What a wonderful time. The men on the reunion committee hit it out of the ball park again. We owe them many thanks for their efforts. And how about Jim Sheppard, his room this year was complete with Victor Charlie and when I came around the corner face to face with that little feller in the black pajamas holding his AK-47 I instinctively reached for my shoulder holstered .45 which wasn't there. Good thing, I might have shot up the hotel hallway.
I had the pleasure of having my two sons with me this year and they enjoyed the reunion greatly. I drove down from Indiana and Adam drove back as my week didn't leave much time for sleeping and I was exhausted but rejuvenated at the same time. How can that happen?
Glad Pete and Mick made it home safely. I hope everyone did. Yes Pete, GOD willing I will also be there again in two years. As Mick stated 2017 will be the 100th year since the 1/50th was formed as a unit. It will also be the 50th year since the unit deployed to Viet Nam and the 20th year that we have been having reunions for the battalion. Now with all these stars lining up so to speak, everyone should do their very best to attend the 2017 reunion. We had several first time attendees this time and to a man they all pledged to be back in 2017 all declaring what a great time they had.
Tom and Dian Clark talked of maybe getting together a group of people interested in going on a cruise during the off year (2016) and Bob Gold talked of hosting an Ohio chickenfest also during the off year. Watch the message board and if things develop we could learn about it here.
For those of you who couldn't make it, you missed a great reunion. So start now making your plans for the next one. We have two years to get ready and it will be about this time of year again with notification coming on the web-site early enough to be specific on the dates. May GOD watch over and care for all my brothers till we meet again.
Randy "DOC" Smith