Perry, The site is great. Hello all from CO.C IDAHO

Perry Thanks for the adjustments on the guestbook. Works great.

We have had quite a few of you that have entered your Guestbook comments in the wrong place. I'll take the blame for most of that and have made some changes that I am hoping will eliminate the confusion.

1. Added A larger font for the underlined blue text link at the top of the page to: "Please Click Here to Leave A Guestbook Comment".

2. Restricting the number of messages to 10 and number of characters per comment to 1000. This should prevent the link to enter a Guestbook Comment form being hidden when scrolling down.

3.A message at the bottom of the page to: "Please scroll to the top to leave a Guestbook Comment."

4. A message on the Website Comment form at the bottom of the page that states "This form is for Comments about our Website. It is not for Guestbook Comments."

Our Guestbook is the most viewed page on our website. Our Brothers value and want to hear what you have to say. Please contribute to it by leaving YOUR comments too.

Willie
Found Col Snoke somewhere outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He still sounds with it.
Wanted to let the early guys know I met a retired Col a few days ago. He was a Transportation Officer stationed in Saigon and responsible for getting fuel off ships and out to where it was needed. I told him about 589th project to work on the POL line from Qui Nhon to An Khe. He knew all about the project but didn't know who did the work. He passed along his thanks. He said if they could get one good day's pumping, they could handle the needs at AK for 3 weeks. He asked that I pass on Transportation Corps thanks to those who did the work.

First off Jim Payne thank you for the up date , i will be praying for your speedy recovery brother , .

bob Spencer you know if you wanted to be cool like us em guys why didn't you transfer in ??????? THEN YOU WOULD BE COOL LIKE US LMAO . ALL LOVE BROTHER

Thanks to Perry and all the guys for your hard work on this website. It has helped bring back a lot of memories. I'm really happy to see there are still a few of us left alive.
I served in Company D from March 1966 until October 1968. I was injured and lost a few fingers in October of 1968 and was shipped to the hospital. I received a medical retirement in April of 1969. I have always felt bad that I was never able to say a proper goodbye to all of the guys I served with. At any rate it's great to be able to touch base again and would love to hear from any of the guys that are still around from my old platoon.

Jim,
I'm glad to hear you are making progress on the cancer. We are all thinking of you and wish you the best! We know you can beat this Buddy. Please keep us informed on how you're doing.

You're in my thoughts and prayers Brother.

Just a note to let you know how I am doing. Finished up 7 weeks of Chemo and Radiation at the Ann Arbor V.A. Will not know if the cancer has been cured or not until May. Another great thing happened while in the hospital suffered a heart attack. So sometime a 3 way by-pass will have to take place. Sorry I didn't get this out sooner. Its been a real tuff 3 months.
Thanks Jim Payne

Bob,

Thanks for the heads-up on the latest spam post to our Guestbook. To answer your question, How much hacking does the 589th site get? We get at least 10 spam Website Comments (that little form at the bottom of each page) every day. We also get a few fake spam posts for the Reunion, VA Questionnaire, New Member Ap, and Reunion Registration forms a week. On one occasion we had over 100 spam posts to our Guestbook in one day. It is very difficult, annoying and time consuming to try to combat this BS. We have added a more complex CAPTCHA, which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" before submitting your post and that helped but it does not stop all the spam as you see. We'll keep working on a better solution!

Please be gentle on C Co's EM Platoon wanting to "put it all behind them". That is a personal issue and I think they're working on it. Hell they seemed almost normal for most of last years reunion!

Welcome Home Brothers

Perry, I see we have a post from “miss marie loan firm” offering to make us loans and clear our debt. I don’t remember her myself - she was undoubtedly assigned to the EM Platoon of C Company, which answers a lot of questions for the rest of us. I understand C Company is trying to put all that behind them now, so I will let it rest – after all, I have always been an advocate of “what happened in Vietnam stays in Vietnam.” Besides, that is not the point of this post. My question is how much hacking activity does our website receive? I know that some junk gets through in spite of you monitoring the site continuously – I think it is impossible to keep it all out. But how much hacking activity does the site receive that we as users don’t even know about?

Just wanted to give a shout to all our 589th brothers.Looking forward to seeing all of you in Branson this Sept.We just missed a big snow storm here.Dont need any more,done.Perry,again,great job on our websight. thanks

HAPPY BAND OF BROTHERS DAY
to all of my 589th brothers and to all vets who have honorably served.

Where did you find the old col at? He put us through some hard times but we made it. Will see you in Branson in Sep.