~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Special Meeting
in March!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Compatriots and friends, we have had a wonderful suggestion to move
our March meeting to March 20, Saturday night, and join the Early Camp
meeting for a special program. Details are below. Please let Commander
Bailey know if you are interested in attending. His contact information
can be found here.
Anyone needing or wanting to car pool can do so, so we can head over
to Tampa for the dinner and program. The Early Camp website is listed
below. You need to go to the website and print off a dinner reservation
and send it in with a check for the dinner. Please do this early so
they can get a proper headcount and make arrangements. We'll have a
great time sharing fellowship with the Early Camp. Please note that
a number of the Early Camp members bring their wives or girlfriends
to their dinner meeting so it could be a night out also.
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Folks,
Please consider this an open invitation to attend the next Early Camp
Fellowship Meeting scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 2010. We have an
excellent speaker whose topic will be, "A View from Seminary Ridge."
Come join us as we gather to honor our Confederate ancestors and our
Southern history and heritage!
Art Hays
Cmdr., 9th Brigade
FL Division, SCV
6:00 Check in; 7 p.m. Dinner and Program
Clarion Hotel, 2701 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa
PROGRAM: A VIEW FROM SEMINARY RIDGE
SPEAKER: Mark Vogl, Author and 2nd Lt. Commander, Texas Division,
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Ever wonder what the scene at the Gettysburg battlefield was like?
Then you don't want to miss our March guest speaker. Mark Vogl is a
graduate of The Citadel, former Army combat arms officer, college professor,
political aide, and author. His first book, Military Lessons of the
Civil War, was published in the spring of 2007 and received the Jefferson
Davis Historical Gold medal from the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
His second book, published early in 2008, The Rebel Mountain Reader,
includes many of the presentations he features at his speaking engagements,
and more.
Mark is the great-great-grandson of Private David Parks Walter, 33rd
North Carolina Volunteers, part of the famed Lane's brigade, Stonewall
Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia! Mark has been a member of
the Sons of Confederate Veterans since 1994, and was awarded the Texas
Division Confederate of the Year Award in 2009. Mark presently serves
as the 2nd Lt.
Commander of the Texas Division.
Scores of groups around 13 States, interested in the history of the
South, have heard Mark's fascinating and informative presentations.
A View from Seminary Ridge will reveal the reasons for General Lee's
decision to conduct Pickett's Charge on the third day at Gettysburg.
Mark will bring his large full color, three dimensional replica of the
Gettysburg battlefield.
Join us March 20th for this "don't miss" event!'
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Support the SCV While Shopping
- at SCV.We-Care.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Compatriots, you may remember a few years ago when we had a deal with
Amazon where the SCV got a percentage of the money you spent there.
Wouldn't it be nice to have places to shop where a portion of your money
goes to support the SCV? Now you have that place, a whole mall in fact.
A mall with hundreds of stores where each purchase helps the SCV. There
you will find all the big name stores that you may already order from.
Also there are discounts and coupons available.
We now have the SCV on-line Mall. We have partnered with an organization
called We-Care. Their motto is Shop with Purpose. Well we certainly
have a purpose! The link is: http://scv.we-care.com/
Of course this can only be a successful venture if we use it. Please
immediately book mark that page. For those who might forget to go there
before shopping, you can download a reminder, so that if you go to,
for example eBay or Amazon, a box will pop up that asked is you want
a portion to got to the SCV, you will of course say yes! You can find
the reminder program under the Downloads tab on the Mall page or go
to: http://scv.we-care.com/Downloads/Reminder
Please go check this out and spread the word. Anyone can shop there!
Send the links to all your friends and family. Use it for business purchases.
Put in on your social networking sites like facebook. Make it a part
of your signature on your emails. Put the link on your personal webpage.
Above I have placed a web banner that you can attach the link to. I
ask all SCV webmasters to put it on their sites. Notice that I have
not used the SCV logo on the banner, that way any of our friends, like
the UDC or OCR, can place it on their sites as well!
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