Friday, January 23, 2009

Taking Chance

Kevin Bacon stars in "Taking Chance", true story, based on the first-person account of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl (USMC), the film chronicles his poignant journey as the volunteer military escort officer who is assigned to accompany the body of 19-year-old Lance Corporal Chance Phelps (USMC), who was killed in action in Iraq, across America back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming in spring 2004.

http://www.hbo.com/events/takingchance/

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Kick Off Meeting

Hello Everyone!

I have been working with Sam Seelbach to set up a Veteran– Military ERG (VMERG) chapter here at HDQ. Sam is the VMERG Chairperson and works at the SERO. I know we have a lot folks here at HDQ already doing this type of charity work so this is an opportunity to bring everyone together under the sponsorship of AA’s Diversity Advisory Council.

You can read about the VMERG on jetnet:
https://amrmail.aa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=92133add4c514b869faf7273a63ba437&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jetnet.aa.com%2fjetnet%2fjps%2fdisplayArticle.asp%3fUserID%3d82565%26id%3d67975%26SB%3d2

We will have a kick off meeting on Thursday, December 19th at 0900 in the private dining room to elect officers for our chapter and share ideas. Sam will be here to speak about AMR's newest ERG!

We will also have an information table during lunch in the cafeteria on the 18th to promote VMERG and sign up new members. If anyone is interested in helping out with the table, let me know. If you know of others at HDQ who would be interested in joining VMERG ask them to send me an e-mail so I can add them to the distribution list.

In the meantime, we are sponsoring two local military families during the holidays. Please contact Paulette McKnight if you would like to contribute.

Regards,
James Robertson

Drawn by one of AA's Flight Attendants

What a beautiful dedication to our troops! Thank you Lisa!