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Notes from the President
Several past issues of
this newsletter have
focused on the need for
our membership to back
and support TRICARE
For Life funding in the
2002 budget. The
House and Senate
Budget committee
conferees deserve a
round of applause for
adopting Senator John
Warner's (R-VA) and
Senator Pete Domen-
ici's (R-N.M.) proposed
$3.1 billion "plus up" for FY 2002 health care needs.
It is a testament to our ranks for joining together
and collectively making our voices heard by contact-
ing our elected officials using c-mail, mail ins, letters
and of course the good old phone. I want to thank all
those in the Houston Area Retired Officers Associa-
tion for your efforts and concern. For the first time
in many years the defense health program shouldn't
have to start the fiscal year in the red.
We had another great meeting in July. Over 60 of
our members were able to attend and participate in a
great Saturday event. I look forward to seeing you all
at the meeting on 25th of August.
CDR J. R. Reddish, USN, Ret.
President, HAROA, 2001
An Excellent Program
We've had many good meetings with interesting
programs, but the July meeting at the Yacht Club was
one of our best. The speaker, Ms. Melanie Wiggins,
who is an author and an artist commanded everyone's
attention, especially our navy people and anyone who
ever had anything to do with submarines, She talked
about how the Germans invaded our coast lines
during World War II, a situation of which many
people were unaware. She interviewed numerous
submarine veterans in the German navy in Berlin to
get information for some of her books: They Made
Their own Law, stories of the Bolivar Peninsula -
Rice University Press; and Torpedoes in the Gulf',
Galveston and the U-Boats - Texas A&M Press -
1995. She also wrote U-Boat Adventures - first hand
accounts from World War II; Naval Institute Press.
In the fall of 2002, U-Boat Adventures will be
published in Spanish and Portuguese.
This amazing woman also started her own business,
teaching ceramics.
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