More Drama At The VFW

It's been a while since I've had any VFW drama to report, but you're in for quite an action-packed update today.  Let's flashback a couple of months.  In April, we had elections for officers for the new year, and in May the officers were officially installed and took office.  Things were fine in at the Post and Auxiliary the month of June, and then all hell broke loose.  Last week at the monthly Post and Auxiliary meetings, just about everybody in office except me, the Auxiliary secretary, resigned.  Keep in mind the annual Post picnic is this coming Saturday, and the people that had been planning and organizing the picnic were among those that resigned. 

First, I'll cut some slack - the Post Commander's cancer came back, and our only fault with him resigning is that he didn't do it sooner so he could have gotten the hell out of the crazy Post. His wife, the Auxiliary President resigned so she could devote what minimal spare time she has to taking care of her husband.  The second wave of resignations were equally justified.  The Auxiliary Treasurer resigned so she could devote more time to take care of her elderly, very sick father. Then the Post Quartermaster (their equivalent of a Secretary and Treasurer) resigned because he didn't want to work with whoever the new Commander will be.  The Post's Senior and Junior Vice Commander both resigned for the same reason, as did the Post's Ritual Team.  It's all just a mess.  At least the Auxiliary has our positions covered - the Senior Vice President automatically moved up to President, and the Junior Vice President was automatically moved up to the Senior position.  And we were able to coerce a new member into taking over the Treasurer duties.  So we're all covered.  But things are still pure chaos on the men's side. 

Our meeting last Sunday afternoon went way smoother than I'd anticipated.  Rumors had started to fly earlier in the week about the resignations, and I spent some time doing damage control, but I really think things will work out fine for the Auxiliary.  The new President and Treasurer and I attended the VFW "School of Instruction" this past weekend, and now we know all there is to know about our office positions. Yeah, right.   If we just keep telling ourselves that, we'll be okay.