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San Diego, California

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2023 Tent #5 Memorial Day Essay Contest Winner!
Eric Sanborn - 8th Grade
& Michael Jean
History Teacher @ John Muir Language Academy

THE MEANING OF MEMORIAL DAY By : Eric Sanborn

What is Memorial day, and what does it mean to me? To some people, just a day o from school, to others it’s a day where they can honor the soldiers who fought and died for our country. As a person who has both a father and grandfather who fought in wars, I have grown more fond of Memorial day as I get older, and can now appreciate what the day really means, even though getting a day o of school is very nice. Let me give you my point of view, one day at school the teacher was asking us what we wanted to be when we grow up, many people said they wanted to be an author, a teacher, a doctor, but then the teacher asked us if we wanted to become a soldier, or a military leader so that we can fight for our country. Not a single person raised their hand. We all know the consequences of working in the army, you can get shell shocked, amputated, PTSD, brain injuries, third degree burns, loss of sight and hearing, paralysis and more. But most terrifying of all, you could die. When you go onto the battlefield, you have a high probability of dying, and you could never see your loved ones again, and if you do survive, what are the chances you come back missing an arm, your sight, or your very sanity. The thought of war is scary, but the thought of being a victim of war is horrifying. And yet, many people join. Some join for a chance to get glory, some join because they have too, some join because they’re siblings or parents fought and they want to follow their example, some join for the thrill, but some join because they love their country, and are willing to die for it. As I said earlier, Memorial day is a day where we try to remember all the brave soldiers who fought for this country. We try to remember the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary war, Civil war, World War 1, World War 2, the Vietnam war, and all the other 100 wars, 4 of which are still ongoing. With that said, we can’t remember them all, millions of American troops have fought and died, it would be impossible to remember each and every single one, which when you think about it, is kind of sad. Think about it, many years ago, in the 1900’s, there was a man, he had an african-american wife and 2 children, but one day he had to go to the army to fight in world war 2, he died shortly after, leaving a wife and 2 kids behind. That man was my grandfather. Years later now, the wife, my grandma, is still alive, but she went into a state of depression, and got very overweight. The kids grew up with no father figure, and got bullied because racism was still very strong in the 1900’s, and they had no father to protect them. There are millions of others like them, each with their own stories. What about the african american son who left his mother and siblings behind to fight in the civil war and never came back, what about the mother in Iraq who died in an explosion and left her kid orphaned, the sister who left her sickly brother in a hospital and promised to come back and yet never did. Most of them won’t be remembered, we try to remember all of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect us, but we won’t know what else they sacrificed, or the result of their death and the people they left behind. America has survived and grown because of them, we feel safe because we know that if America ever needs protection, we can count on our U.S army. Be grateful for that, for them. So next time Memorial day comes, try to remember them, sit for a while and just be grateful, because that is what Memorial day means, to pay your respects for the people who died for us, for this country, to respect everything they sacrificed and lost, and what they left behind for us, for America.

June 13, 2023 Kathleen Winchester, President Tent 5
Michelle Johnson, Chaplain Tent 5
Adele Lancaster, Vice President General NSDAR
Joanne Murphy, DAR
Jane Zoch, Patriotic Instructor Tent #5
Lillian Leslie, DAR

December 2022 San Diego City views from across the bay at Tom Hamm's Light House Holiday Luncheon

April 2022 Member Linda Dreher paid a visit to the DUVCW Headquarters and Stephenson Library in Springfield, Illinois

Flowers from the
"Sunshine Fund"
Delivered by
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Chaplin Michele Johnson
to member
Darlene Magdaluyo

April 26, 2022

Nancy Hanks Lincoln Celebrates 113 years!

Wreaths Across America December 2020

Remembrance trees tags in honor of our members' ancestor Civil War heroes have been placed in section DUVCW on the Balsam Valley Tip Land in Jonesboro, Maine. The ancestor's trees will stand as their living memorial for the lifetime of the tree. Their trees will be tipped every three years and those tips will be used to make veterans remembrance wreaths that will be placed on other veterans' graves across the country on National Wreaths Across America Day.
We have 46 trees, one for each of our ancestors, in our own grove, exclusively for DUVCW Nancy Hanks Lincoln Tent 5 San Diego.

September 17, 2020

Kathleen Winchester President
DUVCW San Diego Tent 5

It is traditional to "Ring the Bell" for the Constitution across the Nation every
year on September 17. The ringing takes place at 1:00 PM in the East which
makes it 4:00 in San Diego. Kathleen rang the bell in her front yard for the
Constitution and for the Nation - for the freedoms we Americans enjoy every day!

13th Annual Memorial Day Celebration, May 27, 2019

Susan Zimmer, Vice President; Kathleen Winchester, President;
Juliana Winchester, Essay Contest Winner and Leona Amerman, Treasurer

Monday April 15, 2019

Kathleen Winchester, President
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Tent 5
has been awarded the prestigious
MOWW (Military Order of World Wars)
" Silver Patrick Henry Award "
for her volunteer work in Patriotism.
The award was presented by
Ted Parsons, President
MOWW San Diego
in a ceremony which took place on
Monday April 15, 2019.

L to R Carrie Beinart, Emily Wichmann, Jenee Wallace, Robyn Gephart, Kathleen Ann Winchester, Debbi Zacharzuk, Leslie McLaughlin, Signa Wilcox (Kathleen's 92 yr old aunt),
and Leona Amerman.

Tent 5 - 110th Anniversary Celebration, March 26, 2019

Anniversary Announcement Kathleen Winchester Tent 5 Banner President

Honored Guest Carole Morton, Board of Trustees Chairman and Past National President of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865,
won the beautiful patriotic blanket hand made by Leona Amerman, Treasurer, Tent 5.
Proceeds benefit San Diego Pets for Vets.

Members of Nancy Hanks Lincoln Tent 5
L/R Sitting Louise Jefferis, Historian, Kathleen Winchester, President,
Carol Moon, Press Correspondent, Mary Kirk, Membership
L/R Standing Dorothy Traver, Donna Derrick, Linda Dreher, Chaplain, Kathleen Marshall, Wanda Prosser, Barbara Ivory, Secretary, Darlene Magdaluyo, Karon Jarrard,
Leona Amerman, Treasurer, Alison Harding, and Debra Durland

Display of flags, pictures, books, artifacts, history and mementos

Meeting Celebration with members and invited guests

Speakers Kathleen Winchester President, Linda Dreher, Chaplain
and Louise Jefferis, Historian

Members and guests enjoyed a catered luncheon provided by Boston Market
with a few side dishes popular in 1909
and a celebration anniversary cake!!

Wreaths Across America, December 15th, 2018

Memorial Day Celebration Mt. Hope Cemetery San Diego, California 2017

photography by Richard Schulte https://coolsandiegosights.com/2017/05/30/photos-of-memorial-day-at-mount-hope-cemetery/

A Replacement Head Stone for Civil War Patriot Henry Neal Fletcher
Mt. Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California ~ purchased by DUVCW Tent 5

Grand Army of the Republic at Mt. Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California

Bennington Memorial Project, Balboa Park, San Diego, California

Sock donation to Chula Vista Veterans Home,
Whale Watching and
Holiday Celebration 2017

Top Left: Chula Vista Veteans's Home Administrators, Barbara Ibaibarriaga and Ellen Rabin; Top Right: whale watching on San Diego Bay; Bottom Left: Carol Moon, Barbara Ibaibrriaga, Leona Amerman, Joan Largey, Elly Rbin, Carrie Beinart, Darlene Magdaluyo, Dorothy Traver, Susan Zimmer, Mary Kirk, Louise Jefferis and Kathleen Winchester; Bottom Right: Darlene Magdaluyo, Susan Zimmer, Barbara Ibaibarriaga, Leona Amerman and Carol Moon.

The last holiday luncheon with our very own "REAL" granddaughter, 97 year old Joan Largey (now deceased). Joan lived with her Grandfather when she was a little girl and heard about the Civil War first hand from him. Her Patriot was Pvt. Daniel Webster Hixson, Co C, 30th Iowa Infantry.

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California

Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial, La Jolla, San Diego, California