Senator Jim Webb to Address Potomac Officers Club

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) will address the Potomac Officers Club at a breakfast event on February 4th, beginning at 8:15 AM.  Senator Webb served with distinction as a combat Marine platoon commander in Vietnam, earning the silver star, the Navy Cross, two bronze stars and two purple hearts at the infamous An Hoa Basin west of Danang.  He also served as a senior official at the Department of Defense, and has worked as an attorney, an award-winning journalist, a film-maker, and is the author of nine books.

His literary works include including Fields of Fire, widely recognized as a classic novel of the Vietnam War, Born Fighting, an ethnography that explores how the Scots Irish shaped America, and A Time to Fight, his latest best-selling non-fiction about reclaiming a fair and just America. He has worked extensively as a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, taught literature at the Naval Academy as their first visiting writer, has traveled worldwide as a journalist, and earned an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut. In 2004, Webb went into Afghanistan as a journalist, embedded with the U.S. military.

As a Senator, he has worked consistently on behalf of veterans, introducing a comprehensive 21st century GI Bill for those who have been serving in our military since 9/11 in his first months in the Senate, and within 16 months had guided the most significant veterans legislation since World War Two through both houses of Congress.  For his efforts, he has been named Washingtonian Magazine’s “Rising Star” in their “Best of Congress” edition, Politico’s “Rookie of the Year,” one of Esquire magazine’s 75 most influential people of the 21st century, and one of the The Atlantic magazine’s 27 “Brave Thinkers” of the world.

If you’re a member, be sure to click here to register for the event.

Posted by Jim Garrettson on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010. Filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry