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March 2025

February 2025

Commemorating Black History Month 2025
02/28/2025

Transportation at the Pasadena Village
02/28/2025

A Look at Proposition 19
02/27/2025

Behind the Scenes: Understanding the Pasadena Village Board and Its Role
02/27/2025

Beyond and Within the Village: The Power of One
02/27/2025

Celebrating Black Voices
02/27/2025

Creatively Supporting Our Village Community
02/27/2025

Decluttering: More Than The Name Implies
02/27/2025

Hidden Gems of Forest Lawn Museum
02/27/2025

LA River Walk
02/27/2025

Message from the President
02/27/2025

Phoenix Rising
02/27/2025

1619 Conversations with West African Art
02/25/2025

The Party Line
02/24/2025

Status - Feb 20, 2025
02/20/2025

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
02/17/2025

Dreams by Langston Hughes
02/17/2025

Haiku - Four by Fritzie
02/17/2025

Haikus - Nine by Virginia
02/17/2025

Wind and Fire
02/17/2025

Partnerships Amplify Relief Efforts
02/07/2025

Another Community Giving Back
02/05/2025

Diary of Disaster Response
02/05/2025

Eaton Fire: A Community United in Loss and Recovery
02/05/2025

Healing Powers of Creative Energy
02/05/2025

Living the Mission
02/05/2025

Message from the President: Honoring Black History Month
02/05/2025

Surviving and Thriving: Elder Health Considerations After the Fires
02/05/2025

Treasure Hunting in The Ashes
02/05/2025

Villager's Stories
02/05/2025

A Beginning of Healing
02/03/2025

Hectic Evacuation From Eaton Canyon Fire
02/02/2025

Hurricanes and Fires are Different Monsters
02/02/2025

January 2025

Return with Honor Film honors our Servicemen

By Meanderings BLOG
Posted: 09/29/2020
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The Return with Honor Film project is a series of in-depth interviews with a group of Navy and Marine airmen who were captured and systematically tortured as Prisoners of War during the Vietnam War.

Theirs is an incredible story of human courage, military discipline, the struggle to survive and fulfill one's mission, and extraordinary dedication to principles of honor and commitment.

I post this film because I think it contains important messages for our community of Pasadena Village. In this film we are seeing a community made up of the servicemen who were captured. They are in extreme circumstances, we are not in such circumstances, but we are also a community.

What maintains a community?  This film shows us what gave them strength and held them together was communication. They had autonomy over their communication, and by doing so it became a tool in preventing isolation. That message comes through very clearly in this film and those are values that are very important to our community. Communication and autonomy.With these important elements, you will survive through and deal with difficult circumstances in life. These are the lessons that we can take away from this film.
 
 
 
 
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