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GREW UP IN PENNSYLVANIA GRADUATED FROM SPRING FORD HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1966 THEN ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND MADE HIS CAREER - STARTED HIS MARTIAL ARTS TRAIING IN OKINAWA IN 1966-67 WITH MASTER TATSUO SHIMABUKU IN ISSHINRYU BEFORE HEADING TO VIETNAM MOVED TO FLORIDA 1988 HIGHLY DECORATED VIETNAM COMBAT VETERAN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS SERVED IN TET OFFENSIVE VIETNAM 1967-1968 SERVED WITH 1st BATTALION /9th MARINES / BRAVO COMPANY (THE WALKING DEAD) HEAD NCOIC INSTRUCTOR AT QUANTICO VIRGINIA (THE BASIC SCHOOL) WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR FOR OFFICERS AFTER SERVING IN VIETNAMSOME OF HIS MILITARY AWARDS ARE AS FOLLOWS: GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL w stars, VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL, VIETNAM CROSS OF GALLANTRY, VIETNAM CIVIL ACTION MEDAL, NAVY UNIT CITATION, PRESIDENTIAL UNIT COMMENDATION, PRESIDENTIAL CITATION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL, NAVY COMMENDATION, PURPLE HEART w star and THE COMBAT ACTION RIBBON ALSO RIFLE AND PISTOL SHARPSHOOTERSERVED AS POST COMMANDER 1994-1999 AMERICAN LEGION POST 273 (LARGEST POST IN FLORIDA) NOW LARGEST POST IN THE COUNTRY (1ST VIETNAM VETERAN TO BE POST COMMANDER POST 273) RECEIVED “JACK ADAMS AWARD FOR BEING BEST COMMANDER IN STATE 1994-1995SERVED AS DISTRICT COMMANDER 1996-1997 (ALL TIME HIGH MEMBERSHIP) RECEIVED “JOSEPHINE LOCICERO AWARD” 1996-1997 (BEST CHILDREN/YOUTH CHAIRMAN IN STATE) SERVED TWO TERMS 1997-1999 DEPT. OF FLORIDA STATE SGT.-AT-ARMS SERVES ON NATIONAL LEGISTLATIVE COUNCIL FOR AMERICAN LEGION SERVES AS DEPT. OF FLORIDA POW-MIA CHAIRMAN NATIONAL POW-MIA COMMITTEEMAN FOR FLORIDA NATIONAL VICE-CHAIRMAN FOR AMERICANISM COMMISSION FROM FLORIDA AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HOSPITAL REPRESENTATIVE AT BAY PINES VA HOSPITAL FOR OVER 28 YEARS RECENTLY WAS NOTIFIED FROM NAC THAT HE WAS THE RECEPIENT OF THE NATIONAL VA VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2017-2018 FROM VA CENTRAL OFFICE FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY FOR THE WORK HE DOES AT BAY PINES VAMC. HE REPRESENTS THE AMERICAN LEGION AS THE HOSPITAL REPRENTATIVE AND AN ADVOCATE TO HELP VETERANS PRESIDENT OF PINELLAS COUNTY VETERANS LIAISON COUNCIL OVER 18 YEARS ORGANIZED FOOD BASKET PROGRAM AND HOT MEALS FOR HOMELESS VETERANS ESTABLISHED 1ST POW-MIA MONUMENT IN FRONT OF ANY LEGION POST IN THE COUNTRY IN 1995 AT POST#273 HONORED AS LEGIONNAIRE OF THE YEAR 1999,2002, AND 2005 LIFE MEMBER OF AMERICAN LEGION, VFW, DAV, AMVETS, HONOR SOCIETY 40/8, VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, AND ALSO A MEMBER OF THE ARMY-NAVY UNION AND “THE FAMILY”(VIETNAM VETS BROTHERHOOD) ALSO AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE KOREAN WAR VETERANS AND THE AMERICAN EX-POW’S SERVED AS HONOR GUARD COMMANDER POST #273 FOR OVER 12 YEARS AND THEN ORGANIZED THE NEW PINELLAS COUNTY VETERANS LIAISON COUNCIL HONOR GUARD. ORGANIZED THE LARGO COURT OF HONOR IN LARGO CENTRAL PARK WITH USSOCOM COMMAND JUMP TEAM IN 1999 HE BECAME PERMANETLY DISABLED DUE TO COMBAT WOUNDS AND SEVERE CANCER DUE TO AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE WHILE SERVING IN VIETNAM, HAD TO STOP WORKING BUT CONTINUED WORKING AT HOME FOR VETERANS WHO NEEDED HELP PRESENTED THE SILVER ROSE AWARD IN 2000 FOR TERMINAL CANCER DUE TO AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE WHILE IN REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (QUANG TRI PROVINCE) ALSO HONORED BY THE JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF AMERICA WITH THEIR DISTINQUISHED SERVICE MEDAL AND SPECIAL PLAQUE FOR HIS OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO ALL VETERANS ON MAY 8, 2001 ON NOVEMBER 12, 2001 DAVID WAS PRESENTED A SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD AT THE ANNUAL VETERANS DAY PROGRAM AT BAY PINES VA MEDICAL CENTER BY THOMAS WEAVER, MEDICAL CENTER DIRECTOR AND GENERAL TOM DRAUDE ,USMC FOR HIS DEDICATED WORK ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS THROUGHOUT PINELLAS COUNTY! ON MAY, 2, 2002 DAVID WAS PRESENTED THE HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD BY MAYOR BOB JACKSON AND LT. GENERAL MICHAEL DELONG (USMC) DEPUTY COMMANDER IN CHIEF (MACDILL) AT THE 14TH ANNUAL LARGO PRAYER BREAKFAST IN 2004 DAVID COORDINATED AND WAS THE SUCCESS IN MOVING THE VETERANS DAY PARADE AND CEREMONY TO THE CITY OF SEMINOLE FOR THE 1ST TIME SINCE DAVID HAS CONTINUED TO SUFFER FROM HIS DISABILITY AND MAKES HIS MOBILITY MORE OF A PROBLEM, HE STILL WORKS TO HELP LOCAL VETERANS WITH THEIR PROBLEMS AS WELL AS KEEP PATRIOTISM ALIVE AND AT THE TOP OF HIS PRIOITY. HE IS A PROUD AMERICAN AND LOVES HIS COUNTRY. HE MADE SURE HIS SONS FOCUSED AND USED THEIR INNER MARTIAL ARTS IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIFES. HE ALSO HAS BEEN ABLE TO SEE HIS SONS FROM HIS SECOND MARRIGE GROW INTO EXCELLENT STUDENTS WHILE CONTINUING THEIR EDUCATION. BOTH OF HIS SONS, JEREMIAH AND ADAM ALSO TEACH AND TRAIN IN MARTIAL ARTS AND BOTH ARE WORLD, NATIONAL AND STATE CHAMPIONS IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES AND STYLES. THEY HAVE TRAVELED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS AND HE IS VERY PROUD OF THEM. BOTH HIS SONS WHO HAVE TURNED INTO YOUNG MEN HAVE RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS TO COLLEGE AND ONE IS TAKING CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE OTHER IS GOING TO TAKE BUSINESS MARKETING. DAVID LIVES IN LARGO FLORIDA BUT AS HE WORKS FOR VETERANS HE TRAVELS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. IN JULY OF 2007 DAVID MILLER WAS INDUCTED INTO THE BATTLE OF ATLANTA HALL OF FAME FOR OFFICIALS FOR OVER 39 YEARS OF DEDICATION IN THE MARTIAL ARTS BY MASTER JOE CORLEY, BILL “SUPERFOOT” WALLACE AND DON “THE DRAGON” WILSONIN JULY OF 2008 DAVID MILLER WAS PRESENTED HIS 3RD DEGREE BLACK BELT IN UNITED STATES CHUNG DO KWAN BY THE US CHUNG DO KWAN ASSOCIATION IN AUGUST OF 2012 DAVID WAS PRESENTED HIS 3RD DEGREE BLACK BELT IN OKINAWAN GOJU RYU MARTIAL ARTS FROM OKINAWA