December 2016

          NCWC BUGLE CALL
News 

Website and Bugle Call 

We have a new website and website address www.nwcwc.net Please make sure to use the new address. Also visit the new website and sign up for the Bugle Call on there. We have made some changes and are going a different route to get the Bugle Call out to you. So if you wish to continue to receive the your monthly edition of the Bugle Call you must re-sign up for it. Another feature I am hoping to incorporate into the new website is to have the Bugle Call posted on it as well. 

Membership

All Unit commanders, Unit reps and Battalion Commanders must have 2017 membership forms turned in before January 6th 2017 so your votes count at the January 19th 2017 board meeting. It has already been stated that if you turn your form in at the January board meeting you will not count for voting! Memberships will not be processed at board meetings!
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Membership Reminders for 2017

* Absolutely NO renewals will be processed at events! Remind everyone to get their forms in early.

* Anyone participating at an event must have membership forms or pay to play forms and payment in before any participation can occur!

*Everyone regardless of age must have a membership form and release of liability to be at an event! This means even babies and all kids and all adults MUST HAVE A FORM!

* The new definition of a "family" went into effect July 1st 2016. 
   Family means - 2 adults living at the same address and their dependent child/children who they can claim on their taxes. This is the same as the IRS tax rules. 
If you have a minor child who does  not live with you but you can claim them on taxes contact Cindy for an exception otherwise absolutely no exceptions for this rule!

Online Membership is here

Signing up or renewing your membership is now available online. Go to www.nwcwc.net and look under the membership page for your online form. Fill it out and submit it. This will take you to a payment page and as soon as the membership coordinator receives this and verifies with the unit commander your membership cards and parking pass will be mailed to you.

Any questions can be directed to the membership coordinator

Cindy Hilchey
[email protected]


The following is a poem by Confederate soldier William Gordon McCabe giving his thoughts on Christmas Night 1862.

The wintry blast goes wailing by,
the snow is falling overhead;
I hear the lonely sentry's tread,
and distant watch-fires light the sky.

Dim forms go flitting through the gloom;
The soldiers cluster round the blaze
To talk of other Christmas days,
And softly speak of home and home

My saber swinging overhead,
gleams in the watch-fire's fitful glow,
while fiercely drives the blinding snow,
and memory leads me to the dead.

My thoughts go wandering to and fro,
vibrating 'twixt the Now and Then;
I see the low-browed home again,
the old hall wreathed in mistletoe.

And sweetly from the far off years
comes borne the laughter faint and low,
the voices of the Long Ago!
My eyes are wet with tender tears.

I feel again the mother kiss,
I see again the glad surprise
That lighted up the tranquil eyes
And brimmed them o'er with tears of bliss

As, rushing from the old hall-door,
She fondly clasped her wayward boy -
Her face all radiant with they joy
She felt to see him home once more.

My saber swinging on the bough
Gleams in the watch-fire's fitful glow,
while fiercely drives the blinding snow
aslant upon my saddened brow.

Those cherished faces are all gone!
Asleep within the quiet graves
where lies the snow in drifting waves, -
And I am sitting here alone.

There's not a comrade here tonight
but knows that loved ones far away
on bended knees this night will pray:
"God bring our darling from the fight."

But there are none to wish me back,
for me no yearning prayers arise
the lips are mute and closed the eyes -
My home is in the bivouac.

William Gordon McCabe