Welcome to the medal of valor ceremony. I ask you that remain standing by the San Francisco color guard and the singing of the National Anthem by officer kyle church. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave thank you, and please be seated. Thank you for attending tonights medal of valor ceremony. Im essentialisergeant rachael. Im pleased to recognize those on page and acknowledge those who helped make this medal of valor ceremony possible. Sorry. First thank you to the San Francisco Scottish Rite Masonic Center for their continued generosity in allowing us the continued use of their facility. Next id like
O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave thank you, and please be seated. Thank you for attending tonights medal of valor ceremony. Im essentialisergeant rachael. Im pleased to recognize those on page and acknowledge those who helped make this medal of valor ceremony possible. Sorry. First thank you to the San Francisco Scottish Rite Masonic Center for their continued generosity in allowing us the continued use of their facility. Next id like to thank the members who are instrumental in organizing this ceremony. Miss reesa thom, sergeant ray padmore and officer jones. Thank you to officer church for singing
Respected Inspection Services in San Francisco and is still in operation. Alec was active in politics serving during feinstein, agnos and brown administrations. He was personal and compassionate and wrote campaign speeches. We thank alec for his years of service to San Francisco and our deepest condolences to his family and close friends. And i would also like to do an in memorial for dennis parone. Born april 8, 1945. He served the country and served his country in the United States army during the vietnam war. Following his discharge, made his way to San Francisco and settled into the castro, where he met harvey melk and was an integral part of the melk machine. Whenever harvey needed bodies, he called dennis, who had, at that time, a cannabis operation, obviously not legal at that time. Dennis could turn people out at a moments notice and did a lot to help harvey. He met and fell in love with his partner jonathan west in 1990. Jonathan was diagnosed with aids and was dying and denni
Involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. It helped him eat. It relieved pain. In the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. And so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. Dennis opened the first cannabis club. And i believe i could be wrong, but i believe the very first one was the church at market, where people i think that was the original where people suffering tom aids would come and he would provide cannabis to them. That cannabis, like what happened with jonathan, would relieve their pain, would stimulate their appetite. Eventually, he opened a 5story club, and i talked about this before, around the corner on market street, more of an aids hospice th
And was dying and dennis still involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. It helped him eat. It relieved pain. In the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. And so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. Dennis opened the first cannabis club. And i believe i could be wrong, but i believe the very first one was the church at market, where people i think that was the original where people suffering tom aids would come and he would provide cannabis to them. That cannabis, like what happened with jonathan, would relieve their pain, would stimulate their appetite. Eventually, he opened a 5story club, and i talked about this before, around the corner on market str