Mickey DePalo BHS 64 at Burbank's Veterans Day Ceremonies 2009From Pam Kirkwood's "The Loop"
Over in our "Congratulations Department" we see that our good friend Mickey DePalo '64 was recently honored by the California State Assembly as "Veteran of the Year"...This is an honor well-deserved by Mick. Besides being a Viet Nam Vet himself, Mickey has dedicated countless hours of his own time serving on the Burbank Veterans Commemorative Committee (who each year organize and present the Veterans' Day Ceremony and Memorial Day Ceremony at Mc Cambridge Park, where Mickey emcees the program), Mick also has carried on the "Hands Across the Battlefield" Program that supplies much-needed personal items to our service people in the Middle East and Mick single handedly pushed to get the Larry Maxam Memorial Park program off the ground and approved by the Burbank City Council. As a result, the former Pacific Park will be re-named and dedicated to Burbank's only Medal of Honor recipient, Larry Maxam '66 R.I.P. Mickey never misses an opportunity to "do" forVeterans, whether running a marathon on behalf of them or just stopping to say a kind word...We are PROUD of you, Mickey...Congratulations...
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