Events

Nov
6
Wed
Us Marine Corps 244th Birthday Cake-Cutting Ceremony @ Chicago’s Veterans Home
Nov 6 @ 11:00 am

Come out to the site of the New Chicago Veterans Home for a CAKE Cutting Ceremony Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 1100 hrs.

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Dec
7
Sat
Pearl Harbor 78th Remembrance Memorial
Dec 7 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Pearl Harbor 78th Remembrance Memorial

The Once & Always Chicago Marines presents the 78th Remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor memorial program. Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 1pm at the American Legion & Sal located at 1824 W. Cortland St., Chicago IL 60622.

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Jan
25
Mon
Town Hall Meeting with Suzanne Gordon @ ZOOM
Jan 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Start: Monday, January 25, 2021 4:00 PM Central Standard Time (US & Canada) GMT-06:00)

This Meeting is on Zoom

Town Hall Meeting with Suzanne Gordon, author of Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope and The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care and Senior Policy Analyst, Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.

How to Push the Biden Administration to Reverse VA Privatization and Move Forward on Strengthening the VA for all Veterans and Their Families and Communities.

Suzanne will discuss the effort to undermine the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) by outsourcing patient care to the private sector. She will discuss the impact this will have on VHA as an integrated healthcare system. This will include a brief discussion of current and future legislation. The danger this poses to veterans and the need to mobilize against it will be emphasized.

Suzanne will discuss the most effective ways for veterans and their supporters to mobilize to reverse the privatization of the VHA, improve and strengthen it, and how to lobby for expanded services offered to veterans and their families, including the issue of “bad paper” discharges. VHA’s Fourth Mission (as a backup to the Public Health Care System) will also be discussed.

The session is scheduled for approximately one hour and there will be a question and answer period.

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Dec
3
Sat
81st Anniversary PEARL HARBOR Day of Remembrance 2022
Dec 3 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Invite to the 81st Anniversary PEARL HARBOR Day of Remembrance 2022.

The Once & Always Chicago Marines presents the 81st Remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor memorial program.  Saturday, December 3, 2021 at 11 am at the American Legion  located at 1824 W. Cortland St., Chicago IL 60622.

Mar
29
Wed
DePaul University’ College of Education Presents: The Arts & Healing @ DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus – Arts & Letters Building, Room 207
Mar 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Join DePaul University and Veterans Advocacy Group in honor of National Vietnam Veterans Day. The featured speaker will be author William V. Taylor with his book “On Full Automatic”. The story emerges from his personal experience and the accounts of other veterans who served with him during the heavy combat of 1967 and 1968.  https://williamvtaylor.com/

March 29, 2023 | 6-7:30 p.m.

DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus – Arts & Letters Building, Room 207

2315 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

The conversation facilitated by Dr. Horace Hall will highlight how storytelling and the arts can work together in healing through trauma.

Co-sponsored by the Coalition of Veterans Organizations (CVO).

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Jul
29
Sat
Korean War Veterans 70th ARMISTICE Salute of July 1953 @ Kennedy Park
Jul 29 @ 11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Join various Veterans and Communities as we come together to Salute Korean War Veterans of 7 decades this date, to show America, these heros will be foreever Remembered.

Saturday, July 29, 2023 @ 11:15 am to 12:45 pm at Kennedy Park, 11320 S. Western Ave.,Chicago, IL. 60643.

Dec
2
Sat
82nd Anniversary PEARL HARBOR Day of Remembrance 2023 @ Franklin Delano Roosevelt Post
Dec 2 @ 11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Invite to the 82nd Anniversary PEARL HARBOR Day of Remembrance 2023.

The Once & Always Chicago Marines presents the 82nd Remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor memorial program.  Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 11:15 am at the American Legion  located at 1824 W. Cortland St., Chicago IL 60622.

(photoCR: the Garden Island & CBS58)

Apr
27
Sat
Fall of SAIGON, 49th Commemoration official end to the Vietnam War @ American Legion Post 923
Apr 27 @ 10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Join with the Once & Always-Chicago MARINES; a Dress Blues org support of Veterans and Community to the AmLegion F.D. Roosevelt Post 923 in Chicago for the 49th year Commemoration to the official end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975.

 

 

Dec
7
Sat
Combined Veterans of Berwyn Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance 2024 @ Navy Pier
Dec 7 @ 7:30 am
Combined Veterans of Berwyn Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance 2024 @ Navy Pier

The Italian American War Veterans Post #1 Filippo Mazzei in cooperation with the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans invite you to a solemn ceremony to honor those men and women lost in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, “DECEMBER 7, 1941 – A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
Colors Presented by the American Legion Post 991, Worth, IL. at 0730hrs, East End of the Pier at Anchor on December 7, 2024.

83rd Anniversary PEARL HARBOR Day of Remembrance 2024 @ American Legion Post 923
Dec 7 @ 11:00 pm – Dec 8 @ 12:30 am

Please join us in camaraderie & support with a “Post Everlasting” memorial program remembering and honoring all warriors assigned to USS Naval Ships or stationed on land-base Ops at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii early Sunday morning on Dec 7, 1941. They are only forgotten if …We, fail to Remember them.

Uniform of the Day is: Comfort-casual

For inquires Veteran contact: Chicago MARINES info@OnceAndAlways.org
community groups contact: rose/CN rsunrise2@aol.com
This event is continuing with our prelude launch in recognition to our 250th US Marine Corps Birthday-Chicago in 2025, celebrating a quarter-century of service across the globe since 10 November 1775, as “America’s Crisis Response Team” …in the Air, on Land and by Sea. Semper Fidelis.