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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

President’s Message

As we work our way through ever. I want to reiterate this point: just one member each.
the year 2021, and hopefully Our numbers have reduced mainly due to the passing of
through the COVID pan- our shipmates. However, our new member applications
demic, I, like many of you, are are few. The younger generation might not know or real-
yearning to return to normal. ize the work military associations do behind the scenes.
NERA is looking forward to I know many of us have friends, relatives, etc. who have
a time when we can all meet members of their families that are currently in the service
again at regional and national or have recently left. Please reach out to them, tell them
conferences. That being said, I about our mission and encourage them to join.
Joanne Elliott, YNC am reminded that we all need
National President
to start looking to recruit new As you all know, we work with many other organizations
members and even reach out to those whose memberships through the Military Coalition to preserve our benefits
As you all know, we work with many other organizations

through the Military Coalition to preserve our benefits

and to protect the interests of our members.

have lapsed. We have started a campaign at NERA to get and to protect the interests of our members. Encourage
these “lost members” back. A letter has been sent out to those that you are recruiting to visit our NERA web-
those with lapsed memberships. If you know any “lost site and peruse our past magazines. I know they will be
NERA members,” encourage them to return. We will give impressed with the work we are doing for their benefit.
them a multi-year discount.
As always, reach out to us with any questions or
I, like many of you, belong to several different organi- suggestions.
zations, all of whom are probably sending you the same
message. Renew, rejoin, renew! I am being conscientious
about keeping up my memberships and I hope you do the
same. Previously, I have stated that if each one of us only Joanne Elliott
recruited one person a year, we would be in the best shape President, NERA

For the latest military

COVID-19 information,

visit

https://www.militaryonesource.mil/

coronavirus

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