COMMUNITY NEWS
Post your community related announcements here to reach the entire Franklin/Brentwood Community.
Examples of community related announcements are: Specical events, fundraisers for your high school, college, church, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts. Elks, Moose. Chamber of Commerce, scholarships for the education of your children, youth oriented baseball or other athletic events, etc.
Other examples of community related announcements: Disabled veterans needing rides to keep their medical appointments. Veteran Spouses with babies, needing minor home repairs, batteries installed in their alarm systems. Veteran wives needing baby sitters during an emergency.
If your announcements serves a benefit or improves the community quality of life, is legal, Post 156, at its sole discretion. may post your announcement. Except for emergencies allow two weeks notice prior to the event date. Send the announcements to the webmaster@legionpost156.org.
Pavers for Veterans at 5 points in Franklin, TN: Memorial pavers are normally $65.00. Mr. Ken Marshall, Williamson County Tennessee Veterans Service Officer has offered to sell the pavers for $40.00 if a group of 3 or more members of the American Legion and/or VFW Posts get together and order pavers. The pavers are a memorial to the veterans who have passed away, not for those still living. If a paver is ordered for a veteran who is still living, the purchaser will be given a certificate that can be used to obtain a paver in the future.
Mr. Marshall can be reached at (615) 790-5623 from 8:00a.m. to noon, Monday through Wednesday only.
The veterans do not have to be or have been residents of Williamson County. A paver can be purchased for a relative that lived elsewhere.
Veterans Home/Nursing Home Care Benefits: "Aid and Attendance" is an underutilized special monthly pension benefit offered by the Veterans Administration for veterans and surviving spouses who require in-home care or live in nursing homes. To qualify, a veteran (includes the surviving spouse) must have served at least 90 days of active military service, one day of which is during a period of war, and must be discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. The veteran's benefit is $18,234 annually (paid monthly) and increases to $21,615 if a veteran has one dependent. The surviving spouse alone is $11,715 annually.
For more information, call 1-800-827-1000, visit http://www.va.gov (type "Aid and Attendance" in the search block), or contact your local VA office. You can also apply on-line at http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp.
Veterans can now Salute the Flag: A Congressional Amendment sponsored by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) in the National Defense Authoriation Act for Fiscal Year 2009 specifically states that "members of the Armed Forces and Veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute." Veterans can salute the flag during the national Anthem as well as during "the hoisting, lowering and passing of the flag."
"Veterans and service members continue representing the military services even when not inuniform. The U.S. Code is now consistent for Veterans and all service members in regards to the symbolic gesture of the military salute."
