Comrades:
This year's motto: "We CAN We Must, Succeed"
Our emphasis this year will be TECHNOLOGY, MEMBERSHIP, and PROGRAMS. The Department as a whole will need to change in the way we do our communications, as spread out as we are we need real time information not 3 to 4 days later. So my goal as the Commander will be to see that every Post and Districts’ have away to receive Emails. In a nut shell we will be in touch at the tip of our fingers. I believe that this will help in recruitment and help us get out into our Communities and Schools to promote our programs faster. I know you have appointed the best chairmen’s , those that are willing to promote Community Service, Safety, Americanism, Voice of democracy, Children and Youth and Most important Membership and talk about and Promote the programs that our great organization has to offer. Your program chairmen’s will reflect the job you have done as a Commander and a Member. Remember, successful programs can also make for successful Recruiting and Retention to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Comrades, as we journey through this coming year together please use my motto. Ask any and all eligible Veterans to join our organization not only to better it, but to make it stronger in Unity. I need not remind you it is the Veterans of today that will make the Veterans of Foreign Wars of tomorrow.
On behalf of my Department Officers and Myself, I would like to thank all of you. I look forward to working with all of you in the coming year.
Yours in Comradeship
Ronald Tallman Commander
Department of Vermont
