Dogwood Chapter

Upcoming Events for 2010

• February 7, 3 p.m. - Super Bowl - Warrior Transition Battalion - Moon Hall (Bring cookies, 4-6 dozen each).
• February 13, 11 a.m. - Next Chapter meeting at Capital Church in Garner with Blue Star Moms Chapter 1.
• February 14, 3 p.m. - Bring Valentines to VA Nursing Home.
• February 19, 10 a.m. - Bingo at VA Nursing Home, Fayetteville.
• March 6, TBA - USO "Run for the Troops" Fayetteville, NC.
• March 13, TBA - Chapter meeting.
• March 19, 10 a.m. - Bingo at VA Nursing Home, Fayetteville.
• March 20, 7 a.m. - Pancake Breakfast at Applebee's, Raeford Rd. Fayetteville, fundraiser.
• March 20, TBA - "Friends of Kurdistan" presentation.

Past Events

We participated in Wreaths Across America at Raleigh National Cemetery and Sandhills Veterans Cemetery in Spring Lake.

Veterans Day Parade in Raleigh.

We held a fundraiser at Applebee's and served pancakes to raise money for our chapter.

We met with our Congressman, Bob Etheridge in October to talk about Veteran issues and Gold Star Family issues.

We served cake at the Warrior Transition Battalion for their fall festival.

NC Rolling Thunder Chapters 1 and 4 helped AGSM Dogwood chapter members clean up a wounded soldiers yard.

On June 27, 2009 the Dogwood Chapter of AGSM and Rolling Thunder Chapter 4 held a hot dog lunch for the residents of the North Carolina Veterans Home in Fayetteville.

Volunteers from the Dogwood chapter of AGSM and the local Rolling Thunder chapter start preparing hot dogs.

During the food preparation the wheelchair resident in the lower left corner in the yellow shirt rolled out to inspect our cooking and offer "quality control". He asked for and got one of the first hotdogs to sample just to make sure they were "OK" for the rest of the residents.

Preparations for serving. And perhaps more "inspectors".

Some of the residents enjoying the hotdogs. It was a treat for them since they had just been allowed to start getting hotdogs due to concerns about choking. No one choked on this day and the grilled hot dogs were especially good.

The crew of helpers with the Dogwood Chapter moms in front and Rolling Thunder Chapter 4 members in back. The moms have gold star aprons our president, Lorie, had made with our son's name on them.