Post 55 BIRTHDAY BASH
Celebrating our veteran and member birthdays
Come join us on the second Saturday of each month as we celebrate our Post 55 Veteran and Member birthdays.
Bring your Trivia hat with a 40$ prize going to the winning team
50/50 drawing
Bring a dish to share and chance to win the Peoples Choice Golden Sausage award
Listen to our Birthday month Veteran highlight of their service and history
Most of all come celebrate with our Veteran and Members and support our Post 55
January Birthday Peeps
January Peoples Choice Golden Sausage Winner
January Birthday Bash Crew
Trivia Winners were Mike, Tia, Melissa and Sue
50/50 Winner
vETERAN hIGHLIGHTS
Each Month we will have a Veteran Highlight. If it is your Birthday Month and you would like to spotlight your Military Service, please contact The Birthday Bash Committee Susan Krohn, Rachel Nishio, Melissa Thompson
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January Veteran Highlight Elizabeth Barker Johnson
Mrs. Johnson completed basic training at Fort Devens, Massachusetts and was then stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. She was subsequently assigned as a truck driver with Company C of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
The 855 African American women of the 6888th were deployed to the European theatre, first to England, then to France. Mail in the European theater had been backed up for several years. The women of the 6888th were given one year to fix the problem, Private First-Class Elizabeth Barker Johnson and her fellow Soldiers worked around the clock and accomplished the mission in 6 months. Johnson served as a truck driver in the unit known for their motto of “No Mail, Low Morale.”tJanuary Veteran Highlight Sgt. Henry Johnson. U.S. Army
United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I.[3] On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while suffering 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House
