between the ages of 13-18. There are 7 recipients 1 child from each branch of service and each recipient receives $10,000 CASH, a laptop, other donated goodies, and a 3-day trip to Washington, D.C. with us and their families.

Children are entered by nominations. Anyone that knows a military child can nominate any military child. So, you may nominate your students, friend’s children, children can nominate their siblings and best friends and so on. The awards are open to Active Duty, reserves, Gold Star, National Guard, AND retired military children. The program is entirely FREE and exclusive to military children, and you do not need to create an account to submit a nomination.

If you know a military child, we would love to hear their story!! We would also appreciate if you would help us get the word out there to your military communities and families!

Nominations are open now and will remain open until December 1^st.

If you would like I can email you a flyer to share as well.

If you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to respond to this email or call the number below. And thank you for supporting military community!

 

You will need to submit your nominations here.

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VFW Voice of Democracy and Patriot Pen

The Patriot’s Pen essay competition is open to all students in grades 6-8. “The 2026-2027 theme is:
“What a Veteran Taught Me About America.” Each first place state winner receives a minimum of $500 at the national level, and the national first place winner wins $5,000! Typed essays are due to our post on Oct 31, 2026. More information online at https://www.vfw.org/VOD
Each level that an entry progresses through, will get a monetary award that increase as it passes to the next level up through VFW National level.

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Helps us raise the bar for Wreaths Across America at Camp Butler. This will be a fun time for all. Please share

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Gjkn6BRot/

If you have not donated and wish to it is not to late. Deadline is coming fast and is December 1st 2026. You can donate at Wreathsacrossamerica.org/IL0295. Any other question please feel free to contact me at 217-825-6494.

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Run for Honor