American Cold War Veterans Convention with USS Liberty Veterans

Update: See changes made in RED

There will be a $25.00 charge for the lunch on Saturday that follows the
membership meeting. 

We have made some changes this year for our Annual Meeting and Commemoration. This 

year it will be  held June 6-8 in Washington, DC

 We will lay a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial in honor of all those who suffered and 

died during the long struggle under the Communist regime.

We will also be joining with the USS Liberty Veterans Association in their 

Memorial Service for those lost during the attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

American Cold War Veterans Annual Meeting and Commemoration-06-08 June 2014

USS Liberty Veterans Association Commemoration

Business meetings, luncheon and address to be held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, 

1900 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209.

A special room rate of $89.00 is available to conferees. For those who wish to arrive

 early the room rate has been extended

it is now available from June 5 thru June 8 (with checkout June 9 at 12PM)

Please contact the hotel direct at (703) 807-2000 for reservations.  Mention that you 

are with the American Cold War Veterans

 If asked the block code is ACW

The hotel contact Ms. Melanie Smith may be reached by e-mail at 

Melanie.Smith@HIRosslyn.com

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 06, 2014

9:00 am-12:00 pm 12:00 pm-1:00 pm 1:30 pm-2:00 pm 3:00 pm-7:00 pm 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Congressional Visits Lunch-Dubliner Wreath-Laying: Victims of Communism Memorial Registration and Check-In at Holiday Inn Rosslyn Dinner (on your own) Hospitality

Saturday, June 07, 2014

7:30 am to 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 am to 10:00 am	Opening of ACWV Business Meeting
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am to 12:00 pm	ACWV Business Meeting Continues
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch-Speaker (tentative): Marion Smith, Executive Dir. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm	Transit to Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration;  USS Liberty Commemoration
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm	Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration;  USS Liberty Commemoration
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm	Transit to Holiday Inn Rosslyn
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm	Informal Social Hour Followed by Dinner-TBD

Sunday, June 08, 2014

7:30 am to 9:30 am	Breakfast and Religious Observance
9:30 am to 10:15 am	Transit to US Navy Memorial
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
11:30 am to 12:30 pm	Commemoration of the USS Liberty and Wreath-Laying- U.S. Navy Memorial
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm	Check Out-Holiday Inn Rosslyn
	EVENT COORDINATOR: CH (COL) Charles H. Nalls,  cnalls@canonlaw.org; 202-262-5519

We hope to see you there. If you plan to attend please advise Fr. Charles Nalls cnalls@cannonlaw.org, Frank Tims ftims@aol.com, Al Lepine

ajlepine@roadrunner.com or myself Jerry Terwilliger jerterw@hotmail.com

--- Jerald Terwilliger Chairman American Cold War Veterans "We Remember" ---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996

American Cold War Veterans Annual Meeting/USS Liberty

We have made some changes this year for our Annual Meeting and Commemoration. This year it will be
 held June 6-8

We will also be joining with the USS Liberty Veterans Association in their Memorial Service 
for those lost during the attack on June 8, 1967. 
We will also lay a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial.

American Cold War Veterans Annual Meeting and Commemoration-06-08 June 2014

USS Liberty Veterans Association Commemoration

Business meetings, luncheon and address to be held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, 
1900 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209.

A special room rate of $89.00 is available to conferees. 

Please contact the hotel direct at (703) 807-2000 for reservations. 
 Mention that you are with the American Cold War Veterans

The hotel contact Ms. Melanie Smith may be reached by e-mail at Melanie.Smith@HIRosslyn.com

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 06, 2014

9:00 am-12:00 pm 12:00 pm-1:00 pm 1:30 pm-2:00 pm 3:00 pm-7:00 pm 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Congressional Visits Lunch-Dubliner Wreath-Laying: Victims of Communism Memorial Registration and Check-In at Holiday Inn Rosslyn Dinner (on your own) Hospitality

Saturday, June 07, 2014

7:30 am to 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 am to 10:00 am	Opening of ACWV Business Meeting
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am to 12:00 pm	ACWV Business Meeting Continues
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch-Speaker (tentative): Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman, Victims of Communism  Memorial Foundation
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm	Transit to Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration;  USS Liberty Commemoration
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm	Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration; USS Liberty Commemoration
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm	Transit to Holiday Inn Rosslyn
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm	Informal Social Hour Followed by Dinner-TBD

Sunday, March 09, 2014

7:30 am to 9:30 am	Breakfast and Religious Observance
9:30 am to 10:15 am	Transit to US Navy Memorial
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
11:30 am to 12:30 pm	Commemoration of the USS Liberty and Wreath-Laying- U.S. Navy Memorial
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm	Check Out-Holiday Inn Rosslyn
	EVENT COORDINATOR: CH (COL) Charles H. Nalls,  cnalls@canonlaw.org; 202-262-5519

We hope to see you there. If you plan to attend please advise Fr. Charles Nalls cnalls@cannonlaw.org, Frank Tims ftims@aol.com, Al Lepine

ajlepine@roadrunner.com or myself Jerry Terwilliger jerterw@hotmal.com

---- Jerald Terwilliger Chairman American Cold War Veterans "We Remember" ---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996

American Cold War Veterans/USS Liberty Association Annual Meeting

We have made some changes this year for our Annual Meeting and Commemoration. This year it will be held June 6-8

We will also be joining with the USS Liberty Veterans Association in their Memorial Service for those lost during the

attack on June 8, 1967. We will also lay a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial.

American Cold War Veterans Annual Meeting and Commemoration-06-08 June 2014

USS Liberty Veterans Association Commemoration

Business meetings, luncheon and address to be held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, 1900 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209.

A special room rate of $89.00 is available to conferees. 

Please contact the hotel direct at (703) 807-2000 for reservations.  Mention that you are with the American Cold 

War Veterans

The hotel contact Ms. Melanie Smith may be reached by e-mail at Melanie.Smith@HIRosslyn.com

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 06, 2014

9:00 am-12:00 pm 12:00 pm-1:00 pm 1:30 pm-2:00 pm 3:00 pm-7:00 pm 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Congressional Visits Lunch-Dubliner Wreath-Laying: Victims of Communism Memorial Registration and Check-In at Holiday Inn Rosslyn Dinner (on your own) Hospitality

Saturday, June 07, 2014

7:30 am to 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 am to 10:00 am	Opening of ACWV Business Meeting
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am to 12:00 pm	ACWV Business Meeting Continues
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch-Speaker (tentative): Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm	Transit to Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration; USS Liberty Commemoration
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm	Arlington Cemetery Cold War Commemoration; USS Liberty Commemoration
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm	Transit to Holiday Inn Rosslyn
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm	Informal Social Hour Followed by Dinner-TBD

Sunday, March 09, 2014

7:30 am to 9:30 am	Breakfast and Religious Observance
9:30 am to 10:15 am	Transit to US Navy Memorial
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Break
11:30 am to 12:30 pm	Commemoration of the USS Liberty and Wreath-Laying-U.S. Navy Memorial
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm	Check Out-Holiday Inn Rosslyn
	EVENT COORDINATOR: CH (COL) Charles H. Nalls, cnalls@canonlaw.org; 202-262-5519

We hope to see you there. If you plan to attend please advise Fr. Charles Nalls cnalls@cannonlaw.org, Frank Tims ftims@aol.com, Al Lepine

ajlepine@roadrunner.com or myself Jerry Terwilliger jerterw@hotmal.com

---- Jerald Terwilliger Chairman American Cold War Veterans "We Remember" ---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996

MIA/POW SecDef Chuck Hagel Wants Them Found Quicker

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has ordered the Pentagon to reorganize its efforts to account for
U.S. troops missing in action from wars fought on foreign lands. He has ordered that a single agency
be formed in order to improve the accountability and speed the recovery and identity of remains.

Congress has been pressuring DoD to increase it's efforts to account for the more than 83,000 missing
US service personnel. There are 126 from the Cold War, 73,000 from WWII, more than 7,5000 from Korea, more than 1,600 from Vietnam, and the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Military Personnel
lists 5 from Iraq and the Persian Gulf.

The Pentagon spends about $100 million a year to find and identify the remains of about 70 people
a year, but there is a congressional mandate to increase its capacity to 200 annually by fiscal year
2015 beginning in October.

In a Pentagon news conference Sec. Hagel said, "There's not a more poignant, emotional, important
issue in our society today..than you take care of the people who gave their lives to this country,
and that you take care of their families."


"We will continue to do everything we can to account for and bring as many of our missing
and fallen service personnel as possible home here to the United States," he said.

In a report last year the Government Accounting Office said the effort to recover and identify
missing military personnel was "undermined by longstanding leadership weakness and a
fragmented organizational structure."

Hagel has ordered that the Pentagon is to consolidate two different offices, as well as part of an
Air Force laboratory into a single agency to be headed by a civilian appointee.

The new organization will be responsible for all communications with family members of
troops missing from past conflicts, giving them a single point of contact for information.

The agency will create a centralized database and case management system to track information
about missing troops. There will be a single medical examiner named as the authority responsible
for identification.

The American Cold War Veterans have long fought for, and petitioned congress to mandate
a complete accountability from foreign countries where our missing might be located.

Of the more than 83,000 U.S. military personnel still missing some 43,000 are considered
unrecoverable without additional information or the discovery of new technologies.

The need is there, why cannot a means be found to locate and identify the remains. There
should be a consolidated effort between the Pentagon and other outside groups, universities,
people doing research work on genealogy, or those searching for lost planes.

If you the mother of a missing loved on and you have not yet done so, it is important that you
supply a sample of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to your case worker or contact the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC)


It is so very important to the families and loved ones of those who are missing that every
available avenue, and every effort made to bring home our missing and bring closure to
those who wait and wonder: Where is my loved one? Is it possible they are still alive?

For those who are still among the missing You Are Not Forgotten, we will always remember.


---- Jerald Terwilliger Chairman American Cold War Veterans "We Remember" ---------------- "And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades." -- Robert M. Gates, 1996

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