[ AGENDA MILITARY AND VETERANS COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road February 22, 2023 6:00 P.M. ]
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UM, TONIGHT FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A FORM SEEMS, UM, SO WE'RE GONNA CALL A MEETING AS, UM, CANCELLATION.
SO THERE'LL BE NO MEETING CALL ORDER.
UM, HOWEVER, UM, I BELIEVE I'LL LET, UM, UM, CHARLES, I'M SORRY, MR. I WANTED TO SAY, I'LL LET CHARLES INTRODUCE THERE.
WE'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE GROUP AS AN ARTIFICIAL, THERE MAY BE NO MEANING MINUTES ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR, UM, UM, PRESENTATION.
SO, BUT, UM, OUTTA RESPECT, WE DON'T WANT HER TO WASTE HER TIME TO COME IN HERE, KIND OF SPEAK SPEAKY AFTER THIS TIME.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL LET CHARLES INTRODUCE.
UH, SO TODAY WE HAVE HERE, UH, MS. MONTGOMERY, SHE'S WITH, UH, STILL HER ENTIRE, SORRY, PEOPLE HERE TODAY.
AND, UH, LINDSAY IS ONE OF MY, UM, TEAMMATES, UM, WHICH IS SEAN ROBERTS.
UM, HE'S OUR DEPUTY OVER THERE, OUR SECURITY.
SO HE'S ON THE ARMY VETERAN, RIGHT? YES, CORRECT.
SO, UM, SO I WON'T, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS KIND OF HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING SO I WON'T, YOU KNOW, KIND OF GO, UM, OFF THE BEATEN PATH, RIGHT?
UM, AND THIS CHARLES, I WAS TELL YOU MARCUS.
CAUSE I HAVE LITTLE NAME MARCUS, SO CHARLES MARCUS.
UM, WELL THAT'S JUST LIKE AARON.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH.
UM, MARCUS AND, UH, HUBER HEIGHTS MILITARY AND VETERAN COMMISSION.
UM, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ABOUT MY ORGANIZATION THAT CELEBRATES MILITARY VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, THEN MY NAME IS MARYAM MONTGOMERY, FOUNDER AND CEO OF INVITED FOUNDATION, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED AS A TRIBUTE TO MY DAD, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2014.
STAFF SERGEANT RICHARD L WESTER SINGER, WHO SERVED THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FOR 20 YEARS, AND CIVIL ENGINEER FOR 16, FOR THE TOTAL OF 30 16 YEARS.
INVITED FED FOUNDATION MISSION IS TO HELP VETERANS TELL THEIR STORY AND CONNECT WITH OTHER VETERANS THROUGH OUR EACH ONE TEACH ONE TALKS THAT ARE HELD QUARTERLY AT THE TJ CHUMPS IN HUBER HEIGHTS, OHIO.
NAVIGATING MILITARY LIFE TO CIVILIAN LIFE CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR SUN.
IN THE, IN THE MILITARY, YOU HAVE WELL DEFINED ROLES, PAST MISSIONS, HIERARCHY AND CAMARADERIE, THINGS THAT ARE SOMETIMES HARD TO FIND IN CIVILIAN LIFE.
IN MY WEEKLY NINE TO FIVE LIFE, I COME ACROSS VETERANS PURCHASING AND SELLING HOMES.
VETERANS WHO SUFFERS FROM PTSD, PTS D FROM MY OBSERVATION, EIGHT OUT OF 10 ARE SUFFERING WITH DISABILITY, HEALTH ISSUES, LOTS OF FAMILY LONELINESS, LOTS OF JOBS.
A MAN TOLD ME THE MILITARY'S LIKE TALKING ABOUT HIS MOTHER, ABOUT YOUR MOTHER.
YOU CAN'T SAY IN WHAT YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANNA SAY ABOUT ME, BUT DON'T SAY NOTHING BAD ABOUT THE MILITARY.
MY MISSION IS TO ALSO ADVOCATE FOR THE MILITARY VETERAN AND REALTORS TO RECEIVE RECOGNITION AND BENEFITS FROM THE BOARD THAT HOLDS THEIR LICENSE.
INVITED VET FOUNDATION CELEBRATION WAS IN 2015.
THAT WAS OUR FIRST ONE, AND IT WAS AT THE EVENT CONNECTION.
I WAS PLANNING FOR 40 PEOPLE AND 80 PLUS PEOPLE SHOWED UP.
WE HAD THE, UM, JUNIOR ROTC FROM WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL TO PRESENT THE COLORS.
RETIREES FROM THE BAND OF FLIGHT WAS THE ENTERTAINMENT.
A RETIRED MILITARY VETERAN, BALLROOM BANDS, COUPLE FOOD AND BEVERAGE.
DAD LOVED BEING A BANK FRIEND AND HE LOVED ENTERTAINMENT.
LAST YEAR WAS OUR SECOND CELEBRATION AT THE AMERICA PACKARD MUSEUM.
WE PLANNED FOR ABOUT 180 AND WE WERE HONORED TO SERVE 220 VETERANS WITH COMPLIMENTARY DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT.
OUR BIG EVENT THIS YEAR IS THE HORROR SHOW, JUNE THE 10TH.
SO WHEN I, UM, RECEIVED MY DAD'S CAR, UM, BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY, IT WAS THE 1978 CADILLAC SEVILLE, AND HE ASKED ME, WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO WITH
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THE CAR? AND I SAID, SHOW IT.SO THAT IS ONE OF THE, UM, THINGS THAT I WANNA HONOR MY DAD.
BUT ALSO, SO THE CAR SHOW IS GONNA BE AT THE POLISH CLUB PICNIC GROUNDS ON NOVEMBER.
THIS, UH, ON NEMORE ROAD, WE WILL HAVE GREAT ENTERTAINMENT.
UM, WE WILL HAVE ABOUT ONE OR TWO CARS FROM THE AMERICA PACKER WITH, SO I REACHED OUT TO STU, WHO IS THE MANAGER FOR THE, UM, PACK MUSEUM, AND HE COULD DEFINITELY DO AGREE SOME CARS THAT ARTS CRAFT BOOBS, UM, FOOD TRUCKS, VINTAGE GAR WINE TASTING, CHILDREN'S SHELTER WITH GAMES AND ACTIVITIES, RAFFLE PRICES, VETERAN INFORMATIONAL BOOBS.
WE ARE TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR VENDORS.
SO IF YOU KNOW OF A VENDOR WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAR SHOW, WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO REACH OUT TO US.
UM, SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR FOOD TRUCKS, ART, ART AND CRAFT VENDORS.
WE ALSO NEED CARS TO BE SUCCESSFUL, HAVE A SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
SO IF YOU HAVE A CAR THAT YOU WANNA SHOW BRING OUT TO THE EVENT, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
THIS EVENT IS OUR, ALSO OUR FUNDRAISER FOR THE 2024 INVITED VET GALA.
NOW REMEMBER I SAID THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SERVE 220 VETERANS THIS YEAR, LAST YEAR AT THE AMERICAN PACKER MUSEUM, WHICH WAS TOO TIGHT THERE.
SO I SAID, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING BIGGER AND BETTER.
SO NEXT YEAR IT'S GOING TO BE AT THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM.
UM, THE ENTRY FOR THE CAR SHOW IS ONLY $5, WHICH INCLUDES FIVE RAFFLE TICKETS.
AND SO WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN FOR ALLOWING ME AND MY TEAM TO SHARE OUR ORGANIZATION MISSION AND PURPOSE.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT, EITHER MONETARILY, COMING TO THE EVENT AND SHARING YOUR STORY.
OUR NEXT, EACH ONE TEACH ONE TALK AT THE TJ CHUMPS IS MAY 1ST, AND THAT'S WITH RETIRED COLONEL, DR.
AND SHE WILL BE SPEAKING TO THE 2023 JUNIOR RTC SENIORS, NAVIGATING LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL.
BEGIN FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR SERVICE.
SO, UM, IT, IT'S FOR GRANTING, RIGHT? OKAY.
SO WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, CLASSIC CARD, MUSCLE CAR, UM, CARD.
SO THE ACTUAL FUNCTION WE CALL IT? YES.
YEAH, WE GAVE YOU, UM, FLYER WANT OR ANYTHING.
HOW DOES SOMEBODY JOIN MY OUTFIT AS A VOLUNTEER? YOU JOIN MY OUTFIT.
MAY 1ST, CAN WE JUST WALK IN? JUST WALK IN, JUST LET ME KNOW.
UM, IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO COME, LET ME JUST GO, HIT ME.
GIVE YOU, SO, UM, WHEN YOU, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COME, I HAVE YOU REGISTER IN AND, UH, SO, AND THEN I CAN PUT YOU ON THE LIST.
AND HOW LONG HAVE IT IN MY HAS BEEN, IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2015.
AND, UM, SO IT WAS, I ALL WANTED TO HONOR MY DAD.
SO THIS ACCOUNT ACTUALLY, YES.
AND SO, UM, I HAD POWER ATTORNEY TO, HE WANTED TO COME BACK HERE, YOU KNOW, DYING.
SO WE WANTED TO COME BACK HERE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, SO, YOU KNOW, YES.
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SO, UM, THROUGH ALL THAT, I, UM, HAD A BANK ACCOUNT, MY DAD, AND, UH, SO WHEN HE PASSED, I HAD TO CLOSE THE BANK ACCOUNT, MY SIBLING MONEY.SO I'M LIKE, OKAY, WHAT WOULD DAD WANT? AND SO I'M BEING A VETERAN, SO IT'S A CELEBRATION FOR VETERANS.
SO I, UM, STARTED THAT IN INVITE.
SO I MADE THIS INVITE EVENT AND I SAID, OUR FIRST ONE, WE WERE PLANNING FOR PEOPLE AND DAD LIKE ENTERTAINMENT, LIKE YOU LOVE TO DANCE.
AND SO I HAD A BALLROOM DANCE COUPLE WITH DISTRICT BIG DANCE FROM THE DANCE LIGHT AND BALLROOMS. AND SO EVERYBODY'S, THERE WERE, SO MY FIRST ONE, UM, THE ARM MEMBER RAISING US, WHO HEARD ABOUT IT? SO THE VETERAN FROM THEIR CALLED, I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY GONNA BRING.
SO, UM, SO YOU KNOW, WHEN, SO NEXT ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN 2020.
AND I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA GET SPONSOR TO DO THE NEXT.
AND SO IN 20 WE WERE SUPPOSED HAVE, AND SO WE WEREN'T ABLE TO HAPPEN UNTIL LAST YEAR.
AND UM, SO WE WERE GOING TO, WE DID START OUT AT, AT 50 AND THEN ABLE FOR IT.
AND, UM, SO INSTEAD OF HUNDRED 80, 200 AND WE WERE, WE HAD VETERANS FROM UM, NOW MY DAD'S VIETNAM, SO WE HAD VETERANS, THE VIETNAM, UM, STORM ON OUR FLIGHT VETERANS REPAIR.
UM, BEAR STONE FROM BEAVER CREEK ROCK IS THROUGH, UM, I MEAN I HAD HONOR EARTH FLIGHT, YOU KNOW, HE'S CALLING ME THE DAY BEFORE AND HE'S LIKE, WELL, I'M BRINGING SIX, FOUR PEOPLE AND YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
HE SAID, YOU'RE NOT GONNA TELL ME TO TELL.
HE WAS LIKE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA TELL ME I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
SO, UM, SO FROM THERE STARTED FROM THIS BEING A CELEBRATION.
UM, LIKE I SAID, IN MY NINE TO FIVE JOB, I, I REAL ESTATE AND I COME ACROSS AND THEY HAVE, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, UM, SO WE ALL HAVE STORIES AND STUFF AND YOU KNOW, I COME ACROSS, YOU KNOW, AND OUR EACH, OUR THIRD ONE AND WE HAD, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND HOW THAT CAME ABOUT IS THAT A GENTLEMAN THAT I, UM, HAD A, HE WAS, AND ACTUALLY VERY ODD, AND YOU KNOW, HIS WIFE I DIVORCE AND THEN HE, AFTER HIS WIFE SIGNED OFF AND HE, AND HE APOLOGIZED.
I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THAT WAS UNTIL I STARTED RESEARCHING.
AND UM, THEN HE STARTED TELLING ME HE
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WANTED DID.AND SO I TOLD HIM, YOU KNOW, AND SO HE, SO, CAUSE MY DAD DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THIS FIRST TIME.
HE DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, UM, AND WHEN I HAD TO SETTLE UP MISTAKE AND ALL THIS STUFF, I JUST WISH I WOULD'VE DONE.
I WOULD GOTTEN, WOULD'VE NEVER, YOU KNOW, AND BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST, I HAD TO CLEAN OUT HIS HOUSE AND I JUST, IT WAS SO MUCH.
AND UH, BUT YOU KNOW, I GET YES, YES, YES.
ARE YOU ADVERTISED LIKE ON SOCIAL MEDIA? I, UM, AM, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN ADVERTISE FOR ME TOO, I'VE IN EUROPE FOR 20, SINCE 2015.
DO YOU, UM, DO YOU ADVERTISE IN, I MEAN, DO YOU, SO IS IT ON THERE? WELL, I, I NEED PUT IT ON HERE, BUT YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH, BUT IF YOU CAN, UM, BUT IF YOU CAN ADVERTISE FOR ME AND LET KNOW, YOU KNOW, AS MANY UM, PLACES I CAN TELL MY STORY.
YOU KNOW THAT, UH, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD, UM, WAS THAT THE ONE THAT WRITES TAPE? YEAH, WE DO.
AND IT GOES TO A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
SO, UM, YOU THE INFORMATION ON THAT OR I HAD, UM, THE GUY WHO A PROFESSOR, UM, HE CAME TO LAST YEAR, YOU DO ONE, YOU JUST STOP ANYTIME YOU ASK A QUESTION, YOU SECONDS ABOUT, CAUSE WHEN I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO AND JUST THEIR HISTORY STORY, ONE COLONEL WAS TO SCH, THEY WERE ALL CLAP.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO THAT POINT SERIOUS, OUR APPRECIATE YEAH.
YOU KNOW, OUR WAS TALKING LIKE, UM, SEAN, YOU KNOW, HE'S A VETERAN.
UM, I MEAN EVERYBODY'S STORY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT.
UM, AND THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN THAT CAME, YOU KNOW, THERE, UM, AND HE WAS LIKE NOTHING AND NOTHING REALLY.
AND HE, THEN HE FELT COMFORTABLE AND THEN HE STARTED AND UM, SHE GOT LOCKED UP AND MY THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A, A PLACE FOR YOU GUYS TO OUR BREAKFAST 20.
AND I'VE KNOWN THESE GUYS DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY AND STILL UNTIL I STARTED, WHO ARE
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I? A FEW MINUTES LATE STARTED, UM, LIKE NOT SHOCKED THAT WAY.UM, AND I WAS JUST ASKING IF YOU WERE TO AREA YES.
I ON TAYLORS 30, UM, MY NAME, I'M GONNA OUT TO YOU.
AND UM, AGAIN, I'VE HEARD THIS, I MEAN I'VE HEARD THIS A FEW TIMES BEFORE, UM, BECAUSE THE SPOUSES ARE SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR US? SO WE'RE GOING HAVE SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA DO YET WE'RE, SO ARE YOU MEETING WITH OR TO PASS? UM, WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
WOULD I BE ABLE TO ADD SOMETHING TO WHAT SHE'S JUST MENTIONED ON THERE? SO ONE OF THE OTHER NICE THINGS WITH THE EACH ONE TEACH ONE TALKS THAT SHE DOES IS HAVE FOLKS LIKE, UH, OUR LAST MEETING, UH, EUGENE SAUNDERS, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL TURNER, UH, WAS OUR GUEST SPEAKER.
AND BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE RESOURCES LIKE THAT FOR THE VETERANS THAT ARE IN ATTENDANCE.
SO IF THEY'RE HAVING ISSUES WITH, UH, A DISABILITY COMPENSATION CLAIM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE WE'RE HELPING TO PROVIDE THOSE RESOURCES TO THE VETERANS IN THE AREA SO THAT THEY CAN GET ANSWERS ON QUESTIONS THEY MAY HAVE OR, OR HELP THAT THEY'RE NEEDING WITH THINGS.
SO NOT ONLY IN BEING ABLE TO SHARE OUR STORIES WITH OTHER VETERANS, BUT TO BE ABLE TO BE RESOURCES FOR ALL THOSE OTHER TOOLS AND THINGS THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE WITH THE, UH, THE ADJUST BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE AND THE MILITARY LIFE OR WITH GETTING THE RESOURCES THEY NEED FOR THE MEDICAL, MENTAL HEALTH SIDE OF THE THINGS AND OTHER STUFF OF THAT NATURE.
UM, SO IF THERE'S ANY OTHER RESOURCES THAT MIGHT BE SOMEBODY THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE OF A GOOD BENEFIT TO BE A GUEST SPEAKER AT ONE OF THESE, EACH ONE TEACH ONE THINGS THAT COULD HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE TO THE VETERANS.
IT'S THE OTHER STUFF THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH THESE THINGS.
I HAVE A GOOD EXPOSURE AND THAT, THAT RECENTLY CHANGED WITH THE VA TO, TO ALLOW, UH, MORE CRITERIA FOR, FOR BEING ABLE TO, HOW ABOUT SOCIAL WORKER? SO SAME, YES.
A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE KNOW, I MEAN, ABSOLUTELY.
I'LL DEFINITELY GET A OF GUYS WONDERFUL TALK PRESENTATION.
I'LL TRY TO KEEP HER DOWN TO 30 I BEFORE SHE PRESENTATION.
YEAH, YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN SEND, UM, AN EMAIL, YOU KNOW, AS TO, YOU KNOW, THAT ORGANIZATION OR GROUP BE AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, GIVE OUR PRESENTATION TO OUR ORGANIZATION.