PULL OUT: USS MEEKER COUNTY LST-980
Again, we urge you to view Wayne Telford's web page for an article concerning the ship that took Hotel Battery, 3/12 out of Vietnam to Okinawa.  Robb Mitchell contributes to this very interesting article.  When you are finished reading, just click the "Back" button until you return to this page.

THANK YOU MARINES!
This is a great article sent to us by Ron Schindler that shows extraordinary action taken by Marines after the attack on the USS Cole.

Sent by Bob Chatigny
Please visit the  Department of Defense web page below and sign in thanking the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom. The compiled list of names will be sent out  to our soldiers at the end of the month. So far, there are only  about 1.2 million names. What a shame. National Military Appreciation  Month.  The entire exercise takes 10 seconds...literally.   Please pass it on to your email
friends.  http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html

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More from Bob Chatigny

On Christmas Day 1968 we were setup on an LZ near the DMZ. About a click away was an Army unit on another LZ. When a Huey came flying over our LZ with Santa Claus sitting in the doorway, waving at us, we watched it land on the Army LZ. I then asked the gunny why we couldn't have Santa Claus come to our LZ and see us? His response,"Son, if the Marine Corps wanted you to know why, they would send someone out here to tell you". Semper Fi, Bob

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