Issue #6, JUNE 2006

Issue Date: June 3rd, 2006

Total Active Subscribers: 33

From: Tom Ruley, President, NROTC

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our monthly newsletter.

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If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so. As a subscriber, you will be informed monthly on our charitable activity. Its easy, just look for the sign up area on the left margin of our website.

Last month I reported that our NROTC Treasurer and Board of Trustees member, John Totty, suffered a heart attack and had just joined the "Stent Club" along with myself, a Stent Club member going on ten years. Well this month I report that I recently had another angioplasty and received six new stents in my heart giving me a total of seven now. While I was exhibiting only moderate symptoms, I was actually very sick and much sicker than I thought I was. Hopefully now I have a few more good years ahead of me yet.

We were approved to solicit donations in the State of Maine this past month.

While preparing this newsletter it dawned on me that by the act of publishing the actual addresses of our service banner donees, we may be putting them at risk of being attacked in some way by anyone including domestic terrorists who may wish to do them harm. I made an executive decision to remove the street numbers from the public listings of all of our service banner donees on all of our previous "The NROTC News" newsletters. Starting with this issue we will no longer be publishing actual street addresses of our donees. As a matter of full disclosure and transparency to all who would like to track and even verify to some extent, our charitable activity, I would prefer to be publishing street addresses but I believe I am taking proper precaution here given that we are at war and not everyone even here at home supports our troops as we believe they should.

We are still a very new organization. May donations were up over last month and totaled $500.00. Banner requests were down a little and this month we actually had more than enough donation dollars received to fund the cost of getting the banners out. Being that we are short on cash reserves that's the way I like it.

We continue to touch people in a special way every time we send out or hand deliver a service banner. I recently had the honor of personally delivering a blue star service banner to a cardiology nurse who had administered the coronary stress test that I failed which led to my heart surgery. While taking the test, we talked the whole time about her son, a young marine who has just returned home from Iraq, and how she felt so helpless and anguished while he was in the sandbox.

A gentleman named Don Daniels from Long Island, New York, who recently became aware of NROTC's efforts, in May volunteered to present a gold star service banner on our behalf in his part of the country. He showed up at the funeral home in his Coast Guard Auxiliary uniform to pay respects to a deceased Marine and his surviving family members. He coordinated his efforts with Staff Sergeant David Rogers of USMC unit 4 - 2/25 to have the gold star service banner presented to the family officially by the USMC at the graveside service immediately after the presentation of the folded U.S. Burial Flag. The U.S. Marine to which I refer to is First Lieutenant Michael LiCalzi, originally from Garden City, NY, lost in Iraq in Al Anbar province 11 May 2006 when his M1A1 battle tank rolled off a bridge into a canal. First Lieutenant Michael LiCalzi was a U.S. Naval Academy Graduate. Internment is at Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale NY. Rest in eternal peace Michael.

I would like to add that USMC Staff Sergeant David Rogers was so impressed with the professionalism of Don Daniels, that he presented him with a generous gift of his unit's commemorative coin in return. Fantastic job Don! I appreciate your effort greatly!... This coin is quite a collector's piece. To check it out click here.

We are still hiring "Work At Home" telemarketers to conduct our fundraising.

Each of you reading this can do NROTC a really big favor by going to our website and looking for the banner link to R. Lee Ermey. You know, the Marine Drill Sergeant from the history channel... Please click his banner and give NROTC a vote!... It moves us up higher on his link back list and will help us get more visitors on our website!... You are allowed to vote every 24 hours and voting for us daily or at least often will REALLY BE APPRECIATED!... We are currently number 25 on the list and hope to be in the top ten shortly.

In addition to the one gold star banner which was delivered this month, it was our honor to hand deliver one, and fulfill 15 other Blue Star Service Banner requests in May '06. For the protection of our service banner donees from those who might want to do them harm, we do not provide exact addresses.

Thank you for reading.

That is all,

Tom Ruley, President, NROTC

(16) Single Star Blue Star Service Banners

We pray that your loved ones return home safe, and soon.

A cardiology nurse named Marie at Mid Atlantic Cardiovascular
XXXX Franklin Square Drive
Baltimore, MD. 21237

XXXXX 740th Ave
St. James, MN 56081

XXXX E. Talon Drive Apt A
Tucson, AZ 85708

XXXX Terrace Hills Blvd apt 506
Lawton, OK 73505

XXXX Yvonne St
Apopka, FL 32712

XXX Chaparral Drive
Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437

XXX Islander St.
Oceanside, CA 92054

XXX Brindley Street
San Clemente, CA 92672

XX Carriage House Lane
Reedsville, PA 17084

XXX Brindley St
San Clemente, CA 92672

XXXX Stockton Street
El Paso, TX 79906

XXX North Houston
Shamrock, TX 79079

XXXX 39th Ave APT 2c
Kenosha, WI 53144

XXXX Blue Bell Ct - apt b
Ft Irwin, CA 92310

XX NW Columbia Dr. A-103
Oak Harbor, WA 98277

XXXXX N. 400 E.
LaPorte, IN 46350

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