We are pleased to announce that Arthur D. Smith, Director of the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, has accepted our invitation to address the audience attending EchoTaps Worldwide 2007 on May 19, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.
Mr. Smith will deliver the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EchoTaps Mission Statement during his remarks.
For more information, please visit our EchoTaps - Minnesota web page at ...
http://home.att.net/~militarysalute4/index.html
Jeff Seeber - Project Director
EchoTaps 2007 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery
We are pleased to announce that Clark Dyrud, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, has accepted our invitation to address the audience attending EchoTaps Worldwide 2007 on May 19, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.
Mr. Dyrud served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 as a squad leader with the U.S. Army's 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Mechanized Regiment and was wounded in combat. In 1973, he began working with Veterans as the Pennington County (MN) Veterans Service Officer. In 1976, he was named Community Service Coordinator for the Psychiatric Unit of Northwestern Hospital in Thief River Falls. Mr. Dyrud joined the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs in 1980 and was appointed Supervisor of the Department's Fargo Branch Office in 1981. From 1985 to 2004, he served as Claims Division Supervisor in the Department's Fort Snelling office. He was named Director of Veterans Programs in 2004 and then appointed Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs in March, 2005.
For more information, please visit our EchoTaps - Minnesota web page at ...
http://home.att.net/~militarysalute4/index.html
Jeff Seeber - Project Director
EchoTaps 2007 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery