wonderful group we've interviewed them a number of years but this is the i am the auxiliary president for the american legion auxiliary the state of michigan marian younker repression and you are the on the state banner for the american legion for the whole american legion for michigan while we've got a couple of wonderful people here who pour a lot of time into those tasks and your own i'm rodney well and i think i think so many people are familiar with the name and they may be familiar somewhat with what the american legion is all about but i'd like to have one of you tell us a little bit more so that those that might have an inkling can get more fully educated in really get gaijin and hopefully get behind the incredible work that you do on a regular basis and tom would you like to tell us a little bit about that latest is the largest veterans organization in the world and approximately three million our education opportunities that we offer we have scholarships that are offered to children of veterans in particular and a lot of these scholarships you know they wouldn't have any  scholarship available and we really pushed that we put millions of dollars in in scholarships every year so you've got the education you said the national security and as well as really looking out for the that time the veterans were had been coming back and they had nothing they were and they were getting medical or any other benefits although it was actually where they formed so you wouldn't think we'd have to fight for our own support of the incredible gifts that all of you have given and not just the individuals but the families that supported as well and marion you have some special projects that are going on i'd like you to  little bit about the work that you're doing as well thank you wendy i'm here today happily representing at that time the almost thirty thousand auxiliary there's within the state of michigan in my special project this year has been the woman veteran when the girls that are coming back from deployment now come back they need special needs that have not generally been met by the v a facilities they have different kinds of needs and so we have within the state of michigan raising funds for that my one thing i wanted to mention is that secretary of the veterans affairs eric shinseki just came out with a new hotline for women to do to so that they can call this number and get all of the references and things that they need that number would be one eight five five be a woman so try to remember that and talk to your female veterans that you see and let them know that this is available that again that number one eight five five v a woman and rodney you have been a part of this michigan over of seen some of the the work that you tell us a little bit more about where which they split up and go to different places all over the united states and the state of michigan where about twenty one thousand strong in the sons of the american legion and our eligibility comes from our plodders our mothers who served in the military and then we can join underneath them or our grandfathers also myself i am an army veteran but fall underneath the cracks of peacetime but we're very proud about that and i just want to say this post six here in holland is really really showing us a great time there really thank you guys very much i'm so glad you said the exec to say off on the air here as some incredible people directly with the american legion from holland and correct me if i'm wrong you said you're with the sons of american legion but there's also a daughters of american legion program is there not are no you're going to undergo they come under the exhilarates so it doesn't matter you can still get involved and i think that might be a surprise to some people either not just those that were right serving but rather those that are connected to the families that have served as well that is correct rank of tell you what why don't you give some rapoport for us here well i'm going to ask europe a couple weeks go to do a couple years ago to normandy and they just simply lead this saturday parade as the proud band and these are wonderful but that's another american legion activity and  hurt so we don't have as many service officers out there assisting veterans with their clients kind of hurts us if hopefully they'll reinstate it we hope so too so any of them any of the final questions frankly are words that we have from this incredible team or anything that they would like to add we're just going oh i would like i would just like to reiterate what ronnie said about the poster they've been so helpful and everybody in town seems to be so friendly and everything and if you've got a beautiful beautiful town i've never been here and it's really quite a treat it is well i hope this will be your last time back that because i know the the folks here at the post as well as the rest of the community welcome you in the great work and honor of what you are doing on a regular basis and thank you for taking time to speak with us at this time thank you welcome and they'll be more great interviews to come in what is going to be one of the best to a time experiences ever so stay tune and stay involved