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My Dad
I love my dad and I'm real proud of my dad and he's my hero. |
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USS Charles R Ware DD-865 Reunion
"And we have made lifelong friends with these veterans." |
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Found my MP Buddy
I met so many wonderful military people during the war, I really wish I could find all of them. |
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USS HUSE (DE-145) ASSOCIATION REUNION
Based on the comments from the attendees, everyone had a great time. |
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buddies meet
The four of us met in Bristol after 52 years! |
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looking for old buds
We had a lot of fun together back in the day. I Hope to have more in the years to come. |
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Viet Nam
Brothers in Vietnam Combat ReuniteI sent you a newspaper article on my reunion with fellow USMC Viet Nam Veterans. The article tells the story a lot better than I could. For 35 years I tried to put everything behind me and by getting in touch with fellow Marines I served with was an unbelievable feeling and in a way I realized that we did the best we could in a war which divided our country. If you have any questions please use E-mail address above. Thank you. John Rumsey Brothers in Vietnam Combat Reunite "Summarized from original article posted in the Courier Times, September 2005. John Rumsey of Langhorne was stationed in Vietnam as a teenage Marine, when he met his second family: A dozen members of the Mike Company, 1st Marine Division stationed in the Que son Valley, 1970. "The 12 of us bonded together and we became one family...After all these years, I finally realize what it all meant...It was just something special we had in that unit." On a humid January afternoon, with less than a week left on his one year tour of duty in Vietnam, Rumsey thought he saw his Marine brothers for the last time. In a firefight, a Viet Cong soldier threw a grenade at Rumsey. It bounced off his chest and exploded at his feet. He was shot in the hip and shoulder, and lost a tremendous amount of blood. His wounded and shrapnel-ridden body was flown out of the village. "I thought he had died; we all thought he had died," said Tim Akers of Wilmington, Del., a member of the unit. "He was so full of holes, he was like a pin cushion", said John Kelly of Iowa who radioed the helicopter. Rumsey almost did die that day. An Army doctor told him that if he had gotten medical attention just 15 minutes later he surely wouldn't have made it. It took 13 months of recovery and rest in hospitals in Vietnam, Japan, Maryland and, finally, Queens, N.Y. After returning home to Monroe, N.Y., Rumsey wanted to move on. The last thing on his mind was getting in touch with his Marine friends: "When I was young and got back from Vietnam, I really didn't realize the magnitude of the friendships you develop in a situation like that," he said. For the next 35 years Rumsey got on with his life: he went to college, played baseball again, opened an optometry business and started a family. This year, he began to wonder what ever happened to his Marine friends. He posted a message on a web site describing his unit and asking if anyone was out there. He first received an email from his buddy Kelly, the Marine who radioed for Rumsey's evacuation, and then a few months later from Akers, the Marine who helped carry him to the chopper. They ended up meeting at a Jimmy Buffet Concert in Philadelphia. "Seeing him and talking to him again was just an indescribable feeling...I thank God we were able to get together," Akers said. Rumsey is now on a mission to reunite all 12 guys he served with in 1970. "Once you get back together with these guys who you knew so well all these years ago, you start talking and realize, man, that was something we had back then." Rumsey said." - Submitted by J. Rumsey ' |
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'OLE WAC FRIENDS
Thanks!! Remember all our troops in prayer! |
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MACS-4 Reunion
"Let's not wait 43 years for another reunion, so a second one is planned for 2007".In 2004, I received an email from an old squadron mate who told me he was attending a reunion of another MACS outfit in San Diego. When he was here, he called me and we got together for a Sunday Brunch in Carlsbad. He suggested that we try to do a reunion of MACS-4 from the 1960-1962 era. Over the next few months, via email and phone calls and ads ran in the VFW, American Legion and Leatherneck magazines, we were able to contact about 30-35 of our former MACS-4 buddies. Unfortunately, one of them passed away on New Year's Eve BUT nine of them all joined up on a four day cruise to Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico in October of 2005. All Marines who attended agreed, "Let's not wait 43 years for another reunion, so a second one is planned for 2007". We just hope we can get MORE MACS-4 personnel to join us for the next one! Contact R.I. Kaske (760) 931-2644 for information. |
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Located Old Friend
A Great Feeling finding someone after so long..I had tried on and off for 36 years to find a friend that I served with in Viet Nam. One night I was surfing the web and came across a veteran search site. I posted an ad under "Buddy Finder" and within 2 months I heard from him. We have been "talking" via email for several months now swapping pics. We have been on the phone with each other a couple of times and we are making plans for a reunion later on next year. A great feeling finding someone after so long.. ' |
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