Welcome to all Veterans
This is the AMVETS Department of Massachusetts Official Website. Please feel free to browse this site. We have very useful information for any veteran. You can go from the USO to the VA through this site. You can also go to the Department of Defense Branches as well as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s websites. You can also learn how to get any Veterans ‘s benefits that are due you.
Take the time to read the bulletin it will let you know what is going on in the AMVETS. Checkout the calendar for the events that are going to be taking place. Check for a post near you and look to see if you would like to become a member of an organization that is helping all Veterans. This is the mission of the AMVETS.
Passion Plunge
AMVETS are doing their annual Passion Plunge below is the website to us to sign up and make pledges
Follow This Link to visit your team web page.
AN OPEN LETTER REGARDING ORAL HISTORIES AT THE CONVENTION
At the last SEC in Lynn, Commander Sancranti asked me if I would be available to take Oral Histories at our Annual Convention, as in prior years. I answered that I would consider it and advise the Department. In past years, extremely poor showings at Conventions have been disappointing to say the least. Department provided me facilities to take Oral Histories of our members. It has cost me a great deal of money for cameras, tapes, discs, printers and transportation to do this. I received no compensation. I have not asked for any financial support. I have simply asked for participation. The poor participation of our members is disappointing. Failures and refusals to simply discuss their valuable service are without excuse. They are at a a convention. Most have nothing else to do besides enjoy their companionship and have a drink or wait for a dinner to have fun. The obligation of a member of AMVETS should at least press upon him the need to give me a hour or so of his or her time to record what they remember of their service, whether significant or not. Therefore, I shall be pleased to attend and conduct Veterans Oral Histories at our Annual Convention if the Department will provide me with the names of JUST SIX MEMBERS from all members attending the Department Convention who will reserve a slot for their histories BEFORE the next SEC. If I do not receive these names, I will not attend and we will not have an Oral History slot; otherwise, with just SIX COMMITMENTS, I will plan to attend.
Respectfully,
Gregory H. Arabian, Major USAF HD
Department Oral History Service Officer
