John Khoury, Love Company – The 100th Infantry Division This Month’s Guest Speaker

Invocation – Going Home by Elmer Ake Read by George Stiftinger
Finally, Father, I am free going home to my land from across the sea. The years have passed so slowly by since the day I came here to die. Is there no one alive who recalls that I was missing in action, and had to cry? Fifty-four years ago, I met my fate ~ Nineteen years old and full of hate. Hate for the ones who brought me here far from the ones I hold dear. I have forsaken hope, no cause to cheer in my unmarked grave year after year. Seventy five thousand buddies are MIA's whether on land or beneath the waves, no one knows where you sleep ~ over your grave no loved ones weep. Only waves wash over the ships sunk deep and memories are all we have to keep. Long years ago this nation's youth joined the cause to preserve the truth. We heard the cries of our fellow man, when our leaders called we said, "we can." With our arms, into battle we ran we gave our lives for our beloved land. We saw our cause and beheld our duty gave our lives for honor, not for booty. America is called the land of the brave on Memorial Day the flag we died to save flies at half mast over honored graves ~ over unmarked graves, nothing waves. But I am going home at last just a memory from the long ago past. After all these years, I was finally found I'm going home from this cursed ground. And on Memorial Day when Taps sound another MIA will be homeward bound. © Elmer Ake

Future Programs at the Abington WWII Lecture Series Coordinator – Brandon Traister

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007	Afternoon Program - A B-17 Pilot and former POW	Craig Shields
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007	Evening Program - A Memoir of WWII (8th Airforce)	Charley McCracken
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007	Afternoon Program - 6th Marine Division at Okinawa	Eric Turner
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007	Evening Program – 4th Marine Division at Iwo Jima	Henry Apice
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007	Wounded/ Captured at Normandy with the 90th INF Div	Bob Levine
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007	Captured at Sicily with the 82nd Airborne	Tim Dyas
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007	B-24s in the Pacific “Snoopers”	Stephen Perrone
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007	Ten Year Anniversary Dinner at Williamson’s Restaurant
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007	Afternoon Program – A German Luftwaffe Pilot and POW	Gottfried Dulias
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007	Evening Program - P-47 Fighter Pilot in the 9th Airforce	Charlie Osborne
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007	Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Attacks	Tom Kimmel
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008	The First Team – WWII Naval Aviation	Jim Krombach

Programs are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 3:00PM and at 7:00PM. Please contact Brandon Traister at BrandonTraister@aol.com or 856-296-9256 if you have any ideas for future lectures at the Abington Township Library.Please note that we are not only looking for WWII Veterans, but also for veterans and survivors who lived and served during any armed conflicts to share their memories and experiences with our audience.

Abington WWII Lecture Series Ten Year Anniversary Dinner Williamson’s Restaurant
Save the date… we will be celebrating our ten-year anniversary at Williamson’s Restaurant in Hatboro, PA on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 from 6:00PM to 9:00PM. We will have a panel of former guest speakers of our lecture series. Cost will be twenty dollars per person and will include a full dinner. Sign up sheets will be in the back of the room at future lectures. You may also contact Brandon Traister by phone (856-296-9256), e-mail (BrandonTraister@aol.com), or regular mail (1324 Lincoln Drive, Voorhees, NJ 08043) to sign up. This will replace our October program at the Abington Library. Please make note: There will be no October program at the Abington Library.

Further Reading - Future Programs at the Abington WWII Lecture Series

		Tuesday, May 15th, 2007, Evening Program - A Memoir of WWII (8th Airforce), Charley McCracken, www.studiocharley.com, charley@studiocharley.com
		Tuesday, July 17th, 2007, Wounded/ Captured at Normandy with the 90th INF Div, Bob Levine Tuesday, August 21st, 2007, Captured at Sicily with the 82nd Airborne, Tim Dyas, www.chichipress.com, www.tankbooks.com
		Tuesday, September 18th, 2007, B-24s in the Pacific “Snoopers,” Stephen Perrone, www.publishershomepages.com Tuesday, November 20th, 2007, Afternoon Program – A German Luftwaffe Pilot and POW, Gottfried Dulias, Another Bowl of Kapusta, www.amazon.com, www.authorhouse.com Tuesday, December 18th, 2007, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Attacks, Tom Kimmel, www.pearlharbor911attacks.com