All voted aye. A. Minutes of the regular meeting held on August 18, 1998. The Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter and auxiliary are involved in the community throughout the year. Many activities are one on one such as placing a headstone for a veteran or assisting a veteran with applying for benefits. These activities can not be quantified by time or occurrence.
Many activities are on-going and participated in by the whole post.
The Honor Guard participated in 61 funeral services, in 1997, at the National Cemetery. Twenty-five of these were full guard with rifle salute, thirty with flag service only, and six with flag service and Post Chaplain providing grave side service. It takes a minimum of nine men to do the flag service only and seventeen for full guard with rifle salute. Thru June, Post 1165 has had 42 funeral services in 1998. In the last two years they have put in 3,500 hours with the Honor Guard at funeral services.