The following speeches are designed for your use as you plan for events such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and speaking engagements for general audiences.

When you address civic groups and others in your community, you are an ambassador from the DAV to the community at large. You bring the message and concerns of disabled veterans and the DAV's services to the attention of the American people. So you may want to seek out speaking engagements to use these speeches in your area.

Feel free to adapt the text of a speech to your speaking style. You may also modify or expand these speeches to suit the needs of your particular audience. But please remember, as a representative of the DAV, your remarks must not depart from the DAV's official positions when representing the DAV in public.

You can also achieve valuable publicity for the DAV if you retype these speeches in the form of a letter to the editor, and send copies to all daily and weekly newspapers in your area about two weeks before the event of the speech.

We also recommend that you contact radio and TV news directors, as well as newspaper editors, to tell them of your plans for any of the topics covered by speeches posted here.

Members needing additional assistance with publicity may request a free DAV Publicity Guide. The publicity guide is designed to help you tell the DAV story to the American people. The guide is full of examples, tips and ideas you can use in a variety of ways. Request your free copy of the DAV Publicity Guide from the DAV National Communications Department, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301. You may also e-mail your request. Be sure to include your name and full mailing address in all requests.





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