A Teaching Moment

March 29, 2019 1 min read

State Commander Steve Aguirre briefing some students regarding some of the names of Arizona Veterans of Vietnam War, including his brother, HM3, US Navy, Filiberto Aguirre Jr., here memorialized.

For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in all wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community,state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

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