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RMA Featured Speaker: Captain Michael Fredie on US Coast Guard’s Role in Homeland Security

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 Featured Speaker, Pat Craig – The Wild Animal Sanctuary and Its Role in Ending the Captive Wildlife Crisis

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 →

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“Check Your Unconscious Biases about Veterans” – Female Colonel USAF Commander

“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 →

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RMA Speaker, Jonathan Lemire to Discuss The Big Lie, Sept 7

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 →

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