 Let's do a good thing. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. No, that's what I'm talking about. At least some of that military assignment. All right. So glad to have you today. This is our champion seminar. Hopefully it will be able to share some information with you that will be useful. Some things you did not know. Some things that you knew. And then that you know. Help us that don't know. To grasp what information is only given to you today. And I'm just delighted to be here. Want to clear up some information. Most of this information came from last year. When we did the seminar. And the questions that generated from that particular seminar. You know. I'm mindful that this is a seminar. The job show isn't like church shows. Just say hi to everybody. Well, I guess that job's near. I don't understand. I just can't come in again. Okay. Maybe some of that didn't take back. All right. We're going to get started. I'm champion of your national champion for this year thus far. And I've enjoyed serving. Still serving. That's a champion hand. I'm still going to serve. That's what I do best. Amen. So let's get started. We want to welcome you here. The purpose of this seminar is to talk about the roles. And the responsibility of the DAB champion. And what our responsibilities are. What I do is a don't sign. What we cannot do. What we're supposed to do. The rules and regulations. We're supposed to be living life. We know someone on Tweet it. But we don't want to tweet it so far out that we don't recognize them. If we happen to visit your chapter or your department level. Okay. Everybody take a deep breath. God, you're tight in there for me. Breathe. I'm not the average. I'm just a man. But in the coming weeks this information will be available to your various chapters when you go back home on your website. Because we want all of you to be informed of what it is that we're supposed to be doing. Many have stopped to ask me questions. Email me. Do I get a bunch of emails? Ask me different things. And I do my best to answer when you think about just one person. I'm a big person. But I still can't answer your one's question. The other one's meeting. And then fulfill my responsibilities on a national level. But I do do my best to get back in response. So if you send me an email, you call and give me a message. And I'm not returning either. That means I'm still working on something. Okay. Man. I'm going to go to church in a minute. All right. A little background in history. I'll help you get on how this all started. And also, man. Rabbi Michael Aaron, son. It was the first day of the national chapter. And then looking at this history that's up there for you. The role of the chapter had always been a unifying figure, but not always what one would expect. He was the first national chairman, had clerical exemption, and was not required to serve the military. But he had visited the United States and served during World War I to fight the war. He noticed that there's a lot of hostility there. And I had promised one of these three silver words, but anti-Semite-ism. And although the rise of the Jews was shrinking of the military duty, it would now go to the drag that comes in with the first-generation Americans that didn't sit well with him. So he just said, let's say that anyone who would avoid military duty was a hypocrite or a counter. But he served a distinction, and he was eventually promoted to the battalion sergeant major before an artillery shell blinded him. While he was saving a woman comrade during this particular offense, in addition to serving BAB, he also helped disabled children and founded the Jewish Grail Institute to make their legion text accessible. So as we continue our history, we've always, military champions, have always been unique. And not only are always we still unique in our own way, but the spirits of calling even in our own ministry, it may still sometimes call us to go in the battlefield. There are at least nine military champions who have been honored with the medal of honor for heroism, here it is, and dated back to the Civil War. Though champions are considered noncombatting in today's military, Milton Lorenzo Haney was named the fighting champion after picking up a musket and joining the ranks during the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Although BAB does his utmost not to send champions into the long way, there are similarities between the BAB champion and that both of us facilitate and support the need of all religions. And I want to put a pin in that. We must support all religions and all faith, and we're going to get down to that as the slides keep coming up. And I just want to put it out there that we are a non-sectarian organization. What does that mean? I can't faker one or the other. That should be a wrong line. If you're the only whatever in your particular chapter on your state level, you're the only one there. And everyone else that sits around you is of a different faith or a different religion. We're not to impose what we believe. I just believe that they're neutral. And when you hear me say that one voice and that one sound, that's what I'm saying to you, a voice to say but ear to ear and be compassionate enough not to force your beliefs and what you think your chapter or your department or national level should be is already written what it is before you accept that position to know what you walk it into. Agree? Now I need to talk back to the the man. Now, the AHA chapter has been dropped in comparison with our own counterparts. What does that mean? Military chapters may conduct services in a religion that are a-damning. We were a-damned as a mess at this finish. It was a-damned as a capital for them. But regardless of your name, we must meet the spirit you need of all diverse groups of soldiers. So if you don't know, I was told by my greats in worship from the years and years ago, and I am, misgluable about anything. If you Google it, you won't mind. So if you're not sure about the different religions of faith that you're going to serve, going to pray for, send a SIM in the car or a Get Well card, Google it and it's Google I promise you to tell you what you need to say. We got it? So what I mean, you know, Kirkfield is that, you know, no one's thought of none to look my faith or my religion is thug and here I am, but I'm not picking on me in a particular group. Get Well card. That can be offensive, because it lets me know you didn't think enough of asking someone, you know, is it okay? And we're going to see the ratings of how much of our media organization is built on substantive, Protestants, this, that and the other. We don't have the numbers among the other faith, but just know, I had it before me in a little book at home I just don't know why, but I always say why. Because I choose not, it's my choice, not to offend anyone. If you don't know, a fence can go over years and years and years and years and years. People will hold it against you for years and years and years. In fact, they'll die being offended and we don't ever want to misrepresent DAV and offend no one. We got it? Got it. I'm going to start answering myself. But we must meet the spirit of all diverse groups of soldiers and doing so to support their military unit, readiness, moral, and acts as counsel for our comrades. Military chapters must be prepared to serve in a non-denominational capacity. Get yourself ready. You know, do like those children, change your mind, get in that mind or get in that mind and say that this is what I'm going with. Not only to represent DAV, but also I found out a lot more travel quick than the truth. And if you offend someone or we got away with it, then you look back at it. Thank you, amen. So now, know that we have better faith. In 2017, the army authorized beers for religious soldiers after long suit came in. But the next year, the soldiers authorized to wear beer because they prayed to their own God. By that age, chapters have been asked to support a wide range of spiritual beliefs. Not your own faith or do your own faith, but outside of your faith as a representative of what you gave at most of the mind said in a mind change. It doesn't change you. If it changed you, then you weren't secure and solid of what you believed in. You see the time and more specifically, then I dreamt in the world Christian compromise 63% of the population. But even among those who are identified or Christians that walk among other Christians, they're a box, even the same. You don't believe in it, not to be true. Because when you walked in here, you said out, so you believe in something. Alright? So don't tell about it. I don't believe in that. When you turn your constant on that moment, you know you paid for it. You expected some water to come out of that box. So you have a belief one way of the other. So as a DME organization, we have very little to no room for this. We want to always represent ourselves as an organization that sticks together, works together. Know how to get along together. Unity is a strong word and so, you know, we can ease the calls ourselves and different ideas differently. We work better together. And we don't want any division. And our ranks and our statutes and our positions that we hold and the solutions that we can all get along if we try. But if we don't try, it's just going to fall apart. And I don't ever want to think that we're not trying. They look for you. You are written in coastal as being written because people watch you. And they watch what you do and what you say as opposed to what you think you're going to be doing and what you think you're going to be saying. So, regardless of religion affiliation, we have an obligation to make everyone feel like and welcome everyone by being champions in the membership at ours. Not the qualification. We are champions. The AB chapters are important officers who can be a unified and inspired force in chapters of board department leadership. The AB chapters do not necessarily have to have extensive training required to perform best. But our duty is to serve everyone of your faith. We are not required to have any special or chosen by the membership officers elections. Based on an election to an office, chapters do not have the authority to officiate marriages, perform religious birth rituals, grant absolution, provide spiritual counseling, or have many other duties that come to a full-time religion application. That's a whole lot that they may make itself. Just because there's one imposition in your chapter and you would name the AB chapter China. That does not give you the right to buy this dark air coat. That does not give you the right to go for whatever it is just a something that you have on Sunday and say, you know, my chapter may be the chapter. I got the lawyers at a bad time some of the time. That's wrong. Don't do that. You're a big chapter for the AB chapter level, national level, unless you have outside credentials from your particular faith wars, your petition particular organization that has license certified you to do that but not just seminaries here and plus under the AB chapter. That don't mean anything. Do it under your own credentials. All right. We don't get straight for the AB. Chapters cannot be expected to understand the tendency of all this way you go talk to Ms. Goode. If you don't know what the Goode is how you would respect them just say do what's not offensive and take the time on these smart phones on your computer and find out the information that you need to know. Being distressed is harmful for the more of that person's belief and it all keeps going back to we don't want to be disrespectful. We don't want to be alone. We don't want to have another one and these are spiritual wounds because sometimes I found that very hard to heal. A physical wound we can patch it up sew it up, put a bandaid on it and a scarring there but if it's a spiritual wound sometimes we can find it hard to put that wound to heal. What about our own characteristics? As an AB position the character should be had more standards. I call it integrity. That your integrity my grandfather used to say let your year end don't promise someone something that you already know you only have the intention but don't know. And that's how he said I'm sad and what I truly believe if it's out of your range out of your mind let the person up let the organization up somebody else says something you might not know or by the desire then don't let it be but what she said something they don't have I'm going to go get a plan with somebody else set your own tone and your own standard as fate will come with the name that's associated with you I'm going to come from the AB so I'm going to stay with the Royal Bank 99 for 99 percent of the time it's not needed but in the case of chapter members we're talking about who they select as a chapter and I know they on a personal basis know I'm going in the chapter position so people will just point it out but even with that be mindful and select who you have where that man first you're going to try to put it into a crystal criminal but later not on this Google but if you borrow people on Facebook people that you know they don't know we put too much money but you put too much information out there in fact I have a police officer and a friend of mine and he tells me all the time he said we don't have to do background checks anymore we just Google the name and find out what we need to find out first people will put the information out there so be mindful of how you're doing more characters to continue you let someone as a chapter member who has an extensive criminal record can reflect extremely important on the APA and discourages the court but how is that I did not know John Wallagham been killed half of the state and now he's just break it up and he's still laying about killing the other state why would I do that just to constantly pay good money make greater donations in the organization he'll be alright we'll just make him a chapter member anyway y'all look real strange but I know some incidents and I did to that extreme but it wasn't a chapter but someone was put in the office because of such things and oh oh I didn't know John Wallagham and now we got blood on our name because we had a big time to do what was needed to be done chapters don't need it but you should not have so much blood on your sheet that we can't read what your name is out of distraction we should never regardless of our personal or religious views could be a person of a different faith or belief that in particular somebody's door somebody's son somebody's loved one and you think about when you frown or if we frown on this particular group someone that is frowning on yours and you're supposed to have it going on you have to have a heart and compassion for all the people I don't care how you're going to be it's not just for the chapter but you just being a person of yourself you know it's not about color well not always but a lot of times I use this phrase even in the discipline that I'm in I'm going to put the brain polka dot all the desire to color what we call this the norm and what I'm saying is just to create your color if you polka dot your green just call it whatever your heart is what determines who you really are and we love people by heart I've not always been like this don't get it twisted I've had some stuff in me but I've learned to love old people old people it doesn't matter if I can understand what you're saying and speak in English to me then you're the person that we can bring in and embrace be mindful I've learned this through the years that a very person you reject and look down on that's a very person who won't have to hand your glass to the bottom right now and so be careful there's no only B&B track and support B&B mission they can also palm B&B reputation of life as real assassination of someone you can start speaking the truth you may hear it or you may not hear it but if juice is light it'll be a back and out battle before I can get back out of that these sale phones have messed people up but we used to have to buy them a diamond until how old I am to make a call you don't have to do that no more you just send a text by that person standing in front of you and can mess someone up that's not who we are yes well in the first place the role of a champion is special and I would like to thank that we are you may not need a prayer and I often share with people that's not the only thing the champions do is open and close and pray we can get to him we can pick up a mob we can do fundraisers we can do membership so on that this is a champion hat I can pick up someone make sure the veterans get to that job so don't put chapters in the box that's how we do open and close and pray and you know just there to hear somebody who jump all the issues and problems on us and it's not enough to reverse it we don't have a multitask you just give us a sign and watch us do it amen amen alright a champion represents a compassion of an anti-champer or state of DAB we provide comfort, facilitation for all the young and survivors of all men of all men just because you have a person that's a member of an American agent it doesn't mean you can't be a supporter they are veterans purple heart veterans wounded warriors of veterans they may not have that job they may be out of state somewhere so DAB chat and stick your chest way out and go see if I put you a fellow comrade or their veterans see we can't afford that, that's the former freighter but they're not a member of DAB I'm not going over there how many of the next thing I'll say if I call them on DAB they're supposed to be this great organization that would be even helping and assisting and H.I. control make it cost we were not a members of their organization they couldn't come and help us so we don't have them in another hand to a fellow veteran of the veterans so we got some other resources out there the other resources are the official ritual of DAB the National Constitution and Biodiversity and the Chantum Officer Guide and all three of these are available through our DAB website by searching if this little woman beyond this ring because we hear too often especially in my generation it just don't happen the jobs that I did on several jobs I can't bear for me with the computers there's some who don't know how to access from the computers they have to get their children and grandchildren there's some things that I still have to call my wife that your grandfather I said come show Mella how to get here she's like really now just give me your play so if you're one of those who don't know how to access the website you don't know how to get to if you find some of these children that keeps these things and you're not going to be able to find them because they don't know if you have faith so don't let shame and embarrassment cause you will not know how to access these three important tools that we need to carry on what needs to be carried on yeah, thank you the ritual and all of these these next lines I want to explain what the ritual does it identifies where our chapter might be positioned for meetings you'll see someone say you'll see the different chapter it just lets you know what's your position when you're invited to come to the various meetings seminars or whatever we may be needed for because oftentimes you come in and say where am I supposed to be there's a a table that shows how it's organized and how it's set up you know the commendices here first vice-community vice-unit we may be asked to preside over a brief ceremony to honor the POWs and the MIAs chapters can it should be the first person to be contacted when a veteran of families are in stress the ritual comes for a report on the sickness in your local chapters for insure that if you know what the sickness comrades are longing let the chapters know that this is the sidebar and it's not in this recitation today I've experienced it two or three times in my life and this go to Google I'll go to Instagram and YouTube it was expectancy that the chapter needs to know how to fold that flag how many know how to fold a flag that ceremony how many know how to fold a flag that I can't well maybe I'm a little slow in this situation because we do have representative there as some of the homegoers as some of the veterans who transition and what happened and it was just real strange thank god for YouTube they got the one that they were expecting the chapter to participate and fold another flag they had just enough time to head into the building YouTube it and learn how to fold that flag so if you don't know just a bit too much do it tonight and then if you're the person there and nobody else knows then you give them a quick lesson on how to fold that flag that in the recitation but it's good tonight I love all of them the ritual also holds a comprehensive guidance on how to conduct a memorial service but brief yourself on it so you'll know it's a little straightforward when you come to Christendom the part that we know that is one of Christians where the scripture is referred to the back of shadow dead over this Christian mind you can come and mistake you don't have to but it does some of the way that it doesn't bind the commoners to make you feel that Christian way of understanding from the truth your faith is your faith your religion is your religion and by no means are we here to change your mind about what your faith is mind and challenges whoever you are, whatever your faith is whatever your walk is whatever your religion is know who you are and hold fast to it got it? now if you ain't sure like all recommendations and should be omitted or replaced if it costs this comfort based on the belief of the fallen the same philosophy can be applied to other occasions ideas and faith in other words this got to be universal we got to have a universal mind non-criticism, judgmental mind and the good when you take that oath you say this don't say it if you don't mean it you just want the title you just want the title you just want to have on your head under that title under that hat you're going to be of this right here I praise you and in such a manner that all times and places if you keep saying it and allow it to get down into your spirit then you'll be affected about what it is we're really supposed to be doing no shame and no embarrassed on this organization myself but what about me I have to be the first part taken of what I'm saying so in an eyes and hole of the office that the chapters and all offices make when we accept this responsibility constitution and bylaws who we the national constitution and bylaws accepts that chapters are elected by DAB membership it does not elaborate much on the responsibility but it's the law of DAB and it does contain a very important status that applies to the chapters as well as all who represent DAB so we're not hanging on here by ourselves it applies to everyone from the commander all the way down from the sweeper all the way up all the rules and regulations in this organization it applies to all religious applies to the chapter everybody in this agency it's they said I'm partial, I don't show my favoritism I'm like one who with the other put a ball in one and in a melted pot I think that makes us great to strengthen whatever walks you in with a religion it just makes us unique in our own special way because you may be praying to one God I may be praying to the other but the good thing about me all of God's out there is that what we all need because you're so stubborn we're in trouble and this earth is golden you may not be praying to my God you're praying to your God and when they come together they know we've all lost the fears at the same time but now if you don't have what Brad wants to do next to you I need to be God we need to get out of trouble I'm sorry today I said it's the chapter's responsibility to put prayer in the chapter to me the chapter is the spiritual leader you appointed him, you named him you called him and me in so you at least don't need to know how to say prayer the chapter is the spiritual leader and may he call upon to represent the chapter and the funeral make sure you know what we're praying on that name slip up to the family member call one of the members who know that that person has been in that chapter for the last 40 years I had the time to discipline a brother say who he believed in and if he's not of your faith then google it so you can get a pretty small prayer but don't take all day to pray though that's right don't make it into a certain moment look that prayer up be decent and in order and say what it is it doesn't cost a gap the chapter from doing more to support the aid of members veterans and families in fact to some degree within the boundaries of non-denominational service chapters may initiate or be embodied other programs resources will allow them to be alright Mr. Dan pronounce this word for him prostitutes thank you now we know what that means yeah one thing I hope is a broad understanding that the role of the chapter can play can have a place in our organization that with the definition of it and do someone to try to convert someone to your faith or request someone to join another party institution of commerce don't do that that's enough that's enough now if you ask a question let's share what you believe share what your faith is but don't stop politicalizing rather than campaign that I don't know what you don't know that I need you to come on over here that ain't about nothing that's not your place it is unacceptable in the AP but if you tend to serve as a chapter even as they let you be in another position it is very critical to understand that it's not the responsibility to act don't let it be put on you your job our job is to meet the better that's where they are wherever they are just me you may not understand me but at least we are compassionate enough to give a compassionate ear if you don't understand share it but don't be lying I really understand no I don't understand but I hear you listening and if it's in the chair my prayer may be different but if you don't mind don't just start going in my case is right but you don't say it this way have enough compassion in a listening ear to be able to assist and have a spirit of comfort knowing that it could have been you but say she was on the other feet have some compassion there some chapters already have a defined or active in it number of faith based initiative when you elect a chapter for the AB it is very important that you do not allow your personal belief to interfere with the AB mission if you don't know what the mission is read it read it every week but this came up last year well the Bible should be at the chapter 9 so the Bible be open and closed well I call up the national it's supposed to keep coming up because it seems like it's becoming a problem and I got to worry about it I got an email back and one of the things that's in them that my response was the national organization does not incorporate a sectarian religion text and meeting or event when I say that it has to be there when I say that it has to be open it has to be closed but one of the last conclusions of that statement that I received from the English temp this is just common sense if you got a movement and they don't understand why the Bible is there it becomes offensive until you can pull it it explains why the Bible is there why it's open, why it's closed it comes as a fantasy we don't want to be again one and run off thinking that we brought it to the organization on a pre-test of something else so it's really based on what you're really doing in the longer chapter level because some don't have Bible so that Bible is a Torah and all these others are different from what they really need in the chapter and if it's rid of a problem just remove it what you have should already be in your home Amen and if it's not in that maybe you need something to read alright, someday there will be a place for a Bible to a narrative aberration this is not a mandate by an NBA policy resolution and it's potentially a divisive even within the Christian invasion there are different versions of the Bible having one versus another and setting up a final bias for a specific pre there is no regulation however, it is not really the order based on your oath of office in general it's something you should not do intentionally or unintentionally and when you get wind of it address it how many of you know we continue to allow this stuff to build up it's like a fire that needs to be put out and if we don't address it then before you know it that's when the division come in that's when the breaks of the chapter come in that's when they let the reducer think I can and they say this it rules a regulation that no one is adhering to their rules a regulation we have to do what is been put before it's our acts to do not just to make the organization look good because we do that well or what about your own personal self don't you think this is good by saying one thing and totally living another thing do not say that this can or cannot happen just speak to the consequences you have this is a perfect guideline the only way we can miss it we don't read it, we don't adhere to it we try to change it all down sales, no one voted on it but you no one said it but you we have guidelines that we aren't to live by and do the best that we can and if it's not working then write it write it down and pray it's a national get a hold of it and let someone know this is not working for us is anything that can help us that we can continue to be great and better for this organization we don't want to spew our national we want to be who we say we are we can outlive it help one another assist one another all veterans, deaf families, deaf children let's do what we say we have been sent out there to do I want to thank you for coming today and to the breakers for giving me the support not on the national level but on the state level on your chapters level whatever you need and my e-mail address is I have my phone number I reply in two minutes I can just know if you've not heard from me it's not that I've been pulling you I'm also the state chapter before the state of Alabama and this and that's not my excuse I do know how to multitask and I do it way up I don't know but I just gave you an offer at the same time but I'm getting there so I thank you again for coming and if you have any questions there's a mic right there this where you also make a day in prayer it's not just sitting you're going to be asked y'all first because I'm the first one to say I don't know about it I don't try to know it all then I know I don't know but Ms. Google and YouTube have become my best subscribers if you have a question if you hang in there in the morning I'll send it can you go back to the microphone Jeremy? no I keep my mic but it's a mistake well actually it's not that I'm on a fast day thank you I'm grateful to see a national person in this meeting that's a wonderful thing and that means a lot to me I also know that chapters are not voting members but many of the meetings they're asking to participate in to bless that meeting before and after they what I want to bring more of a computer age in all of the processes that Mr. Wills is working on what the chaplains who the chaplain is either in certain districts departments or nationally some kind of registry so I just want to make sure I understand the question are you saying that you basically want a phone book so the chaplains can talk to each other yeah absolutely I'm going to talk to Doug about that I have a lot of great feedback I'm here because I'm supporting the chaplain she brought this issue to Mark Burgess his attention last year and I followed through as late as possible because I just wanted to she made so many good jokes but she's upset with me about anything but we're going to have a guide that's going to come out what the chaplain referred to we're possibly going to do a weathering people together this if you want to this is the time to get to know one another and if someone's not here you know someone who knows them or you can get in touch with people around you in the meantime I will run that up with Doug while I speak about it and I will give you feedback from your service I certainly agree with you because I know that the chaplain has been working to try to get a list nationally just like global chaplains but I thought it would be safe and it's very difficult and so I support your work and do the work and put it in I appreciate that it would help us to be able to get this kind of training and education out to know who he is and what we're trying to send it to and thank you thank you do assistants have to take that open to I believe if you're every D&P chaplain I mean Ed Harman is the constitution by law's leader but every meeting that I've been in folks who are appointed by elected officers also take the open to office but if you're not appointed you're just an assistant chaplain would they have to take it? I think it's a type of assistant if they're held in a chapter say our chapter is not there so we have some time to review I think that's something that would need to be covered your procedure through your chaplain constitution by law I believe but like I said Ed Harman says with the Marines he crayons and he doesn't think oh that's Mark so he might talk alright thank you let me say this I received this this is a pumpkin night we went to South Carolina and she called me and wanted to know the presentation that I did when I was there it was okay for her to build off something that she wanted to do so she actually brought me which I'm not ready to yet but this is what the mid working is about that as we visit we're able to get a hold of one of them in that chaplain coca-cola department convention I was so impressed with her presentation of what she gave to the chaplain before we left the meeting I told her we were going to use that I'm working that so people think I came up with this idea but I don't know if you wrote it see this is what it's all about you must know all and draw from one another if we have as Jim said the tools to work with or some information that's out there that could be useful within all the chapters for this department and we're going to make sure it looks like I got it going on they don't know what I got I have to go to every department chaplain for the state of Georgia is there a guy or a group of singers who put on a Moritz service the one you did yesterday barely got in I really enjoyed it if there was a guy that we didn't use to follow we would appreciate working his way down to those in the separate departments and to the chaplain official he said I just want to add to that that the role of the chaplain if the chaplain formed in the great point that you said he's going to give you a framework he's going to tell you what we definitely don't want you to do as a chaplain but within that framework you have the creativity to do things but you would be surprised if you dig into the ritual there are even suggested prayers and something like that you can build on if you want to for you in Ephesians and there's extensive memorial service guides in the ritual more than I think any of the current community leaders have fully like I think when we dug into this at Chaplain Barnards Ephes we were kind of surprised there's a lot more guidance in there probably than you think and if there's more guidance needed the national chaplain is someone you can reach out to and say well let's talk about this maybe we do a webinar and we ask and invite chaplains to that if that's going to be a big trouble it's all going to stop there but we can do more if we need it just let us know and let me just answer for the chance to answer that question and reason is there are guidelines of the do's and don'ts that's how to do a thing in my mind why I could give it the do's and don'ts what to say, what not to say but you can be guided I'm just totally different in this area I'm trying to be mindful of what I'm saying what I need to say so that I don't offend everyone in the room now my personality is that I'm talking about and sharing my compassion for people I can get over excited because I'm trying to drive the point over that you are special I do hear I am passing I try to leave and be the champion on the champion level I'm mindful of I'm here for a warrior's service to encourage and to empower to let you know although our comrades are not here we're not forgotten and I sense it going into another direction and I try to pull myself back so once again I'm speaking from my Christian faith and what I believe in now it's going to come out of there but I'm trying to sit on the best I can but I do it here to the God and I understand the rituals as often as close I can get Michael but you got to really understand what's in there and that way you're going to get so far off and so that's just my faith that's what I believe but I took the same hope and I have you here today I believe in this nature's sword I'm from chapter 18 in North Carolina my question is because I had I don't know if I'm stepping out of bounds but I had I did address with my chapter and I had created a our chapter of shows to be on the Facebook page to help you know because sometimes I get a lot of I get a lot of voices like that I've been trying to add members to our Facebook page and I was wanting to hope is that something you know that's what makes me a vital order is that something I can do with a chapter chapter chapter chapter so now I'm going to get you called out because I was texting Doug off trying to sort out the the room work can I take care of that real quick according to Doug there's no such report currently we see a definite value especially for state-owned chapels I think someone else in this room might think that the national chapels might have the same exact thing and we might need to do outreach if we do seminars or something like that so Doug's saying now that we have the officer election report online this is something we can work towards and stop the feedback any other questions I want you to forgive me for being on our phone me to create a Facebook chapter account which I did get permission from our chapter but if you have permission from your chapter and you're representing your chapter that's fine I was just in a social media seminar so we counted this for guidance on social networking that comes over into the communications department Rob, this is the communications director Michael Stegner is a social media manager Michael Stegner you can always reach out to and ask for help and guidance and feedback he said Michael Stegner it's actually Stegner I think that's what I'm announcing ST, E, G, N ER and just another thought on that the big thing with these chapter sites is we talk about chapter basically in a nutshell the first rule is do no more right so if you start a department or if you start a state level or a chapter level page there has to be just like in your oath of office you will turn back to the order of the property that you've been given and trusted to do your job the same thing has to happen with social networking sites because if you don't do that and your chapter 23 your chapter 23 in San Diego, California and that person leaves whatever it's murder to go through Facebook to try and get the password released and what happens when we have bad information out there now what you're communicating to someone is that this is a defunct chapter this chapter had closed online since 2007 something's wrong with the 80 they're dead in the 80 so if you're doing that, that's just another piece of advice and another thing that if you're in a meeting this is really critical the reason why I'm really here is I help on the communication side and reputation management is on primary responsibility why and that's why I'm not qualified for the church but here we are and that's my advice on that so just feel free to start the chapter website if you have the authority but share the password and make someone else's bad memory thank you you look like a hard person that's why we're glad there's some more words than a hard person hard person well I'm James Bailey from chapter 9 and 117 well I'm Ohio and I don't have a question and sure enough everything you said is going on you don't change everybody's important you don't care what color have respect for everybody's religion I mean my name is how hard it is to have a person your character to represent that that's my question I think application does not endorse candidates for office I could say on Monday but this is an initiative by chapter 9 and it's on the producer please give her a round of applause good afternoon Brian Griebrux chapter 2 as a commander of the DAS as a department commander and as a chapter commander The family approach has had an approach in the absence of a chapter to represent the DAAs and the deceased members of the party of the chapter or the department. This day has a standard type of ritual. Anybody can use it. It's not offensive. There it is. There's a lot of moving things, especially on memorial services. I was surprised that the same thing the chaplain said about knowing who you're talking to in terms of religion. But it's pretty well laid out. It's going to surprise you. If someone wants to right now, there is something I can't pronounce. I think they spell it G-O-O-G-L-E. You'll actually see. There's several pages in there on memorial services. If you're doing one for your chaplain, by the way, the National Organization doesn't have a playbook for how we handle the national level ceremony. However, you can watch this year for the first time ever because of high demand. The chaplain memorial service is going to be posted online for the first time. Thank you.