Flight. I just had to drop a line as today 33 years ago, I was told to report to Van Burin Street, the army induction center. From there I spent 3 mo. of fun at Fort Leonard Wood MO. From there it was on to lovely Fort Rucker. And the next stop was of course Lane Field. I guess I was lucky, I was with a great bunch of guys, and came back in one piece. But it was a wild ride altogether. Something I will never forget. So when this day comes around I always feel a great sence of appreciation for my time in the 129th., and the 30 years after. Only someone that was there can understand what I am talking about. Stay well all. Bill Whelan #277 - Windy City Lane Field - 68,69
Bill Whelan <bwhelan@thedisplayworks.net>
chicago, IL USA - Monday, July 31, 2000 at 12:51:56 (MDT)

Flight: Well hope all of you are good health and spirits. Been really busy with work but hopefully it will slow down. In the process of having more shirts printed. Went through 150 shirts in the last year. Bur will get the orders out to everyone as soon as I get the shirts in. Appreciate your patience. Charlie Rains will be heading to Loisville to find hotels for next year's reunion. And as soon as I get the info. I will pass it on. As I said we want to get as many of the 129th there. Well I don't if Mark and the the rest have reclaimed the the Bunker Hill chat line yet. Take my Brothers and sisters. Alex
Alex Fernwalt <alfern@bellsouth.net>
Memphis, Tn USA - Friday, July 28, 2000 at 08:45:01 (MDT)

Bill on two that went awol. Was that John Chauncey and John Thorpe ran a Korean road block and they shot Thorpe. I think it was in 1 1/4ton they stool a A/c unit from Phu Cat Air Base I think that is what I heard. The WP all I remember was it was that crew chief that got killed and he was a tall skinny kid. Frenchie might remember a little more on that. Alex my orders on other brothers have no addresses only ssn and serial #s. Did Charlie give you any hints on that free site? Does anybody have Rick Waite's e-mail I lost mine when puter crashed. BC me thanks. Be careful out there. Rick England 129th AHC Bite N Strike Lane Army Airfield Bull Dog 431 The Iron Butterfly 623 388 2628 20417 Denver Hill Wittmann Az. 85361
Rick England <bd431@inficad.com>
Wittmann, Az USA - Monday, July 24, 2000 at 22:23:21 (MDT)

Evenin' Flight,........hope all is well as can be with everybody. Skids are off the ground hear thanks. Dear Katharine Marsee, you are very welcome to join us in here, at the reunion or any time you want to. Please feel free to stay active in here. Hopfully you can jog a few memories of these guys to recall Mr. Shanley. Good luck on your research, and thanks for helping to keep a 129th Man's spirit still alive. BILL RODDIS..............I have commo about both of those incidents that you speak of. To the best of my knowledge there are some refrenses to them somewhere in the flight log book in the back archives. May take you a lil time to find them, but I am sure they are there. Unless someone can talk about them again in here Take care flight...................Pop-A-TopII................Clear Left,
Mark Jackson <fourfour@bright.net>
LZ HOME, USA - Monday, July 24, 2000 at 14:54:35 (MDT)

Hi gang. Received some good news today. I have never been able to get to Washington DC to see the Vietnam Wall which someday I hope to. The replica of the Wall is coming to Uniontown from August 11th to August 13th. Many activities and ceremonies are being planned during those three days. Needless to say i'm very excited and plan to attend. Maybe some of you can attend. I hope so.
Arthur Campbell <campbe@dc1.net>
Cardale, PA USA - Sunday, July 23, 2000 at 19:11:08 (MDT)

The VHFCN Family Contact Committee has been approached by a Lady who has been wearing an MIA braclet for a crewman, Michael H Shanley, from the 129th lost on 12/2/69. She has had contact with some members, but is expanding her search to get information on his loss and any other information in respect to his tour in Vietnam. If you can shed any light on the events of 12/2/69 please feel free to contact me at Toadhall47@aol.com Regards, Jack Taber 4/77 ARA 68-70
Jack Taber, VHFCN Family Contact Committee <toadhall47@aol.com>
Amherst, NH USA - Sunday, July 23, 2000 at 19:00:11 (MDT)

Hello Flight; Here is a question for those with good memories. In the summer and fall of "68" two guys got themselves killed. One went AWOL in a 3/4 ton truck and got shot up at an ARVN bridge guard post. The other crewman took a Willie Pete grenade that didn't go off and with his hand beat the top of it on a rock to get it to fire. Neither one died for "the cause" but none the less should be remembered. Peugh was the name of one of them. Clear out the cob webs and put them on the wall. I'm "clear left" for now.
Bill Roddis <piopub@mcn.org>
Ft. Bragg, CA USA - Thursday, July 20, 2000 at 23:38:23 (MDT)

Hello flight, I sat down the other night and came up with a web page for the fallen brothers of the 129th. if you find any information that needs to be corrected please e-mail me and let me know http://members.tripod.com/~Donald_6/129thwallnames.htm or you should be able to click on my name to get there Mar 69 - 70
Don Miller <ayla@c2i2.com>
Valley Farms, AZ USA - Thursday, July 20, 2000 at 08:57:40 (MDT)

When is the reunion in Louisville next year? I was not a member of the 129th but, I wear Michael H. Shanley's bracelet and would like to participate if you will allow me. If not, just say the word and all will be okay. Michael was a mmember of the 129th in 1969. He is MIA. Thanks and Welcome Home.
Katharine Marsee <fricabeunme@msn.com>
Elizabethtown , ky USA - Wednesday, July 19, 2000 at 09:42:16 (MDT)

The pictures of the reunion are great! Finally I can connect faces to names, in some cases I can connect legs to names(LOL). Next year in Kentucky guys! Anyone up for some helicopter tattoos at that time? I'll go first-Gently
Gently <GentlyJ@aol.com>
Milwaukee, WI USA - Tuesday, July 18, 2000 at 19:38:34 (MDT)

Flight: Well Charlotte behind us and Louisville ahead of us. Our goal is too triple the size of the 129th attendance. As we age. we are looking for our Brothers of Nam! Nam took us from teens to men in very short period of time. This time will always be somewhere in our minds. And, Our Fallen BROTHERS always in our minds and hearts. In the last year our numbers have grown. And thats to the thanks of Mark and the 129th homepage. To me personally I don't care wether a man flew or did maintence we all were there dependind on each other. As I reflect over this past reunion. I am proud to be associated with one Hell!! of a group of men. For Louisville lets try and find ways to find our lost Brothers and family and love ones of our FALLEN BROTHERS to reunite in 2001. Alex
Alex Fernwalt <alfern@bellsouth.net>
Memphis, Tn USA - Tuesday, July 18, 2000 at 08:49:22 (MDT)

Bill Hewit--Not totally sure about the all details but I think we made three drops and 1 didn't ignite. Seems we tried to shoot the other with the M60's with no success. By the way, my origional post was incorrect in that we (the Koreans) tied Willy Pete grenades to the barrels and hooked the wire to an O-ring on the floor, not thermite. Again, what a hoot it was doing it, we were a poor mans F-4 with napalm. The one scarry thing I remember is that either the CE or Gunner was not strapped and was riding beside the Korean and when I made a hard bank after the drop I remember him stumbling ascoss too other side if the aircraft and grabbing the seats verticle supportor or the door frame to keep from falling out. As I remember he wanted to see the action and I wasn't paying attention and allowed him to unbuckle (no smart on my part). Any, scarred the hell out of me. Lou
Paul "Lou" Tenhet <pqt2@trilobyte.net>
Tooele , Ut USA - Friday, July 14, 2000 at 23:07:12 (MDT)

Speaking of Foo-Gas drops, I got to call one in for the CG while flying Tiger Wagon. I'm sure Augie Bailey was there and I dont remember who else. The hitch came when the general insisted on lighting it himself. I don't think he could have hit the ocean from a pier with the 60 though. One of our Gunnies finally got it going for him. C'est la vie. Aloha, Animal
Greg Henkel <tatu@gte.net>
Puna, HI USA - Friday, July 14, 2000 at 20:29:58 (MDT)

One of my first 'missions' in RVN was a FOO GAS drop. A CH-47 dropped the barrels and the UH-1 would roll in and light them off with M-60 tracers. This was in late 1970. I was the door gunner since I hadn't received my 'in-country' check-ride as pilot. Seemed like a good idea at the time. And no, I couldn't hit shit! I don't think any of my rounds even hit Vietnam! So much for OJT! Later, Mike Miles
Mike Miles
USA - Friday, July 14, 2000 at 08:28:22 (MDT)

hey lou - were you ac when we picked up 3 or 4 55 gal. barrels of stuff & dropped them on a hill above a "vill" & then tried to set them off with "willy pete" ? had no success grenades hit surrounding rocks & kept bouncing off hill - made beautiful starbursts . macv o-1 got real pissed . wouldn't let me use 200 rnd. belt of tracers to shoot holes in barrells either - would have riccoched into "vill" -was better to sprinkle "willy pete" on the "vill" !!!!!!!! heh-heh heh-heh smoked meat !!!!!!!!!!!! out bill
bill hewit <wahiv@wizzards.net>
roseburg, or USA - Friday, July 14, 2000 at 00:21:23 (MDT)

Hey guys, do any of you remember flying with me some time in early to mid '69 when we dropped the FOO Gas on that suspected VC position east of the Cav Regt HQ. It was very close to the location where Cpt Hammond, WO Reger and a crew member or 2 were wounded. I just thought about it at the VHPA Reunion. Anyway, when we returned to Lane for lunch we went to the Mess Hall to eat and were laughing about it when a LTC at the next table overheard us talking and asked about what we had done. Come to find out he was the Battalion Commander and he immediately left and went and chewed out the Company Commander because word had been passed down that dropping that stuff was forbidden since a week or so before a CH47 came close to being blown up when the thermite grenade exploded while the barrels were stil hucked up to the cargo hook. Needless to say the Company Commander got the worn out ASAP. It really was a hoot dropping that stuff,I remember us making at least 2 drops, and I guess we were the last crew to do it in VN. Lou
Paul "Lou" Tenhet <pqt2@trilobyte.net>
Tooele, Ut USA - Thursday, July 13, 2000 at 22:52:01 (MDT)

The scrufty looking guy holding the m79, in front of the slick, is Matthew Casey. My best friend and motorcycle mentor for close to 30 years. If you looked at him today you wouldn't think they were one and the same. I was with the 213th ASHC (Hooks) out of Phu-Loi, '69-'70. I was a door-gunner and stayed a gunner for my full tour. I had a lot of respect for the crew-chiefs and flight engineers but, I knew I wasn't up to the responsibility. Casey was. He's always been that way. We met in Germany after our tours. Believe it or not we were both on the post Security Police together. Both were surplus in the 421st medivac and got sent to the SP's. He got out and wound up as the 421st CO's crew-chief 'cause he had the stractest ship. You wouldn't think it by seeing the picture. Needless to say the 421st medivac (UH-1H's) didn't need Chinook gunners, so I wound up as the PFCIC of the dump (good job). To all you guys that've been there - never forget those that couldn't come home. Oh yeah, t-shirts are in the mail!!
Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@sanmina.com>
Watsonville, Ca. USA - Tuesday, July 11, 2000 at 23:53:17 (MDT)

YO 129TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!....ROLL CALL FOR THE VHCMA GIG IN CHARLOTTE ALEX AND LIZ FERNWALT PETE AND TJ RHOME DON AND JEAN PURVIS ROBERT AND CAROLYN LEE SAM AND SHARON HENNESSEE DON MCCORT BERRY WINLKER BILL FRENCH ROBBIE ROBINSON RICK ENGLAND GLEN PEARMAIN AND DEE AND I................IT WAS A WONDERFUL TIME AND A GREAT TURN OUT FOR THE 1ST 129TH MINI IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VHCMA GIG. HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET MORE TO MAKE IT NEXT YEAR IN LOUIEVILLE,KY. I ERGE ALL WHO HAVE THE CHANCE, (WHETHER YOU HAVE NOT SAID THE WORD "VIETNAM" IN 30 YEARS OR NOT), TO MAKE IT TO ONE OF THE GATHERINGS. I COULD SEE BY MANY THERE, THAT IT MADE THEM ALL FEEL BETTER AFTER THEY HAD CAME. AS DON MCCORT SAYS, HE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR THE BOTHERHOOD THAT HE KNEW IN NAM FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS............ HE FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN AT THE REUNION. ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FOR THE NEXT GATHERING WOULD BE A TAIL ROTOR SECTION!!!!..A COUPLE OF THE UNITS IN CHARLOTTE HAD THEM AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA FOR US TO HAVE ONE ALSO. WE CAN PUT SOME OF THOSE WINDOW STICKERS THAT MATT CASEY HAS MADE FOR US AND PUT THEM ON IT AND THEN HAVE ALL THAT SHOW UP SIGN IT. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE I COULD GET A HOLD OF A TAIL ROTOR SECTION????...THE ONES I SAW IN CHARLOTTE WHERE COMPLETE TO THE SPLINED HUB IN THE CENTER. I MUST APOLIGIZE TO ALL OF YOU FOR IT TAKING ME THIS LONG TO MAKE A POST IN HERE. I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS SUMMER HAS BEEN A BITTER SWEET SUMMER.... TO HAVE MET SO MANY OF YOU THIS YEAR AS WE ATTENDED THE ROLLING THUNDER RALLY AT DC IN MAY, AND THEN THE VHCMA REUNION AT CHARLOTTE IN JUNE.........AND TO BE A PART OF IT ALL...AND TO HAVE LARRY'S DOORGUNNER OF 2 MONTHS IN NAM RAP HIS ARMS AROUND ME ( ROBBIE ROBINSON )..AND TO HEAR THE STORIES AND TO HEAR THE VERY NICE THINGS THAT YOU ALL HAVE SAID TO MY WIFE , DEE, AND I........WELL.............IT HAS BEEN OVER WHELMING AND HARD TO SWALLOW.........I CAN REPORT NOW THAT I HAVE FINALLY FOUND MY BOOT STRAPS NOW AND HAVE PULLED MYSELF FROM THE HOLE I WAS IN. WE ALSO HAD SOME NET FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE KNOWN THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE US OVER FOR A BBQ AT THEIR HOUSE. JACK GILMORE ( 179TH AHC ) AND HIS WIFE CAROLYN.PLUS WE HAD A FEW MEN THAT WE KNOW FROM THE NET SORTA HANG WITH THE 129TH GANG ALL WEEKEND. MARK ( FISH ) HERRING ,,,,HARRELL( CUE ) GUIDRY AND DID A LIL' HANGIN' WITH RICK ( SHAKEY ) VOGEL ALSO...............ALL VIETNAM VETS AND MEN THAT WE A PROUD TO CALL OUR FRIENDS. THERE ARE PIX OF BOTH THE DC RUN AND THE GIG IN CHARLOTTE ON THE 1ST PAGE OF THE 129TH PAGE. PLUS MATT CASEY STILL HAS SOME 129TH WINDOW STICKERS LEFT AT THE COST OF $7.50 EACH. IF YOU DONT HAVE A WINDOW STICKER YET GET ONE....FOR 2 REASONS...ONE BEING TO DISPLAY YOUR PRIDE IN THE 129TH AND THE OTHER TO HELP MATT COVER THE COST OF HAVING THEM MADE. WE HAVE NEVER MADE A PROFIT ON ANY OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE FOR SALE ON THE PAGE SUCH AS THE STICKERS, T/SHIRTS, PATCHES, OR HAT PINS. EVERYTHING IS PRICED TO COVER ONLY THE MAKING AND THE SHIPPING TO YOU THERE HAVE BEEN SOME NEW PICTURES ADDED TO THE GALLERY PAGE. CHECK THEM OUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME. ONE FINAL NOTE....THE MOVING WALL WILL BE COMING TO MY HOMETOWN (COLDWATER OHIO) THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 16TH THROUGH THE 22ND.....AGAIN I INVITE ANYBODY THAT CAN MAKE THE TRIP HERE TO COME AND SHARE IN ITS POWER WITH ME. I SERVE ON 2 OF THE COMMITES THAT ARE WITH THE PROJECT. IF YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN HELP THIS TO HAPPEN BY SENDING IN DONATIONS TO ME. ALL MONEYS GO TO THE UPKEEP OF THE WALL I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT I AM VERY PROUD TO BE A SAMLL PART OF ALL OF THE 129TH COMING BACK TOGETHER. I FEEL THAT IT IS A MISSION THAT MY BROTHER HAS PUT IN FRONT OF ME, AND I TAKE THE CALL.............THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR A JOB SO WELL DONE SO LONG AGO AND WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....ALWAYS YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER, MARK AND DEE
Mark Jackson <fourfour@bright.net>
LZ HOME, USA - Tuesday, July 11, 2000 at 19:28:22 (MDT)

Hi everyone, I would like to thank Mike Hardy for putting that speech on the page. I have had a rainstorm going on the inside & some on the out side since i read it. Over 15 years at the VA, I have had a lot of men tell me the same type of thing. Most were MOS 11B etc these are very eloquent words & they are true of all of you according to the Vets I meet & over that time span in a daily contact they have been countless. My wife broke into tears when she read that speech. It may have helped her get a little closer to how we feel. For some reason, I havn't been able to do as well at that as i'd like over the 19 years we have been married. I would like to thank Mark Jackson for putting the picture I sent him in the gallery. Solo ones, last picture, Me & my (date). Taken at the club on the hill New years 1971-72 in case you want to know what i used to look like. Hope some of you are able to help that young lady with some info about SFC Shanley. Hope all are well as i have not seen a post on here from some of you in some time. The pictures of reunions are all great & nice to see what some folks look like & to know that I have not aged gracefully alone! Yours as always; Smitty
Jim Westwang <westwang@cyberhighway.net>
Sheridan, Wy USA - Tuesday, July 11, 2000 at 15:09:47 (MDT)

I would like to say now that I,ve had time to reflect back on the reunion.Iam both honored and humbled the have met other brothers of the 129th.Mark Jackson,Alex Fernwalt,Barry Winkler, Donnie Purvis.Sam Hennessee.Robert Lee,GLenn Pearmain,Pete Rhome and Rick England also the wives that atended. I felt more brotherhood in onehalf day then in twentynine years and quite possable my year in Nam. Not knowing then how I would fell today.Iam also sorry that I missed a few other Brothers that came and left before I arrived.I urge all the brothers of the 129th to contact other brothers of the 129th to attend next years reunion in Louisville Ky.on about the third week of June,2001Also advise them about this outstanding web page. May GOD bless you all
Don McCort <mccortfmly@aol.com>
Seminole, FL USA - Sunday, July 09, 2000 at 18:30:46 (MDT)

I would like to say now that I,ve had time to reflect back on the reunion.Iam both honored and humbled the have met other brothers of the 129th.Mark Jackson,Alex Fernwalt,Barry Winkler, Donnie Purvis.Sam Hennessee.Robert Lee,GLenn Pearmain,Pete Rhome and Rick England aaaaaaaaaaalso the wives that atended. I felt more brotherhood in onehalf day then in twentynine years and quite possable my year in Nam. Not knowing then how I would fell today.Iam also sorry that I missed a few other Brothers that came and left before I arrived.I urge all the brothers of the 129th to contact other brothers of the 129th to attend next years reunion in Louisville Ky.on about the third week of June,2001Also advise them about this outstanding web page. May GOD bless you all
Don McCort <mccortfmly@aol.com>
Seminole, FL USA - Sunday, July 09, 2000 at 18:28:33 (MDT)

Would like any information on Michael H Shanley. POW/MIA Dec. 2 1969 Flew with 129th. Thanks and Welcome Home
Katharine Marsee <fricabeunme@msn.com>
Elizabethtown, Ky USA - Sunday, July 09, 2000 at 07:44:10 (MDT)

If you missed it hear are the best wrods ever spoken about us. My opinion. Subject: Joe Galloway's remarks 0907 02 July 2000 VVM Remarks prepared for delivery Sunday July 2, 2000, at VHPA Memorial at The Wall: Is there anyone here today who does not thrill to the sound of those Huey blades?? That familiar whop-whop-whop is the soundtrack of our war……the lullaby of our younger days. To someone who spent his time in Nam with the grunts I have got to tell you that that noise was always a great comfort. It meant someone was coming to help…..someone was coming to get our wounded……someone was coming to bring us water and ammo……someone was coming to take our dead brothers home…..someone was coming to give us a ride out of hell. Even today when I hear it I stop…..catch my breath…..and think back to those days…… I love you guys as only an Infantryman can love you. No matter how bad things were….if we called you came. Down through the green tracers and other visible signs of a real bad day off to a bad start. I would like to quote to you from a letter Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wrote his friend Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the Civil War: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come---if alive." That was always in our minds and that is how we thought of you. To us you seemed beyond brave and fearless…..that you would come to us in the middle of battle in those flimsy thin-skinned crates…..and in the storm of fire you would sit up there behind that plexiglass seeming so patient and so calm and so vulnerable…..waiting for the off-loading and the on-loading. We thought you were God's own lunatics…..and we loved you. Still do. We are gathered here this morning to appreciate the lives and honor the memory of 2,209 helicopter pilots and 2,704 helicopter crewmen who were killed while doing their duty in the Republic of Vietnam between May 30, 1961, and May 15, 1975. Theirs are some of the names among the 58,220 on this precious Wall. So many good men…..so many good friends. Before I come here I always remind myself of what another good friend…Captain B.T. Collins…. who is now gone….liked to say at gatherings like this: No whining and no crying! We are the fortunate ones! We survived…..when so many better men gave up their precious lives for us. We owe them a sacred debt…..to live each day to its fullest….trying to make this world a better place for our having lived and their having died. So we come here today to remember them…..and to celebrate their lives and their deeds. I like to come here at dawn……or around midnight…….when things are so quiet you can hear their voices. What they are saying…..when you listen hard enough……is this: We are at peace; so should you be…….so should you be. I would like to close by reading you from something written by a World War I poet named Lawrence Binyon: They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them…..nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them! God bless all our absent friends……and God bless you.
Mike Hardy <Mhardy9148@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, July 09, 2000 at 07:14:25 (MDT)

Flight: Well Liz and I want to thank everyone who made the reunion. We had a great time meeting everyone of you. The 129th flag flew high!!! Everyone wanted pictures of it. We shared alot of feelings that were being held inside for all these years. But, we were able to share with our 129th BROTHERS. Liz and I left the reunion with alot of new friends. I also realized the old mind isn't as sharp as it once was. After seeing LANE FIELD from the begining when the 161st first built the field. It jared a little memory back. Our favorite cowboy Glenn Pearmain shared his experiences of having to crew in white levi jeans but we didn't have uniforms at the time. Next year is Louisville,KY. And I hope to double our numbers. That gives us a year to get ready. I just want say Charlotte was great!!! Well Flight! Just keep looking we have even touch the surface. We 129th Brothers out there we need to find. Take Care Bro's Alex
Alex Fernwalt <alfern@bellsouth.net>
memphis, tn USA - Friday, July 07, 2000 at 08:11:22 (MDT)

Mark the pics came out great for the page. At least you didn't say anything about hte belly.Heeeeee Thanks Brother. Did you recover from the 4th. Hope you didn't blow Coldwater Ohio up! Be careful out there. Rick
Rick England <bd431@inficad.com>
Wittmann, Az USA - Wednesday, July 05, 2000 at 22:09:47 (MDT)

Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Have a safe 4th. Remember the fallen as well as we who are still here. Have a good one Mark...
Stacy McLain <mclain@infomagic.com>
Flagstaff, AZ USA - Tuesday, July 04, 2000 at 12:17:31 (MDT)

Hi to all, sounds like everyone made it to N.C. & back safe & I sure hope everyone has a safe 4th of July. Thanks Mark & Dee for a look at that web site, it says a lot. I managed to get my grubby little hands on a 97 1200 sportster & may try to make the RFTW next year, but 1st i will probably take a short run to Sturgis when it gets here 1st week in Aug. If anyone is going, give me a holler. I live 200 Mi. west of there. Phone is (307) 672-8704 Later, Smitty (Jim)
Jim Westwang <westwang@cyberhighway.net>
Sheridan, Wy USA - Monday, July 03, 2000 at 10:12:21 (MDT)

To the flight have a safe and happy 4th of July. Rick England 129th AHC Bite N Strike Lane Army Airfield Bull Dog 431 The Iron Butterfly 623 388 2628
Rick Englandb <bd431@inficad.com>
Wittmann, Az USA - Monday, July 03, 2000 at 08:49:49 (MDT)

Frenchie sorry I missed you the day you left. Good to meet up with you at the reunion and your right I didn't grow anymore since you seen me last Ha Ha. Good to se you man. Sam and your wife what friendship we had with all. Thank you. I know you made a list of the people we met I would like to have copy of that if possible. CRS Mark and Dee thanks for starting this page so we can have the a part of the 129th together. Hope to see more in Louisville next year. One day the 129th reunion might be a reality. Love to all. Rick
Rick England <bd431@inficad.com>
Wittmann, Az USA - Saturday, July 01, 2000 at 09:06:51 (MDT)

I can't think of a better time than I had with the old 283rd bunch. Alex, Rick The man... Mark the 283rd brother that we all wish that we could have. His beautiful wife.. all that I can now put the names with the faces. It was well worth the trip. I'll be the old man sitting on the park bench with a big grin on my face thinking about the great time I had.. I missed Bill and Roddis, soon we will all be together again. Someday.. does anybody know how to reach the guy that did those ausome wood plaques?
Bill French <frenchie-745@mindspring.com>
marietta, Ga USA - Saturday, July 01, 2000 at 01:46:49 (MDT)