BVA Scholarship Winners

Cameron Mitchell - 2021 Award

Bill Yontz Memorial Scholarship

Cameron Mitchell Receives 2021 Award
On Tuesday August 3rd, 2021 in Havelock, North Carolina several BVA members that included the BVA President Myron Kyle, BVA Board Members Stacey Pollard and Dave Seelye, along with the BVA Scholarship Committee Chair and Gold Star wife Margaret Pollard, met with Cameron Mitchell. Cameron is this year's recipient of the BVA Scholarship that was named in honor of Bill Yontz, a BVA Veteran and Board Member.

Gabrielle Falco - 2020 Award

Tampa, FL

Gabrielle Falco
Eight hundred marines were deployed to protect Lebanon and coordinate the Palestinian withdrawal. The goal was to provide peace to Lebanon between Muslim and Christian groups after a decade of war prior. Sadly, on October 23rd, 1983 a suicide bomber killed 241 marine peacekeepers in what is known as the, "deadliest attack against US Marines since the battle over Iwo Jima in 1945."

Galen Rydzik - 2020 Award

Tampa, FL

Florida Scholarship Winners
The attack of the Marine Barracks in Beirut forever changed global perspectives on terrorism because it unofficially marked a policy of hostility by many in the Middle East towards presence of American peacekeepers, and it marked a strong dissent of western countries toward Middle Eastern terrorism.
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