They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Rotary speaker advocates for veterans
Manley
Imagine a world where returning military veterans caught up in the justice system are elevated by a collaborative approach, not ground down by the adversarial process.
That nonconfrontational world exists now, according to Judge Stephen Manley of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, who spoke to the Rotary Club of Los Altos via Zoom Feb. 18. Veterans Treatment Courts (VTC) have been established for the purpose of achieving better outcomes incorporating treatment, not just exacting punishment.
In an effort to not merely afford respect, but to avoid recidivism, judges have undertaken the responsibility to develop a special court program whose goal is to successfully return individuals who served their country to their community, Manley said.