FRIDAY, September 7, 2012
TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM / 1
Having Lunch With Our Military By: Erin Spencer, Temple College
SEPT•2012 EVENTS CALENDAR 10 We’re Central Texas Showcase Meeting, 8am 11 Military Apreciation Luncheon, 11:30am 12 Business Networking Breakfast ,6:45am 15 30th Annual Temple Model Train Show, 10am 17 We’re Central Texas Showcase Meeting, 8am, 20 Temple Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting, 8am 22 We’re Central Texas Business to Consumer Showcase, 10am 27 Business After Hours at Emerson Construction, 5:15pm
levels from platoon through division Retired (1st Armored Division), and served Lieutenant five General years in (LTG) Dave politiR. Palmer cal-miliwill be the tary keynote affairs speaker at positions in the Pentagon. He also the Military Appreciation has had a variety of educational Luncheon on assignments, as a student and in faculty or administrative roles. These roles Tuesday, include Instructor and Assistant September 11, at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Professor, U S Military Academy (1966-1969); Advisor, Vietnamese Convention Center. National Military Academy (1971Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m., 1972); Deputy Commandant, Army and the program, featuring LTG Command &General Staff College Palmer’s address, will begin at noon. (1983-1985); Superintendent, U S Hosted by the Temple Chamber of Military Academy (1986-1991); Commerce and its Military Affairs President, Walden University (1995Committee, the annual event is spon1999); and Chief Executive Officer, sored by McLane’s Advanced Technologies (5-Star General); Scott & Walden e-Learning, Inc. (1999-2000). Upon retiring from the military in White Health Care (4-Star General); 1991, LTG Palmer began writing and and Wilsonart International (4-Star lecturing on leadership, ethics, miliGeneral). tary history and the development of Tickets will be sold in advance only. character in young people. His major They are $25 each and can be purpublications chased at the Temple Chamber of include: Commerce, 2 North 5th Street in • THE downtown Temple. Sponsorships for the event are still available. The dead- RIVER AND THE ROCK: The line to purchase tickets or sponsorHistory of Fortress ships is September 10th. Lieutenant General Palmer was born West Point, 17751783 (1969) in Ada, Oklahoma, and grew up in • THE WAY New York and Texas. He graduated OF THE FOX: from the US Military Academy in 1956 and began his If you can't attend the luncheon on military Sept. 11, you can still register for career the tickets to sponsor soldiers on Fort same year. Hood! What better way to show During his appreciation for our military? career, LTG Palmer served two tours in Vietnam, a American Strategy in the War for total of eight years with combat arms America, 1775-1783 (1975) • SUMMONS OF THE TRUMunits in NATO, and six years at Fort PET: U.S.—Vietnam in Perspective Hood, Texas. He held command at all
(1978) • 1794: America, Its Army, and the Birth of the Nation (1994) • WHY AMERICA IS FREE: A History of the
founding of the American Republic (Editor, 1998) • WASHINGTON: FIRST IN WAR (2000) • PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE (Reissue of 1794) (2002) • GEORGE WASHINGTON AND BENEDICT ARNOLD: A Tale of Two Patriots (2006) • GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MILITARY GENIUS (2012) He also is a commentator on a variety of television productions including The American Revolution (The History Channel); Benedict Arnold (A&E Biography Series); George Washington (A&E Biography Series); West Point (Modern Marvels); West Point (PBS); The Hudson (PBS); Washington the Warrior (The History Channel); Benedict Arnold (The History Channel). LTG Palmer has received several honors that include receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Duke University (1989), being designated a Distinguished Graduate of West Point (2005) and being designated as an Outstanding Alumnus of the Army War.