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THE ORIGINAL SITE "THE ORDER OF THE SILVER ROSE" WENT DOWN LOSING ALL RECORDS FOR THE SILVER ROSE

THE ORIGINAL SITE "THE ORDER OF THE SILVER ROSE" WENT DOWN LOSING ALL RECORDS FOR THE SILVER ROSE IS A BIG SET BACK FOR THE VIETNAM VETERAN RECIPIANT OF THE MEDAL FOR BOTH THE LIVING AND THE DECEASED!Because I'am a Vietnam Veteran and a recipient of the Agent Orange "Silver Rose Medal Myself the loss of the original website "The Order Of The Silver Rose" at: http://www.google.com/search?q=main+menu+page+site:www.silverrose.info was a big set back to all the Vietnam Veterans both living and deceased who were all recipiants and because all our records have now been lost I have therefore set up the first authorized - unauthorized replacement site my goal in doing so is to hopefully regain the lost files from the original website. This maybe alot harder that it first may seem because it will require every Vietnam Veteran who recieved the Agent Orange Silver Rose Medal to resubmit all their information and proof including the Medal number and a copie of the Awards Certificate.
Article by Greg Payne
MY RECORDS OF REQUESTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE DOWNED SITE. Page 1
HERE ARE SOME OF THE PAPER DOCUMENTATION THAT I MANAGED TO SAVE ON THE REQUIREMENTS I HAD TO MEET TO RECEIVE THE AGENT ORANGE - SILVER ROSE MEDAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.......

Fortunatly I saved as much as I could from the original website but I have my own websites posted on the Internet on Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo! Groups just to mention a few so I have alot of sources of access for other Silver Rose recipients to join up and maybe we can pull this thing back together,. the more recipients I can gather back up the better off we are all going to be the sites I have to offer you to visit and join upincluding worthy causes the sites are as follows: My website:ALSO WENT DOWN

AGENT ORANGE - A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES Then I have one on both Facebook and on Yahoo! Groups other recipiants can join is agent_orange_a_requiem_for_the_masses · AGENT ORANGE - A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES yet another new site THAT ONE ALSO WENT DOWN and this one is: The Order Of The Silver Rose now everybody will have a little something to fall back on until we can get our membership up which will be huge between both the living and the deceased I will need the cooperation of the families of the deceased to join in because I personally have been pushing Congress to pass the Agent Orange "Silver Rose Medal" to be authorized as our Nation's first "Chemical Wound Medal" equal to the Order Of The Purple Heart with full Medical Coverage, but without all our records lost now we have nothing to found our complaints on yo Congress. So let's pull together people I DID LOOK AT MY PICTURES POSTED BELOW.

MY AGENT ORANGE "SILVER ROSE" CEREMONY PICTURES TAKEN AT BOTH THE OREGON VETRERANS' HOME IN THE DALLES, OREGON, AND AT THE VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON FAIRGROUNDS ON SUNDAY NOVENBER 6th 2005

     
      TO THE GIRL WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE TO
POINT THE WAY TO THE AGENT ORANGE "SILVER
ROSE MEDAL" MS KAREN ROTH.                 
                           

          
        
            "THE SILVER ROSE" AGENT ORANGE
                    MEDAL DISPLAY PLAQUE
          AT THE VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS
              SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th, 2006
         
            "THE SILVER ROSE" AGENT ORANGE
                   MEDAL DISPLAY PLAQUE
           AT THE VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS
               SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th, 2006




                                      PICURE #2  (CLOSE UP)
          
       (ME) GREG PAYNE, WAITING FOR THE SILVER
       ROSE CEREMONY TO BEGIN AND MY NAME TO
       BE CALLED ...
      
 (ME) GREG PAYNE KISSING U.S.CONGRESSWOMAN
DARLENE HOOLEY OREGON STATE REPRESENATIVE,
AFTER SHE PUT THE SILVER ROSE MEDAL UP OVER
 MY HEAD.

        
    U.S. CONGRESSMAN & WASHINGTON STATE REP.
    BRIAN BIARD PLACES THE "VETERANS OF
    OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" UP OVER
    MY HEAD AT THE VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS ON
    SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th 2006.
       
U.S. CONGRESSMAN BRIAN BAIRD
 WASHINGTON STATE REPRESENATIVE JUST 
 FINISHES UP PUTTING THE "VETERNS OF OREGON
 HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" UP OVER MY HEAD.

      
       U.S. CONGRESSMAN BRIAN BAIRD THEN
 PRESENTS ME WITH THE CITATION CERTIFICATE
 FOR THE "VETERANS OF OREGON HONORABLE
 SERVICE MEDAL" AT THE VANCOUVER
 FAIRGROUNDS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th 2006.
       
 TWO MEDALS IN ONE DAY BOTH FROM THE
 UNITED STATES SENATE AND THE UNITED STATES
 CONGRESS!  (WOW!) WHAT A HUMBLING
 EXPIERENCE!  MY FRIEND MARYANN EDWARDS
 AS MY CNA ESCORT FROM THE OREGON VETERANS'
 HOME STAND BEHIND MY CHAIR. 

       
       MY FAMILY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT MY MOM, HER
 BROTHER MY UNCLE KENNY, WIFE MARIE, MY  
 MOM'S YOUNGER SISTER MY AUNT DOROTHY AND
 MOM'S OLDER SISTER MY AUNT MARION, ALL AT
 THE AGENT ORANGE SILVER ROSE CEREMONY,
 VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS, SUNDAY NOVEMBER
 5th 2006.    
        
       (ME) GREG PAYNE, HOLDING THE "SILVER
     ROSE" AMD THE "VETERANS OF OREGON
     HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" CITATION
     CERTIFICATES AT THE "AGENT ORANGE "SILVER
     ROSE" CEREMONY VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS
     SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th 2006.
         
  (ME) GREG PAYNE, HOLDING THE "SILVER
 ROSE" AMD THE "VETERANS OF OREGON
 HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" CITATION
 CERTIFICATES AT THE "AGENT ORANGE "SILVER
 ROSE" CEREMONY VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS
 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th 2006.



           
         Corporal Larry Yockelson U.S. Marine Corps #411-06
         Sergeant First Class James R. Breese U.S. Army #412-06
            Specialist E-4 Gregory Zelmar Payne U.S. Army #413-06
                      Specialist E-5 James Dillion Jr. U.S. Army #414-0
                   Specialist E-4 Nicola Martino U.S. Army #415-06

             
 CLOSE-UP OF (ME) GREG PAYNE, HOLDING THE
 "SILVER ROSE" AND THE "VETERANS OF OREGON
 HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" CITATION
 CERTIFICATES AT THE "AGENT ORANGE "SILVER
 ROSE" CEREMONY VANCOUVER FAIRGROUNDS
 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5th 2006.  (PLEASE NOTE MY
 MEDAL'S AUTHINICATION NUMBER #413-06 ON
 THE LOWER LEFT CORNER OF MY CITATION
 CERTIFICATE.)
   
   MY AUNT DOROTHY TAKES A DRINK OF WATER
   FROM A BOTTLE WHILE I (GREG PAYNE) MY MOM,
   AND MARYANN EDWARDS MY CNA ESCORT  FROM
   THE OREGON VETERANS' HOME ALL LOOK ON AT
   THE MAN TALKING TO ME AT THE NATIVE
   AMERICAN INDIAN "SALMON BAKE" AT
   WOODBURN, OREGON.  THIS WAS THE LAST
   PHASE OF MY MEDALS CEREMONY TRIP, AND 
   NATURALLY IT WAS ALL WET, RAINY, AND COLD
   FROM VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON TO WOODBURN,
   OREGON  THE WHOLE DAY DURING THE MEDALS
   CEREMONY, BUT THE TRIP OUT FROM THE DALLES,
   OREGON WAS WELL WORTH IT!
      

CONGRESSIONAL  REPORT

                  

KAREN ROTH FROM THE VFW "COOTIES" AND I CELIBRATING OUR VICTORY OVER THE VA.

                       
                        
                         
                (ME) GREG PAYNE AND KAREN ROTH OF THE
 VFW  COOTIES CELABRATING OUR VICTORY OVER
 THE VA BY HOLDING UP MY AGENT ORANGE
 "SILVER ROSE MEDAL AND CERTIFICATE IN A
 FRAME ALL READY TO HANG BACK UP ON THE WALL
 IN MY ROOM AT THE OREGON VETERANS' HOME IN
 THE DALLES, OREGON.  THE PLACQUES ON THE
 WALL IN THE BACKGROUND IS A COLLECTION OF
 ACHIEVEMENTS AND A LIFE TIME OF MY WORK FOR
 THE VETERANS AND FAMILY. KAREN HELP ME ALOT
 IN HER EFFORTS TO OBTAIN THESE TWO MEDALS. 
 SHE PUT HER'S AROUND MY NECK.
                       
   PICTURE #2 (ME) GREG PAYNE AND KAREN ROTH
 OF THE VFW  COOTIES CELABRATING OUR VICTORY
 OVER THE VA BY HOLDING UP MY AGENT ORANGE
 "SILVER ROSE MEDAL AND CERTIFICATE IN A
  DISPLAY PLAQUE.
              

                  PICTURE #3 (ME) GREG PAYNE AND KAREN
 ROTH OF THE VFW  COOTIES CELABRATING OUR
 VICTORY OVER THE VA BY HOLDING UP MY AGENT
 ORANGE "SILVER ROSE MEDAL" AND
 CERTIFICATE.  
          
                   

(ME) GREG PAYNE WITH MY AGENT ORANGE "SILVER ROSE MEDAL" AND MY "VETERANS OF OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" IN A DISPLAY FRAME IN MY ROOM AT THE OREGON VETERANS' HOME IN THE DALLES, OREGON.

                    
                 
                   (ME) GREG PAYNE HOLDING UP
    MY AGENT ORANGE "SILVER ROSE MEDAL AND
    CERTIFICATE IN A FRAME.
                       
             
                     
 (ME) GREG PAYNE HOLDING UP MY "VETERANS OF
 OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" AND  
 CERTIFICATE IN A FRAME IN MY ROOM AT THE
 OREGON VETERANS' HOME THE DALLES, OREGON.
      
           
     






                
      (ME) GREG PAYNE HOLDING UP MY AGENT
      ORANGE  "SILVER ROSE MEDAL" AND THE
      "VETERANS OF OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE
      MEDAL" CERTIFICATE IN A FRAME.
                      
             

(ME) GREG PAYNE RECIEVING MY FINAL ENGRAVED COPY OF MY "VETERANS OF OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" FROM THE STATE OF OREGON.

     
                     
         (ME) GREG PAYNE RECIEVING MY ENGRAVED &
     FINAL COPY OF MY " VETERANS OF OREGON
     HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" AT THE OREGON
     VETERANS' HOME THE DALLES, OREGON
                
       (ME) GREG PAYNE RECIEVING MY ENGRAVED &
 FINAL COPY OF MY " VETERANS OF OREGON
 HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL" UP AND AROUND MY
 NECK AT THE OREGON VETERANS' HOME THE
 DALLES, OREGON 97058.
        

MY MEDAL OF VALOR CEREMONY

     
                                                     

                  
                      (ME) GREG PAYNE  RECIEVING THE
 "WARRIORS MEDAL OF VALOR" GIVEN TO ME BY 
 THE  NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS, TRIBES INCLUDE
 THE SIOUX, THE CHEYANNE, THE CROW, THE
 COMMANCHE, THE CHEROKEE, THE BLACKFOOT,
 THE YAKIMAS, THE NAVAHO, THE NEZ PIERCE, THE
 ARAPAHO, AND THE APACHE.  IN SHORT IT WAS
 "THE NATIVE AMERICAN CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
 STATES OF AMERICA COUNCIL." AT THE OREGON
 VETERANS' HOME B-WING DINING ROOM AREA. 
                      
                          (ME) GREG PAYNE  RECIEVING THE
 "WARRIORS MEDAL OF VALOR" GIVEN TO ME BY 
 THE  NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS, AT THE OREGON
 VETERANS' HOME B-WING DINING ROOM AREA THE
 DALLES, OREGON.
                   

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