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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 24, 2021 Page 7 VC Brinkley: Eventually it will be and then I can take down the Google Maps one. But it's going to be quite a while before we can get it on to the Parks & Rec website because the guy that's in charge of IT said it's going to be a while before they'll be ready to do that DCC Yoshimoto: I would say because Veterans Advisory Committee advises the mayor, we would have to get permission from the mayor in terms of acting as a committee first before we do that. But yeah, I think it's very doable. VC Brinkley: Ok, thank you. Chair Doolittle: Good idea. Anyone else have any comments about that? Lewis: Great work, Marcie. Thank you. It's been along (inaudible). Adopt -a -mile or Adopt -a -highway, we hope can use that in order to gain, we're trying to get more visibility because we need to start having groups sponsoring these, some do it already, but some are orphans, and they don't really get much TLC. Then the other piece is currently, the Gold Star monument is set to be dedicated on Gold Star Family Day which is September 26th and that will be at West Hawaii and Joann Hill has asked me to speak at that. Now that's whether we can gather or not, just so you know that will be the question. The Veteran's Day parade, I'm sad to report, given what's happening there's just no way I'm going to go into planning for a physical event. We will do a virtual event and I would love to have a piece on the Veterans Advisory Committee, a piece on the monuments to educate people which is what we do during the parade on what is happening in relation to veterans. I'm really looking forward to putting, it's going to have to be a month before this time, not the day of. And in a format, I can do something with and maybe I'll get someone like Johnny to help me put it together. He got Terry Bradshaw to do a minute in the last one which was awesome. But also, the technology and I used an early version of Camtasia and Isaac would laugh at me, how many hours I spent trying to put this video together with 20 different formats and some kind of semblance. I figured out what the key was, have children in it and Terry Bradshaw and it doesn't matter about the rest. So, if you have kids who want to be patriotic, Johnny had his son, and he had a flag and said something and kids from his school. We really want to educate the public about our veterans and ways that they can help or be engaged and work with other groups. The final event is that, knowing that in lieu of the parade, Rotary approached me in order to ask maybe we want to consider a veteran's day. David DeLuz Jr. I don't know what his answers are from the rest of Rotary, but we came up with maybe we can have a card that promotes veterans, like discounts but maybe it's a special card with discounts to thank veterans and have some deals on there. Ideas are endless but Rotary was going to do it and probably could happen at a low cost. Just planting that seed in your head because you're do-ers, just like the rest of us. We want to make November special. We are not going to sit back. I'm he new Commander of the State. I don't know if I was last meeting. But, I'm now the Commander of the State for the VFW and my boss Fritz (sp) (inaudible), is now the Commander in Chief and he says, "the time is now, we are not going to sit and do nothing, the time is now, no matter how bad things get, just