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This book consists of the slides and transcription of Jeff Jewell's and Mark Decker's presentation to The Viet Nam Veterans of the Diablo Valley on March 3, 2022."I do want to say, first of all, it's an honor being here tonight. And I know that everyone in this room, like myself as a veteran, that you served not only in your country, but I want to thank every one of you because I know every one of you continues to serve, because veterans do, especially combat veterans. They come back they have families; they have a job. They pay taxes. They're public servants. They're teachers. They're educators. They're businessmen and they give back to the community. So I want to thank all of you for not only serving your country, but I know that each and every one of you continues to serve. And that's what I want to thank you for. So give yourself a round of applause. I'm going to do a little presentation tonight. I was recently after I retired, I was contacted by Yolo hospice. They were having a lot of difficulty with veterans in their program. And not only were these veterans in hospice and they're dying, but the social workers and the staff and the veterans... We're all struggling with how to deal with isolation with veterans because veterans have some really We're going to discuss tonight. They have some really unique issues. So we're going to talk a little bit tonight about how some of the veterans can cope with the isolation that's brought on by the post-pandemic world. And I got a little bit of help tonight. Because part of the section of this is we're going to talk a little bit about pets and how pets can impact and help reduce blood pressure, help reduce isolation, depression. And I want to introduce you to Matt Decker and Larson. Once you come up here and when I get that little section, I'm going to have Matt talk a little bit about service dogs and how pets can help and what we call medication without side effects." Jeffrey Jewell 03MAR2022

Warren Upton is a US Navy sailor who survived the sinking of the USS Utah on December 7th 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, Territory of Oahu. His autobiography includes transcripts from he and his wife, Jean.

The Korean conflict is known as "the Forgotten War," but one veteran who never forgotit was Lt. Col. John R. Stevens, U.S. Marine Corps. Lingering pain from frostbitten toes were a regular reminder of his part in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, fought in minus-40 degree weather in 1950. Stevens earned a Bronze Star in Korea, a war that technically never ended. After his retirement, he got involved in... the long slog to get a Korean War memorial built in San Francisco.He spent seven years fundraising, working alone in a windowless office on Van NessAvenue, before the $4 million monument overlooking San Francisco Bay was finally dedicatedin 2016.Every year after, Stevens marked the anniversary of the start of the war, on June 25, bygiving a speech at a ceremony there and laying a wreath on the memorial wall. "The Korean War Memorial would never have happened without John," said Don Reid, who also served in Korea and co-founded the memorial foundation with Stevens. "He was a true Marine, the total package. He stood for pride, commitment, dedication, virtue, honesty, loyalty and patriotism." Stevens was also on the ground during the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the eventual defeat of Japanese combatants at Okinawa. For his valor under fire, he received his first Bronze Star. "John was at Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Okinawa, the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing,the liberation of Seoul and the Chosin Reservoir," said Gerard Parker, executive director of the Korean War Memorial Foundation. "From the beginning of World War II through the first crucial year of the Korean war, John had a knack for turning up in these key battles." Through it all, Stevens was soft-spoken, modest and dry, using no more words than the setting required. Once asked by an interviewer what it was like to be surrounded by 100,000 enemy troops at Chosin, he responded, "Lots of targets." After 23 years in the Marines, he went on to work 35 years in business, mostly in telecommunications and information technology companies. He started as a systems engineer at IBM and went on to start four companies. One of these, Centex, went public in 1987 and became a case study at Harvard business school, as an example of "how to run a successful IPO," said his son, John R. (Steve) Stevens II of Lafayette. (from San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper Article 04JUN2021by Sam Whiting)