LEWISTON — The September monthly get together of the Southern Maine Squadron of the Sampson AFBVA will be at noon, Thursday, Sept. 12, at Governors Restaurant, 1185 Lisbon St.
This is a get-together of veterans that went through basic training at Sampson AFB and their guests. Any and all veterans are welcome to attend.
The speaker will be Claire Starnes, who was raised in Lewiston and enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps, serving in Vietnam. Following military service she continued as a civil employee of the Department of the Army in Public Affairs. Following retirement, Starnes and a former Vietnam roommate co-founded Vietnam Women’s Veterans Inc. It’s purpose was to find all nonnursing military women officers and enlisted who had served in Vietnam and bring them together. Their book, “Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories,” was published in 2015.
Sampson was at first a Navy training base from 1942 to 1945, then reopened as a basic training base for the Air Force 1950 to 1956.
For more information, phone Bob Sawyer at 207-657-4909.
