Glad to see a comment on the Guest Book concerning the emails sent out today. You now have his personal information also so keep all the thoughts or prayers coming!

Fletcher,I am in ernist prayer for you at this time all my thoughts and prayers are with you.We are brothers who have been through many trials.He has been there with us.I look forward to meet you at the reunion.keep looking up brother....

Hi, I wanted to share this email I received from Tom as it is another good reason and result from attending one of our reunions if you have not already have or to attend another one!

Nick,
Forgot to mention in my previous email that after attending last year's reunion I went to Alabama to visit my brother. He arrived in Vietnam shortly after I left in 1968. After more than 40 years we at last talked/opened up about our Vietnam experience.
I don't think that this would have happen if I had not attended the reunion.
I wish that I could thank everyone personally for making this to happen. Just wanted to let you know.
Thanks
Tom Briseño

Charles Begley, I got there about 2 weeks before you did. HAHA. Will see you at the reunion in Sep my Brother.

I join the 589th Eng BN in Apeil 1966,and was sent to B company where 1Sgt Charlea McDonald ,and Cpt John Sparks was the commander. IN April,1967 left Ft Hood Texas on a train bound to Okland California where i got on the USS General John Pope On my way to Veit Nam .And landed in Qui Nhon.

To all 589thBn Iwant to remind all to check home fire alarms and Co2 alarms.Recently afamily of four passed because batteries were dead. Im looking forward to seeing all of you in Sept...not to far off now.

Take a look at your calendars and you will see the reunion is only a little over 6 months away! Time sure flies. We are getting sign ups already and a lot of planning is going on. Watch your email for upcoming things and especially the Golf Outing being planned by Golf Chairman Jim Swick! Jim has set up an outing and the final details are being worked out now. You will see something soon! Lets get those sign ups and hotel reservations made now so your calendars are locked up for the reunion. See you there!

Thanks Perry it worked great!!

Hello Howard, and everybody else that is trying to view our photos on an iPad or iPhone. I have been looking for an another way to view these albums w/o using Flash however none of these offer a good alternative.

There apparently is a work-around according to Clyde Hutson though. Here is what he had to say a few weeks ago on the subject:

"There is one issue that is proving difficult and that concerns viewing photos on an iPad. The photos require Adobe Flash Player which is not supported by an iPad or iPhone. I am sorry to say that the best way I can come up with is to download a browser from the app store called Puffin Browser Free. There are other browsers that will do this but most if not all the others are not free. I installed this on my iPad and it seems to work. Having said that I will probably not use it except on rare occasions where a PC is not available and I want to see the photos at that moment."

I know this is probably not the answer you were looking for but it at least sounds like a way to see the photos. If any of you have a better option please let us know.

My iPad does not accept Adobe flash player. How can I see the photos in VN Photos. I would like to refresh my 71 year old memory

For all of you guys that have been anxiously waiting for the Mesh Caps, we now have them back in stock.

Order away from the PX Page.

In thinking of Bob's, Perry's, Nick's and my comments, I was amazed at the "sweep of history" of the Vietnam War. Three generations fought the war: some of the teenagers of the late 1930s and early 1940's who fought in WWII also fought in Vietnam; some of the teenagers of the late 1940s and early 1950s who fought in the Korean War also fought in Vietnam; and many of us teenagers of the late 1950s and 1960s fought in Vietnam (A Company did other things in addition to fighting). Vietnam affected the people of America, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam across multiple generations. And don't forget the Australians and Koreans who fought in Vietnam. Being in the "dwindling 1/3d of Vietnam veterans" is certainly unsettling. I'm beginning to feel like some part of history that needs to be taken off the shelf occasionally to be dusted off. How do we deal with this? Perhaps we can somewhat deal with it by being honored to have known those who have gone before us; perhaps by honoring them by living our remaining lives with appreciation for the time we still have that they don't; and perhaps by honoring them by living each day the best we can whether those days are good days or bad days. Meanwhile, we are part of history - as far as I'm concerned "that other great generation" who loved their country and sacrificed for it.

The comment about only 1/3d of Vietnam veterans being all that are left alive is about right. Us "young" guys forget that the war started with "advisor" action in the early half a decade before we got there, and that many of the senior officers and NCOs had previously fought in World War II and the Korean War (we had one Korean War veteran in our platoon). This older "John Wayne" generation makes up the bulk of those who are already gone. Its us "youngsters" who are still left. I'm not ready to go yet - A Company needs me.