Officers

President: Barbara Benard
1st Vice President Peggy Morrison
2nd Vice President Cher Kondor
Recording Sec. Bonita Lewis
Treasurer Ruth Stonesifer
Chaplain Carol Fahnestock
Corres. Sec. Carol Fahnestock
Records Custodian Ruth Stonesifer
Sergeant at Arms Joan Reid
Americanism Anna Dahr
Hospital Chairman Peggy Morrison
Parliamentarian Helen Seifert
Historian Irene Gertzen
Please visit the
PA Hometown
Heroes banner program to honor our fallen Pennsylvania Heroes.
Ruth Stonesifer, one of our members, runs a
Quilts of Valor program. They can
always use donations for materials.
Cher Kondor, of the Harrisburg Chapter, helped send 120 boxes of
food, paper, pencils and hygiene products to Camp Victory in Baghdad.
At least 450 GSF plates have been issued as of 11/09.
Branch of Service Veterans
License Plates also available. |
Barbara Benard New Dept of PA President
Barbara Benard of Columbia PA and National Banner Guard, has been elected President of the
Dept of Pennsylvania, AGSM at the 2009 Department Convention.

Front row L to R Carol Fahnestock, Theda Gleixner,
Barbara Benard, Anna Dahr, Joan Reid.
Back row L to R Pat Geiger, Alzrio Mc Donald, Helen Seifert,
Irene Gertzen, Cher Kondor, Peggy Morrison.
Top row: Tom Leisher from
Honor and
Remember, Inc. presenting Peggy Morrison, from the Greater
Harrisburg Chapter, with a personalized flag for her son Nicholas
Morrison and Barb Benard reading the Honor and Remember certificate.
Bottom row: Tom Leisher from Honor and Remember, Inc. presenting Irene
Gertzen, from the Greater Harrisburg Chapter, with a personalized flag
for her son Barry Gertzen and Barb Benard reading the Honor and Remember
certificate.
PennDOT Introduces Branch of Service Veteran License Plates
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Honorably
discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces have a new way to
proudly display their service as PennDOT today announced the
availability of a new series of
military license plates honoring veterans of the Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
"On any given day, members of our armed forces are serving around the
globe protecting our freedom," said PennDOT Secretary Allen D. Biehler,
P.E. "PennDOT is pleased to announce this new series of military plates
recognizing their sacrifices in service to our nation."
The new plates feature the standard Pennsylvania license plate colors of
blue, white and yellow along with the applicable branch of service
emblem or logo on the left side of the plate. Pennsylvania is printed at
the top of the plate, with the name of the applicable branch of service
at the bottom.
To obtain one of these plates, honorably discharged veterans must
complete and mail Form MV-150, Application for U.S. Military Veteran
Registration Plate, to PennDOT and include a certified copy of their
DD-214, along with a $20 fee.
Form
MV-150 is available on PennDOT's Driver and Vehicle Services Web
site, www.dmv.state.pa.us, via the Military License Plates link under
the Military Personnel/Veterans Information Center. Additional
information and images of the new license plates are also available on
this Web page. |
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Pennsylvania adopts Honor and Remember Flag as an official symbol
commemorating fallen servicepersons.
June 2, 2009
The American Gold Star Mothers have endorsed the Honor and Remember
Flag as an official symbol commemorating fallen servicepersons. We
attended a session of the PA House of Representatives when they took a
vote to adopt resolution
HR 275 for the Honor and Remember Flag. The resolution was passed
unanimously and a copy was sent to Congress to adopt the Honor and
Remember Flag as a national symbol of gratitude and respect for all
those brave men and women who have died while in service to our country.
This encompasses all those from the revolutionary war to the present.

Representative Rob Kauffman (lower left) introduced the bill.
Attending the session were: back row left to right, Gold Star
Mothers Cher Kondor, Ruth Stonesifer, and Peggy Morrison. Front row left
to right is Tom Leisher from Honor and Remember, Inc, Gold Star Mother
Barb Benard, and George Lutz the founder of Honor and Remember, Inc.
Pennsylvania is the first state to recognize the Honor and Remember
Flag by passing a resolution. Several cities in PA have also adopted
this flag; Chambersburg, Lancaster, York, and Orrstown. There are
several other cities or townships that are working on resolutions for
the flag. |