Congratulations to BOBA Bulge veteran member Frederick L. Faulkner (3257 SIG SVC CO)! On May 12, 2024, the Florida Orchestra played his Ardennes March for the first time during their Pops in the Park event, their largest concert of the year, and Fred also conducted the Stars and Stripes Forever.

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Fred has composed 3 pieces for concert band that recognize and honor the participants of Pearl Harbor, The Battle of the Bulge and Viet Nam. Having played piano and the reed instruments in concert and jazz bands over the years as a hobby, he decided to write something that would honor these wars that he had lived through and participated in. Fred is a long-standing member of BOBA Chapters 23 and 32.

Bravo, Fred, and thank you for your service!

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BOBA is part of an interesting sounding 3-part program this coming Saturday at the WWII American Experience museum in Gettysburg. I’ll go on at 2 with a talk about how we geared up for WWII. From a standing start (basically, a 150,000 man army armed with World War I weapons in 1937), we created a 16 million person armed forces and out-produced the rest of the world. The story of how we did that is one of the great accomplishments of the 20th century.

Come on out, it should be a great series of talks