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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 30, 2021 Page 13 Deputy Hiraishi: Yes, and Thanksgiving is the week before, the Thursday before. Our last Wednesday would be the 30tn Chair Doolittle: We'd be good for at least a year. Iyo: We can always revisit that next year. Ok, that's it for the meeting dates for 2022. ANNODUNCEMENTS Lewis: I just want to thank everyone for their participation in the parade video. I don't know if you've had a chance to look at it but everyone who's in the meeting, you're on camera. Thanks for Brittany for going and making sure that I had the video. We were the first one, Michael kicked off the whole thing, the parade video. Chair Doolittle: That's part of our announcement here. Thank you very much, Deb for making that happen. I just don't know anyone in this community that does more for veterans than you do. Lewis: Well, thank you! Chair Doolittle: I also want to thank everyone that attended our Veterans Day ceremony, where we were able to accept on behalf of our housing project $145,000 donation from the national association of real estate investment trusts. That kind of opened the door for us for future donations from a 3 1/z trillion -dollar network. We're talking about one of the richest networks in the United States. They started a new community initiative, and they have an office in Honolulu. Specifically designated to looking for worthy places to donate money that helps the communities and societies better themselves. I'm really welcoming to that funding source for a lot of reasons and especially in housing, housing is critical. Everybody that does these things for the betterment of our community, I'm just overwhelmed with. Nobody does more for veterans in this community than you Deb, so I salute you. Do we have any other comments? Hanato: I do. Thank you, Deb. Lately, I'm on honor guard detail, west side and I got to almost every one because I take care of the weapons and everything else. A lot of times we have to run the service as far as honor guard part. Lately, the military hasn't been coming over and if they have been coming over, they send only two or there people. More so lately they haven't been coming over so National Guard has been jumping in from Hilo, in their place. But, for them to jump into another branch of service they have to get the ok from that branch of service they've been getting hard time. Last week we had a Navy burial at the cemetery, Navy was notified, and National Guard was notified, and National Guard was waiting for the Navy to give them the ok but that never happened. That already happened in Kona about three times already. We, the honor guard detail in Kona with consists of the Honor Guard in Kona and DAV have done all this from way back in 199 something when we first started until today. We really appreciate ethe National Guard for coming in and really would appreciate all the other branches of