A Helping Community and Songs to Sing November 7, 2014 Veterans Corner by Ronald Verini The community partnership between Veteran Advocates of Ore-Ida and Home Depot has again proven to be a great benefit for our area veterans. The ‘Celebration of Service’ grant awarded to VAOI to honor a local veteran by fixing up their home has just about completed the project. Army veteran Scott McGinnis and his wife were so very thankful to have benefited from this Grant. Scott is still serving his community and country as a police officer for the City of Nyssa. Sunrise Christian Church certainly answered prayers for assistance for our less fortunate veteran and military families. Pastor Bill Williams, Ken Wagner and the whole congregation brought a lot of happiness and thankfulness to many who needed a little assistance helping themselves. Thank you!!! A report from the Washington Free Beacon, mentions that the VA Inspector General referred about 17 cases linked to the allegations of ‘wait time manipulation’ to the Department of Justice for prosecution. However seems that the DOJ will not prosecute. No reason given by the DOJ or VA Inspector General. Say What? You know those Service Songs for all branches of the Military? Well here is how and when they came to be selected and who wrote them. Before “The Caisson Song” was the official tune of the US Army, it was the anthem of the US Field Artillery Corps. Lt. Ed Gruber (whose relative Franz Gruber wrote the Christmas song “Silent Night”) was inspired when hearing an officer call out “Come on! Keep ‘em Rolling” and wrote the melody and fellow soldiers wrote the lyrics and all six regiments then adopted ”The Caisson Song”. But during the last days of WWI, officers asked John Phillip Sousa to incorporate the Caisson Song into his “US Field Artillery March”. Sousa’s March was a ‘Chart-Topper’ selling 750,000 copies, and when learning that Gruber wrote that melody, Sousa made certain Gruber got the Royalties due him. So in 1952 the Army decided to recycle “The Caisson Song” as arranged by H. W. Arberg naming it “The Army Goes Rolling Along”, and finally the Army Copyrighted the song in 1956. The melody of the “Marines’ Hymn” (From the Halls of Montezuma, To the Shores of Tripoli) was taken from a composition that French composer J. Offenbach wrote in the early 1840’s. During the Mexican War (1846-1848) an officer wrote the 1st verse and continuing that custom, every campaign the Marines were in another verse was added. The 1st official use of the Anthem was 1929, however copyright wasn’t vested to the Marines until 1991. Heartfelt thanks to Larry and Allen at the Red Apple Marketplace and Cathy Yasuda at the TVCC Foundation for offering 2 minutes of Western Family Shopping that certainly benefited many veterans in our area. Jan Jacques won the bid, carried the torch, donned her running shoes and more than filled a basket of wonderful goodies! Thank you All! “For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security”. Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 1808 message to Congress
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