Your Central Florida Chapter has been busy helping veterans in our local community this past month. We have two members of our Central Florida Chapter who sit on the Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield Retired Soldiers Council and sponsor the annual Retiree Appreciation Day (RAD) held at UCF on May 18th. COL Kin LaFate (in photo) is the Co-Chair and CW5 (ret) Bob Letendre is a council member. MAJ (ret) Lorraine Holland and Patricia Green set-up a MOAA table to help spread the word on the good deeds MOAA provides to our military and their families. The event attracted nearly 1,000 veterans and their families!
Also held on May 18th was the Armed Forces Day at the Museum of Military History in Kissimmee. LtCol Al and Ruth Schroeder and Lin Welch set up tables for our veteran artists to display and sell their artwork. You have to give them and the artists a lot of credit for weathering 95 degree heat for most of the day, outdoors! Many thanks to all for displaying and informing others about the alternative art therapy available to our veterans through the VA!
Our Veteran Artist Eladio Chavez (with the hat) painted his interpretation of the actress playing Joan of Arc and presented the portrait to the Shakespeare Theater on May 14th.
