Tuesday Jan 24th Meeting Cancelled due to weather

Tonights meeting is being cancelled due to inclement weather. Frank McCarthy who was going to be our guest speaker will be rescheduled to a later date.

Guest Speaker for Next Membership Meeting.

Our next membership meeting is scheduled for January 24th at 7pm

Our guest speaker will be our Past Commander Frank McCarthy Major, USMC ret

During 1975---76 Frank spent a year with the Joint Casualty Resolution Center, Satahip, Thailand. His duties consisted in determining which locations, (incidents) were the most promising, relative to positive results, to be considered for further investigation or searches. During that time Frank read every report available related to each MIA, including command chronologies, after action reports, and the debriefings of those individuals released from captivity by the North Vietnamese. You will not believe some of what he has to say.

This meeting is open to the public, so come meet us, see what we are about and what we are doing for the community.

 

All veterans may be eligible for property tax credit

All veterans may be eligible for property tax credit
CONCORD — All veterans may soon become eligible to receive property tax credits for their military service regardless of when or where they served, under new legislation recently signed into law by the governor. a Seacoast state representative said. Under current law, RSA 72:28, the Standard Veterans Tax Credit is awarded to anyone who served a minimum of 90 days on active duty, was honorably discharged, and served during certain specifi ed “wartime” periods.The newly enacted law (RSA 72:28b) is exactly the same as the old one, but without the time periods.“Individuals can volunteer to enter the military, but they have little or no say as to where or when they will actually serve,” said outgoing state representative Fred Rice of Hampton, the prime sponsor of the bill that created the new law. “All veterans should all be recognized for their service, and not be deprived of a benefit because of something they had no control over,” Rice said.Each municipality in the state must formally adopt the All Veterans Tax Credit by a vote of town meeting or equivalent in order for it to take affect in that town.Rice said hopes that it will be done this year.At present, every municipality in the state awards the Standard Veterans Tax Credit.Twenty percent of all municipalities, mostly smaller towns in the North Country, award the mandatory minimum of $50, while 60 percent are at or near the $500 maximum award.Others are scattered at rates in between. If the All Veterans Credit is adopted, it will replace the current Standard Tax Credit in that town, Rice said.The same tax credit must be awarded to, and be the same for, all veterans in each town.The time periods that will be eliminated under the new option are those that fall between “periods of conflict,” such as from the end of World War II to the start of the Korean War, from the end of Korea to the start of Vietnam, and from the end of Vietnam to the invasion of Grenada.Almost all of the time since Grenada has been covered under a single blanket authority for anyone who was deployed outside the United States.Not everyone who was deployed was necessarily in combat, however. Only 10 percent of those in uniform ever see combat, according to government statistics.Naval crews at sea, support troops at logistics installations or air bases, and administrative, legal and medical personnel are examples of those who may have served “in country” and are eligible for the current tax credit, but were never in danger of enemy action.“The exact number of veterans who would be added to the tax credit rolls cannot be known, since there is no way to have counted them,” Rice said, “but it is not expected that the numbers will be very large, since these peacetime periods coincided with the most significant reductions in the size of the armed forces.” In addition, many who served in those periods also overlapped into eligible periods.Veterans should check to confirm that their town has the All Veterans Property Tax Credit question on this year’s ballot. If not, they should fi le a petitioned warrant article for its adoption.If there is a concern about the potential budgetary impact of providing tax credits to more veterans, towns could take the option of first sending a questionnaire with the next tax bills to determine how many would apply, and then holding the vote next year.“This is a matter of treating all those who served in the military on a fair and equal basis,” said state Rep. John Martin, R-Bow, a retired U.S. Army fi rst sergeant with 29 years of active-duty service, and a co-sponsor of the bill. “You wouldn’t ask a veteran when and where they served before saying, ’Thank you for your service,’ and you shouldn’t put down a veteran’s peacetime service by denying them the same benefit as their comrades-in-arms,” said Martin. “They all earned it, and all were ready to fight.”Individuals or municipalities wishing to learn more about the All Veterans Property Tax Credit should contact Rice at fcrice@comcast.net.
“Individuals can volunteer to enter the military, but they have little or no say as to where or when they will actually serve.’’
FRED RICEprime sponsor of bill that created the new law
We here are Post 95 have initiated a petition for the Town of Conway to add a warrant article for the next town meeting. Please pass the word to friends neighbors and family to be aware of this benefit to veterans and to ask that they adopt it. Our veterans deserve no less. Any questions please contact me.
Karl PfeilCommander, Post 95 North Conway NH 03860603-356-6899 home978-835-1839 cellbravo19@roadrunner.com