I
will probably not be alive to hear the news of my uncle George
Lavenson’ whose remains have been found and identified. Technology will
someday soon I hope catch up to going to remote places like the 1200
feet of ocean off Greenland where my uncle and the 26 other wounded lay
on the ocean floor. I imagine many families like mine are hoping
technology will someday recover them.
I was recommended to you by Arthur Roy who said I should tell what I am doing and ask for you help.
While waiting for technology to advance enough...
I
have dedicated 10 acres to developing a Veterans Family Camp and now
the addition of the American POW/MIA Memorial. It is mostly physically
complete for phase I but my director needed a heart transplant want with
his ill health went the momentum and organization for this venture.
I
need help gathering a few good men to help breath life back into it and
plan ceremonies for families of MIA’s to "A man is not dead if you
still speak his name” where they would be invited to com around the camp
fire and tell his story.
And secondly to name a person to whom the "passing of the family baton” would be memorialized.
I need volunteer director to help plan, fund raise and organize the memorial services.
Then
I need to spread the word to invite MIA families, like mine, to a
ceremony for them to tell "his story" and witness others who tell their
MIA story, who wish to keep their MIA loved-one alive, by "speaking his
name.
And naming a successor to who the DPAA can contact when they surely will someday find them or evidence of the.
Any help and advice is more than wanted.
Sincerely
Joel Lavenson US Army 66 - 70
Nephew to MIA 1lt George Lavenson, US Army 39 - 44
Easy Co. 2nd BN, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, known as the (Band of Brothers
109/ 120 Sahagian Road
Belgrade, Maine 04917
207 689 8004
207 689 8004