THE CHARLES YOUNG POST
AND VERNON PARK SOCIETY
Memorial
Weekend Saturday is the National Day of Honor and this is the 8th year
that Aces Museum has honored our veterans and their families. Come to Germantown to the Aces Museum for Black Veterans, opposite Pastorius Park May 24, 2014.
Noon to 5pm for tours and puppet shows. Program from 3pm
Special guests:
-Commander Stephen Sherman of the Dorrie Miller Foundation (he met Dorrie Miller during WW2)
-Veteran
Dr Doris “Lucky” Allen a female spy!
-Representatives from the Anne Frank family
We will be honoring
-Councilmember
Jannie Blackwell for her support of veterans, and her late husband, US
Congressman and Philadelphia Councilmember the Hon Lucien E Blackwell
(1931-2003), who served with the US Army in the Korean War
-Pennsylvania State
Representative Rosita
Youngblood
-Pennsylvania State
Representative Stephen Kinsey
-Pennsylvania State
Representative Vanessa Lowery-Brown, chair of the Pennsylvania Black Caucus
-Paramount Chief Methuselah Z O Bradley IV, honorary consul for the Republic of Sierra Leone
All are welcome! Donations gratefully accepted