LZ Russell's Periodic Newsletter

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES!

Happy Veterans Day!

Just a reminder to my brothers, on November 10 we will be celebrating the 230^th birthday of the Marine Corps.  A lot has happened over this period of time and the Marine Corps has changed in many ways.  The thing that should never change is the pride that we hold in our beloved Corps.  While we are celebrating this birthday, do not forget our fallen comrades from LZ Russell.  Also we need to remember all of the Marines all over the world that are in harms way this very moment on this very special day.  Happy Birthday Marines! 

As most of you know, Randy Epperson and I were back on the LZ on April 12, 2005.  For myself, to be back on the LZ after so many years was truly beyond words or emotions.  We are going back again in late March or early April 2006.  If anyone feel sthe need to go, please contact me or Randy.

Kenny Heins
 

A tiny note from Skip:

It has been a long and very weird time since I got a SITREP out, but we're rolling again.  During this time our website has been deleted from our server in Deming, New Mexico, completely rebuilt and posted to Network Solutions servers...an old and very reliable Internet Service company.  It may not look like anything has been happening, but we essentially compressed 5 years of work and did it again in about 4 months...a brain frying  job if ever there was one. 

So, I went to the hospital and asked them to take my teeth out so it would look like I was doing something.  Then I took a nap, swallowed a vitamin and got back to work. You will see a bunch of it here, but most of it you won't see unless you cruise through our entire web site and see the modifications, additions and updates to our web site.

About those additions and updates;  I put a special request in at our Reunion in Vegas this year for some help.  Fortunately, some of the guys have volunteered.  So, the stack of over 1,000 additions and updates, from new pictures and articles to email address changes and personal web page corrections that you have sent in should start dwindling as soon as I get everyone assigned and trained to take over Directorship of one of our web site Sections.  We could still use some help, though.  I have run out of time.  Every time I sit down to work our site I realize the faster I go, the behinder I get! 

Knowing how to do web pages isn't necessary.  We just need folks who would answer questions for members and sort out data to send to me, so I can get it on our web site.  If you can contribute an hour a week of your time, type up and send an email and attach a picture to it, contact our members and help keep the interest and participation in your section,  it would sure help me out so I can spend more time getting things posted to our web site.  Just let me know by email.  I will be building a web page to tell all about it soon....very soon.  As a Section Director you will get all the benefits and pay the Webmaster gets...zilch.  Still, you will also find there is a great sense of satisfaction in being on a team who is doing something extraordinary for future generations that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

Big deals are in the works involving multi-media presentations on our site.  The LZ Story media presentation is about to begin.  At least one book is in the works (Doc Smith) and we are hoping to see our beautiful faces on The History Channel in the future.  We got about 25 videos in Las Vegas to add to our Library of Congress Oral History Project, including some great testimony from some of the wives.  Joe "Doc" Mullins set that up for us.  We'll nave more about this in the next SITREP Newsletter.

Speaking of wives, they will soon have a new website all their own on LZ Russell.  It is about time!  Lord knows they have been every bit the combat veteran we have, only they don't get medals!  Their story is every bit as significant to the LZ Russell Story as our Member stories are.  They are one of us.   So keep an eye out for their web site.  It will be coming soon.

It's good to be back!  A new spirit is taking over our web site and association.  I hope you catch it, because it is a great feeling!  We have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to American History and leave a legacy of the reality of war from those who lived it for generations to come.  It is more than just history, though.  It is us.  We are leaving a bit of ourselves for future generations to get to know.  LZ Russell is a part us that will live for a hundred, or a thousand, or maybe even ten thousand years from now.  The future will be able to look at us and see where they came from.  They may wonder how they made it that long, but they will thank us for letting them share the time we lived, through the eyes of those who lived it...you.

Semper Fi, Brothers

Skip

THUY ANH GRADUATES!!!