Tweets show preservation of burned military records

A preservation expert at the Military Personnel Records archive, in north St. Louis County, is tweeting pictures and details of her job at the National Archives in St Louis, MO.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/02/fred_watt_fought_as_black_comb.html

Here's the reunion info you will need for Oct 2017

Event has been finalized and you can now book your hotel room either by phone or via online registration. Yeah!

When: Thursday, Oct 12 through Saturday, Oct 14, 2017

Where: The Crowne Plaza Hotel - Cherry Hill, NJ

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Phone Registration: 1-877-227-6963

You can now register online too! https://aws.passkey.com/e/49054337

Please state that you are with the "Seahorse Sweethearts" to get our group rate.

Deadline - Monday, Sept 11, 2017

Price: $99.00 per night for either one room with (1) King or one room with (2) Queens

Group registration fee - none

Nearest airport - Philadelphia International

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There are several in-house restaurants/bars. Free parking and Free internet. For further information, please click on the Crowne Plaza Hotel link above.

Received this email a few days ago...

Proud to say that one of "our own", has just published a book regarding her father. Congrats, Cheryl. Can't wait to get my copy this week. Thanks for sending that to me.

In the Face of Obstacles

Her father was with the 34th Inf Div

Here's a description (taken from Amazon.com)

In the Face of Obstacles is the true story of a heavy machine gunner in World War II. It chronicles my father's experience as told by soldiers who were there with him, by photographs including his own, and by his regiment narrative histories. Put them all together, and a detailed account of their daily lives unravels with boot camp dirt in the green hills of Alabama; a seasick troop ship across the Atlantic Ocean to Casablanca, where "A-rabs ain't got cigarettes" and camels stink; a dusty boxcar ride across North Africa, where people live underground; hardcore training camps in the desert of Algeria, where cognac doubles as lighter fluid; and a thousand miles of frontline combat in a rugged country called Italy. It is all through the eyes of "the infantrymen who would likely be wounded or killed."