Commanders Message January - February, 2012 Comrades, welcome to 2012. We are facing a year of challenges. Some are local in nature, some are national in scope, and some of the challenges we face are global. For a moment, concentrate on just Phelan and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9415. First and foremost we are facing a time when we have to consider that it is possible that one of our own has become rogue, someone who does not have the best interest of our fraternal organization at heart. We have twice been complained about to the county Health Department much to the detriment of out morale and advancement. In both cases the complaints were found to be invalid, but the harm is done. We now must dedicate ourselves to the chores at hand. That chore is to put together the resources to build our kitchen and not dwell on the negatives. We must not allow ourselves to speculate as to who may be our nemesis, but rather move forward toward the realization of our goals. to honor the dead by helping the living