Posted on Nov 29, 2015
What do you think about Company honoring vet, 100, for military, community service?
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What do you think about Company honoring vet, 100, for military, community service?
It's the giving season — time to give volunteer hours, time to give donations and time to give thanks.
WTI Transport, a Tuscaloosa-based trucking company, is among the giving.
It honored U.S. Navy veteran, Jessie Neal, on Nov. 24 for his military and community service by giving him and his family loads of food and gifts in boxes and laundry baskets, including a Thanksgiving turkey and ham.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2015/11/28/company-honors-vet-100-military-community-service/76495828/
"We couldn't ask for a better person to sponsor," Taylor said. "During this time, the conditions of the world as we know today, has brought us closer to the people who protect us, look after us and provide us our freedoms that we have. That's the reason veterans are so important to us."
Neal was sailor during World War II and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.
The 100-year-old veteran was born in Pickens County and now lives in Millport with his grandson and granddaughter-in-law. He had one daughter with his late wife of 65 years and has three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Neal was also the first black man to serve on the Millport Town Council, serving from 1980 to 1990 before serving as mayor pro tempore from 1990 to 2004.
He also served as chairman of the trustee board and on the deacon board at his church, Holly Grove Baptist.
It's the giving season — time to give volunteer hours, time to give donations and time to give thanks.
WTI Transport, a Tuscaloosa-based trucking company, is among the giving.
It honored U.S. Navy veteran, Jessie Neal, on Nov. 24 for his military and community service by giving him and his family loads of food and gifts in boxes and laundry baskets, including a Thanksgiving turkey and ham.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2015/11/28/company-honors-vet-100-military-community-service/76495828/
"We couldn't ask for a better person to sponsor," Taylor said. "During this time, the conditions of the world as we know today, has brought us closer to the people who protect us, look after us and provide us our freedoms that we have. That's the reason veterans are so important to us."
Neal was sailor during World War II and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.
The 100-year-old veteran was born in Pickens County and now lives in Millport with his grandson and granddaughter-in-law. He had one daughter with his late wife of 65 years and has three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Neal was also the first black man to serve on the Millport Town Council, serving from 1980 to 1990 before serving as mayor pro tempore from 1990 to 2004.
He also served as chairman of the trustee board and on the deacon board at his church, Holly Grove Baptist.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs, I think that that is just FABULOUS!
That is what we do, Colonel. We are professionals, leaders, in the military; and so we continue to be so in civilian life.
That is what we do, Colonel. We are professionals, leaders, in the military; and so we continue to be so in civilian life.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
CPT (Join to see) I really like sharing great news stories about veterans that have walked before us - very cool story!
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