I had a chance to look at Sandy's file on the Company C bivouacs and thought about plotting a few of the locations on Google Earth. I have only spent about an hour plotting "Placemarks" and dates but WOW!! The panaramio feature has hundreds of photographs of each of the areas and I have the opportunity to view some of the actual buildings my Dad saw.
Google Earth is one of the great resources of the internet and best of all it is free. I use it quite often for mapping and there are a lot of fun and useful features
Please see attachment for further information, and a copy of the registration form, if you are interested in attending.
I am also copying the newsletter for your perusal.
I would LOVE to go, however I am attending the 36th/540 reunion the previous week, and I'm afraid that blows through my expense fund. I don't have the desire for unlimited wealth, but it sure would be nice to be able to attend all the related functions around the country pertaining to "my boys". Sigh!
Many thanks to Bill Ray for all his hard work and for making me an honorary member of the association.
Looks like there are doubles of one of the pages of the newsletter, sorry. Not feeling that hot this morning and...Yadda, yadda, excuses, excuses...
Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them.
He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.
Helllooo ,.............just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid.
So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!
Helllooooo? It's been a year! I told him.
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up. He never called back. I bet he felt like an idiot.
I am a new member of the forum. My name is James B. Watson, Jr. My Dad served in Africa & the European Theater- Naples Foggia, North Apennines, Rome, Arno & Sicily. He passed away in 1985. Looking for others who might have served & any war experiences.
