Unique among the armed forces in not being part of the Defense Department, the Coast Guard is a military branch within the Department of Homeland Security and part of the departments of treasury and transportation. Whereas the U.S. Navy operates throughout the globe, the Coast Guard mainly conducts its many missions within the U.S. and its waterways. Continue Reading →
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RMA to Feature Speaker Stephen Roach, Author of “Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives”
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In the short span of five years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, RMA, Stephen Roach
RMA Featured Speaker, Pat Craig – The Wild Animal Sanctuary and Its Role in Ending the Captive Wildlife Crisis
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Pat’s vision has led, 41 years later, to the oldest, largest nonprofit sanctuary in the Western Hemisphere dedicated exclusively to the rescue of captive exotic and endangered large carnivores that have been abused, abandoned, exploited, or illegally kept. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, Pat Craig, RMA, Wild Animal Sanctuary, willife
“Check Your Unconscious Biases about Veterans” – Female Colonel USAF Commander
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“As a woman who has served 27 years in the Air Force, I am often mistaken for the civilian spouse of my military husband. Unconscious biases – we assume that men are service members.” – USAF Commander, Col Amanda Evans Continue Reading →
Filed under: Holiday, Alan Clair, American Legion Post 29, bagpipe, Brunswick School, Colonel Amanda Evans, community walk, DAR
RMA Featured Speaker for Nov 2, Thomas Graham: “Putin’s Gambit: Why He Chose the War and How It Will End”
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Come hear Thomas Graham a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations discuss issues relevant to the War in Ukraine. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, First Presbyterian Church, RMA, Thomas Graham
RMA Featured Speaker for Oct 16, Dr. Katie Takayasu: The Case for Putting Plants First in Your Diet
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Dr. Katie Takayasu is an Integrative Medicine Physician and author of Plants First:A Physician’s Guide to Wellness Through a Plant-Forward Diet. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Health, Dr. Katie Takayasu, plant based diet, Retired Men's Association, RMA
Oct 12 Featured RMA Speaker: Dwight Chapin, Served as Personal Aide to Nixon
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From Richard Nixon’s, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore,” in his 1962 California gubernatorial campaign through his world-changing trips to China and Russia and epic downfall, Dwight Chapin was at his side. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, Dwight Chapin, Richard Nixon, RMA
RMA Speaker, Jonathan Lemire to Discuss The Big Lie, Sept 7
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Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich invites the public to its program on September 7, 2022, at 11:00 am at First Presbyterian Church, 37 Lafayette Place, Greenwich. The program will also be shown on Webinar: https://bit.ly/30IBj21
Author, journalist, and TV host, Jonathan Lemire will discuss his just published book, The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020. In this thorough and well documented account Lemire not only traces the origins of the “Big Lie”—Trump’s insistence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged-–but explore show the constellation of Trump lies has shaped our current politics.He will speak on the pervasiveness of these fabrications and falsehoods and why such a sizable percentage of the American public is willing to believe them. He will also discuss the impact of such lying on the American psyche, how it undermines our faith in the electoral process, our confidence in our institutions, and democracy itself. In brief the big lie, like a toxic weed, has taken root, blurred fact from fiction, sown doubt and confusion, and led to violence and threats of more violence to come. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Arts, RMA, The Big Lie: Election Chaos Political Opportunism and the State of American Politics After 2020.
Meskers to Address Retired Men’s Association on Post-Covid Economy
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State Rep Meskers will discuss the state of Connecticut’s economy as it begins to emerge from the stresses of the pandemic. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Government, Retired Men's Association, RMA, Steve Meskers
RMA Speaker on Jan 12 to Present Cryptocurrency 101
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David Yermack is a frequent speaker on digital currency and blockchains to academic, industry, and government audiences. He will present the key concepts, terminology now widely in use, and operations (cryptocurrency 101). Continue Reading →