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MOAA SUPPORTS FRANCHISEES
MOAA President Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., USN (Ret), addressed attendees at a gathering Nov. 5, 2013, celebrating franchising opportunities for veterans. VetFran hosted the event, which launched a partnership with the Small Business Administration to enable veterans to have successful careers as franchise business owners.
Watch Ryan’s full remarks at
www.moaa.org/youtube.
APPLY FOR LOANS AND GRANTS
The deadline to apply for educational assistance from the MOAA Scholarship Fund is noon, Eastern time, March 3. Children pursuing their first undergraduate degrees whose parents are active duty or retired enlisted personnel or MOAA members are eligible to apply.
Visit
www.moaa.org/education for eligibility requirements and to access the 2014-15 online-only application.
Visiting a Novel in Kansas
In January 1861, after years of conflict, Kansas was admitted to the union as a free state. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) retells the “disputatious” history of “Bleeding Kansas,” the years of hostilities between Missouri slave-owners and the Free Staters of “K.T.” (the Kansas Territory) that followed passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Narrated by Newton, the fictional young wife of an abolitionist, this engaging book describes the hardships of homesteading and explores politics and history, including the 1856 sacking of Lawrence. The novel has a remarkable authenticity describing historical figures in K.T., individuals who were (or weren’t) “sound on the goose question” (slavery), and quaint, historical vocabulary.
The Civil War Muse (
www.thecivilwarmuse.com) has a timeline about Bleeding Kansas and offers a self-guided auto route of about 300 miles of places of interest, such as the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka and the site of the Free State Hotel in Lawrence (shown below in ruins), where Smiley describes Newton and her husband staying for a time.
— Col. Glenn Pribus, USAF (Ret), and Marilyn Pribus
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