Veteran 11 03 2016

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VOL. 5/ISSUE 1

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Distinguished general to be keynote speaker at Honor Flight event

La dolce vita ~ The Sweet Life

FOR VETERAN VOICE

There will be a special Veterans Day Appreciation Dinner, Abacoa Golf Club, 105 Barbados Drive, Jupiter, Nov. 11 to help ensure that World War II and Korean War veterans are able to be flown to Washington, D.C., to visit their war memorials at no cost to themselves. Sponsored by Southeast Florida Honor Flight, cocktails will be served at 5:30 p.m., and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Attire is dressy casual. The keynote speaker, Lt. Gen. Joseph P. DiSalvo, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Army, serves Joseph Di Salvo as the Military Deputy Commander of U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Florida. DiSalvo brings 35 years of exemplary military service, beginning with graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Prior to his current assignment, he was the Commander of U.S. Army South, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

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Photo by Tech Sgt. Nancy Falcon Air Force Airman 1st Class Giorgia Repici, an air traffic controller with the 71st Operations Support Squadron, poses for a photo in the radar approach control facility at Vance Air Force Base, Okla. Repici grew up listening to her father tell stories about his adventures as a C-130J Super Hercules pilot in the Italian air force. SEE STORY ON PAGE 9

Sanford and other communities ready Veterans Day events and rededications Patrick McCallister FOR VETERAN VOICE

pmccallister@veteranvoiceweekly.com

Veterans Day is nearly here. There are numerous memorial services and related events in South and Central Florida to attend. A popular Veterans Day memorial service in Central Florida is in Sanford. “It will be Friday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m.,” said Jennifer Brooks, special events supervisor at the City of Sanford. Sanford has its annual Veterans Day service at Veterans Memorial Park, 110 E. Seminole Blvd. “Our Veterans Memorial Park juts out into the St. Johns River, Lake Monroe,” Brooks said. Which adds greatly to the visual and auditory beauty and grandeur of the ceremony. “The Sheriff’s Office gives us a helicopter

flyover that dips over a large, granite eagle (statue) we have in the park,” she said. Brooks, an Operation Desert Shield/Storm Army veteran, said the annual event has been around longer any city workers can remember. She said the enduring tradition has much to do with Sanford’s deep patriotism and embrace of its military history. “We’re a surprisingly strong veterans’ town,” Brooks said. “They sort of consider us a Navy town. We used to have a Navy airbase here.” That was from 1942 to the late 1960s. The Orlando Sanford International Airport was built as the Naval Air Station Sanford less than a year after America’s entry into World War II. It served a variety of functions until the Orlando Air Force Base was transferred to the Navy and turned into the Naval Train-

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