[caption id="attachment_106" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="(l to r): Roger Blunt, Antoinette Ford, Minton Francis, and JC Hayward"][/caption] We are honored to have MG (ret) Roger R. Blunt serve as our Honorary Chair for our 5th Anniversary Celebration. Currently, General Blunt is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Essex Construction, LLC. He is a Civil Engineer and a Nuclear Engineer, registered professionally

On June 21, 2011, we will launch the first of a series of workshops and cooperation between the Double Nickels Theatre Company, the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH), Washington, DC, and the German Historical Institute (GHI). The three organizations have joined together for an oral history program as part of the GHI’s research project on The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany, interviewing local AFRH residents about their

Double Nickels Escorts Five WWII Veterans to the National Memorial Day Festivities No cooking out for me this year. Instead I opted to escort five WWII veterans to the National World War II Memorial and have them participate in the beautiful wreath laying ceremony. This was indeed a sincere and humbling Memorial Day. By ten o’clock the sun was high over the mall and not one of the vets was the least bit wilted. And their average age was 89 years