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Finance Committee at weekly
parade planning meeting

The Queens Village Republican Club proudly marches every year in the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade behind our Club banner. We march along Northern Blvd. in memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States of America.

This community tradition of marching for our fallen heroes has continued every year since 1927 to become known as America’s largest Memorial Day Parade. The Queens Village Republican Club will march again this year on Monday, May 26. Mark your calendars! We are calling on all Club members, friends, Lincoln Dinner honorees, and local candidates to participate and march with us for our best turnout in our Club’s history. Let’s show all our neighbors that we Republicans are a strong, patriotic, and growing part of our community!

Community getting involved in
united effort to keep the parade alive

We are thrilled to report that this year, the United War Veterans Council (UWVC), the American Legion and others have stepped forward to produce the parade. Weekly planning meetings are being held and anyone who cares about the parade is invited to get involved. Meetings are posted on our Club website: www.qvgop.org. Also check the website for updates on the Line of March details for Club participants in the parade.

March with the Queens Village Republican Club on May 26!

Welcome to the Queens Village Republican Club where we cherish freedom, liberty, we celebrate our individuality, and encourage all to embrace our cultural diversity. We believe the dignity of a job can help overcome many of our socioeconomic problems.  At our April Club meeting you will be hearing from a number of speakers on the topic of Common Core. 

Officer James Li

NYPD Officer, James Li, a rookie officer survived a shooting this week allegedly by a cop-hating fugitive. Two off-duty EMTs helped save his life  and he was released from the hospital on Friday. Frederick R. Bedell Jr., a resident of Glen oaks Village, wrote the following letter published in the New York Post, which echoes all of our sentiments and praise for our heroic NYPD and EMS workers.

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“My sacrifice had to be made because of the opportunities given to me from the men and women who sacrificed their lives and died for our country. I had to do the same in their honor, to protect our nation and protect the unborn of this country so that they might live in a peaceful world.”

We are delighted to announce that Captain James Van Thach, U.S. Army (Ret.), a highly decorated United States Army veteran, will be our featured speaker at the March 6th Queens Village Republican Club Meeting. He will discuss his service and sacrifice to our nation as a soldier who was wounded twice in the line of duty in Iraq. He is a Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, and is the first Vietnamese-American to become an advisor to the New Iraqi Army. In recognition of his service, Captain Thach was given the honorary title of Brigadier General by the Iraqi government.

Captain Thach, a native of Bellerose, Queens comes from a family with a long history of dedicated military service to our nation. His father, Lt. Col. John Peterkin was recently honored as the Veteran of the Year for his valiant service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, at the glorious Lincoln Day Dinner. Captain Thach was proudly in attendance and used the opportunity to discuss his ideas and initiatives on behalf of wounded veterans with Rep. Peter King, Councilman Ulrich and other public officials. As a Veteran’s Advocate with Wounded Veteran Initiative of Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), Captain Thach will be discussing some of these initiatives with the Club as well.

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According to Graf, CCSS (Common Core), unless stopped, will do irreparable harm to students in NYS and across the nation. “ This {CCSS} is state sponsored child abuse”, he stated. “ It’s is predicated on the one fits all curriculum and testing practice, which all research has found inhibits rather than enhances the ability of students to grow socially, emotionally and cognitively. And, as if to add injury to insult, if you take a look at the {CCSS} curriculum, you will find a host of grammatical errors…. What a horrible example for the students, whose education they claim to care so much about.” 

Come to the free public event on Common Core,  March 5th hosted by Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. “Rotten to the Common Core,” all you and your family need to know about Common Core in NYS and beyond!” Click here for details. 

Assemblyman Al Graf: Leading the Fight Against the Common Core Curriculum

By Robert Golomb

When I interviewed New York State Assemblyman Al Graf (RCI, 5th AD, Suffolk County) in his Holbrook District Office last Thursday, I planned as my first question ask him about the controversial Common Core Curriculum, because, Graf, who serves in the Assembly’s Education Committee has become known as one of its harshest and most visible critics. But the two- term, fifty six year old Assemblyman- whose district spans the townships of Brookhaven and Islip- beat me to the punch.

“ Can you locate the area known as Mesopotamia on a world map or globe and identify it as part of Asia’’, he asked me with the sound of total seriousness in his voice. And then he quickly followed up with a series of additional questions: “ Do you know that this is the first question, and the next 80 are much tougher, that students in the first grade, yes the first grade, have to answer in English Language Arts as part of a so called listening and learning strand following the guidelines of the New York State Common Core Curriculum? Does this make sense to you? Do you think that these questions are age appropriate? Should a student’s promotion from one grade to the next be based on the ability to answer questions that are so age inappropriate? Should teachers face disciplinary actions if their students are unable to correctly answer such questions?’’

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