Alabama DAV Convention To Be Held In Mobile

 Members of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) from across Alabama will hold the annual Department of Alabama convention in Mobile on June 6 and 7 at the Mobile Marriott on Airport Boulevard. The group will chart the course for how the state will serve its veterans throughout the year. More than 200 DAV members—including many ill and injured veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan—are expected to attend, as well as DAV members from Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Florida. Convention business sessions will include adopting resolutions to be submitted to DAV’s annual national convention. Several of these mandates are expected to concentrate on improvements in the rights and benefits earned by more than 4 million veterans disabled in wartime service. The convention’s highlight will be a banquet on June 7 with Scott Hope, DAV deputy national service director for training, and Jane Casher, national fourth junior vice commander for DAV Auxiliary, as the featured speakers. The election of new DAV state-level officers for the coming year will be held on Saturday.