Bravo Company, 1/12, 4th Inf Div 1968-1970

Join us at the all Red Warriors units, any year reunion: Sept 4 - 6, 2008 in St. Louis, MO at http://www.redwarriors.us/

April 24, 2008

Fellow Red Warriors,

Just wanted to let you know that the 2008 reunion plans are
progressing nicely.  Currently we have 62 Red Warriors
registered, of whom 58 have made their room
reservations. Considering that we have four months
left before the reunion, these are excellent numbers. 
I’m still predicting a record turn-out.  (Of course
you don’t have to wait until the last minute to
register.)

A small problem has come up that I need your help
with.  Reviewing our hotel reservation list provided
by the staff, I find that we have two people with
reservations who are not Red Warriors; at least they
don’t show up on any of our unit manning rosters. 
When the hotel takes a reservation call, they have no
way of knowing whether the caller is a Red Warrior or
not, so I turn to you for help in solving this
mystery.

I’m concerned that perhaps a Red Warrior may have
invited a friend or family member to attend and
forgotten to list them as guests on their
registration.  Or we could have two strangers who want
to share in our event for some reason.  Either way, I
need to figure out their status.

The two names are William Kaho and Linda Kowcheck.  If
anyone recognizes either or both names, please contact
me immediately.  My phone number is 815-369-2330 and
my email is thearmyspast@mchsi.com.   Thanks for your
help.

See you in September!

Sincerely,

Roger Hill
Reunion Coordinator

Bravo Company Red Warriors
Jim Rice	4^th Infantry Division Steadfast and Loyal	Top
Hey guys. Can anyone please e-mail me back and tell me if they are considering coming to the next reunion? Thank you, thank you. I know we can never be certain what may come up by 2009. It will give me an idea of how many are coming. I have some things I'm trying to do and I need to kind of know. Please reply when you read this. You don't have to be sure, just if it is possible you`ll be here. All of us guys would love to have you there. We all bring our stuff and pictures of each other that we have from over there lol, to share them for others to see. SAVE THE DATE NOTICE B Company 1^st Battlion, 12^th Infantry, 4 ^th Division Reunion Please join us for our next Reunion which will be on September 11 to 13, 2009 in Owensboro, Kentucky at the: Executive Inn Rivermont. One Executive Boulevard Owensboro, KY • 42301 270.926.8000 • 800.626.1936 www.executiveinnrivermont.com We will have a great time! If you’ve missed any of the others; don’t miss this one! You will have the time of your life. Mark the date on your calendar; put it on your refrigerator; put it in your cell phone! You don’t want to miss this one!!! The Executive Inn Rivermont is stunning with tons of amenities and overlooks the beautiful Ohio River. The price per room is $89.00/night plus tax with a choice of a King-size bed or two Doubles. Suites are available for $169.00/night plus tax. For those of you flying in, you have two choices: Owensboro Airport - The hotel shuttle will pick you up and take you back at no charge Evansville, Indiana Airport - The hotel shuttle will pick you up and take you back for $35.00 each way - $70.00 round trip Tentative Agenda To get our Reunion started, on Friday, September 11th, we’ll begin convening in The International Room B from 5 to 11 pm to register, get name tags and meet & greet. Please bring all of your pictures and souvenirs to share. A Cash Bar will be available from 6 to 10 pm with a nice assortment of Finger Foods consisting of a Fruit, Cheese & Crackers Tray, Vegetable & Ranch Dip Tray, Tortilla Chips & Salsa. Also, for those interested, the Hotel Restaurant has a great buffet for $13.95 (Not included in Registration Fee). On Saturday morning, September 12th, a Breakfast Buffet with choices of Sausage, Bacon, Ham, Eggs, Country Potatoes, Biscuits & Gravy, Grits, Waffles, Pancakes and Fruit will be served in the Patio Room from 6 to 10:30 am. Our meeting room, The International Room B will be open from 10 to 12 noon. Saturday afternoon is free time to spend as you please. On Saturday evening, we’ll start meeting at 5 pm in The International Room B. A Cash Bar will be available from 5 to 9 pm. Dinner will be a Buffet of Southern Fried Chicken, Pork, Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Sweet Baby Carrots and Hot Rolls. Desserts are German Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake and Coconut, Apple or Pecan Pie. All meals include coffee, tea and water. Please let Jim’s wife, Debbie Rice, at BigDRice50@aol.com know as soon as possible if you plan to come. This will help determine what the Registration Fee will be. Registration Fee includes: Reservation of Meeting room & Video Equipment on Friday & Saturday; Cash bar on Friday & Saturday, Finger Foods on Friday, Breakfast and Dinner on Saturday and any other expenses the meeting coordinator might have. We had a great time in Septmber 2007. About 25 men showed up.	Letters Pearl Harbor Day Sent in by Larry A poem about a Christmas Marine. Download the MP3, then save and play. text version Friday Mornings at the Pentagon Story Created: Thanksgiving Day, 2007 I received this in an email and thought I might pass it on here.... more A photobook in PDF sent in from Ellie Placed here Oct 10, 2007 From a Chaplain in Iraq I recently attended a showing of "Superman 3," here at LSA Anaconda. We have a large auditorium we use for movies, as well as memorial services and other large gatherings. As is the custom back in the States, we stood and snapped to attention when the National Anthem began before the main feature. All was going as planned until about three-quarters of the way through the National Anthem the music stopped. Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 18-22 year-olds back in the State's? I imagine there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude comments; and everyone would sit down and call for a movie. Of course, that is, if they had stood for the National Anthem in the first place. Here, the 1,000 Soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward. The music started again. The Soldiers continued to quietly stand at attention. And again, at the same point, the music stopped. What would you expect to happen? Even here I would imagine laughter, as everyone finally sat down and expected the movie to start. But here, you could have heard a pin drop. Every Soldier continued to stand at attention. Suddenly there was a lone voice, then a dozen, and quickly the room was filled with the voices of a thousand Soldiers, finishing where the recording left off: "And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" It was the most inspiring moment I have had here in Iraq. I wanted you to know what kind of Soldiers are serving you here. Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins on 5/14/07. LSA Anaconda is at the Balad Airport in Iraq, north of Bagdad. See a tribute to veterans painted rock more from... Larry's pages Old Letters To help a soldier in Afghanistan: Place items into a plastic zipper locking bag to keep dirt out. Remember what we got: chocolate melts. Put it into a padded box or bag. Seal and mail to: Major Sean Gustafson 207^th RCAG West HERAT AFGHANISTAN, APO AE 09354 Same cost as mailing inside the U.S. of A.	"For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know." The loss of American Prestige in the Vietnam War is still coming home to roost. It was only a few years after the war before the Middle Eastern rebels started to push our boundaries. Nov. 4, 1979 Hostages taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Then ...more first World Trade Center attack in 1993 ...the ship The Cole ... Today's terrorist troubles started after the World saw us as a Paper Tiger. We have yet to see if the current leadership in Congress will have the guts to win the War on Radical Islam. London, England .....more on Jesse's life and sad Passing.

Bravo Company Red Warriors

Jim Rice

4^th Infantry Division
Steadfast and Loyal

Top

Hey guys. Can anyone please e-mail me back and tell me if they are considering coming to the next reunion? Thank you, thank you. I know we can never be certain what may come up by 2009. It will give me an idea of how many are coming. I have some things I'm trying to do and I need to kind of know. Please reply when you read this. You don't have to be sure, just if it is possible you`ll be here. All of us guys would love to have you there. We all bring our stuff and pictures of each other that we have from over there lol, to share them for others to see.

SAVE THE DATE NOTICE

B Company 1^st Battlion, 12^th Infantry,
4 ^th Division Reunion

Please join us for our next Reunion which will be on September 11 to 13, 2009 in Owensboro, Kentucky at the:

Executive Inn Rivermont.

One Executive Boulevard

Owensboro, KY • 42301

270.926.8000 • 800.626.1936

www.executiveinnrivermont.com

We will have a great time! If you’ve missed any of the others; don’t miss this one! You will have the time of your life. Mark the date on your calendar; put it on your refrigerator; put it in your cell phone! You don’t want to miss this one!!! The Executive Inn Rivermont is stunning with tons of amenities and overlooks the beautiful Ohio River. The price per room is $89.00/night plus tax with a choice of a King-size bed or two Doubles. Suites are available for $169.00/night plus tax. For those of you flying in, you have two choices:

Owensboro Airport - The hotel shuttle will pick you up and take you back at no charge
Evansville, Indiana Airport - The hotel shuttle will pick you up and take you back for $35.00 each way - $70.00 round trip

Tentative Agenda

To get our Reunion started, on Friday, September 11th, we’ll begin convening in The International Room B from 5 to 11 pm to register, get name tags and meet & greet. Please bring all of your pictures and souvenirs to share. A Cash Bar will be available from 6 to 10 pm with a nice assortment of Finger Foods consisting of a Fruit, Cheese & Crackers Tray, Vegetable & Ranch Dip Tray, Tortilla Chips & Salsa. Also, for those interested, the Hotel Restaurant has a great buffet for $13.95 (Not included in Registration Fee).

On Saturday morning, September 12th, a Breakfast Buffet with choices of Sausage, Bacon, Ham, Eggs, Country Potatoes, Biscuits & Gravy, Grits, Waffles, Pancakes and Fruit will be served in the Patio Room from 6 to 10:30 am.

Our meeting room, The International Room B will be open from 10 to 12 noon. Saturday afternoon is free time to spend as you please.

On Saturday evening, we’ll start meeting at 5 pm in The International Room B. A Cash Bar will be available from 5 to 9 pm. Dinner will be a Buffet of Southern Fried Chicken, Pork, Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Sweet Baby Carrots and Hot Rolls. Desserts are German Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake and Coconut, Apple or Pecan Pie. All meals include coffee, tea and water.

Please let Jim’s wife, Debbie Rice, at BigDRice50@aol.com know as soon as possible if you plan to come. This will help determine what the Registration Fee will be. Registration Fee includes: Reservation of Meeting room & Video Equipment on Friday & Saturday; Cash bar on Friday & Saturday, Finger Foods on Friday, Breakfast and Dinner on Saturday and any other expenses the meeting coordinator might have.

We had a great time in Septmber 2007. About 25 men showed up.

Letters

Pearl Harbor Day

Sent in by Larry

A poem about a Christmas Marine. Download the MP3, then save and play. text version

Friday Mornings at the Pentagon

Story Created: Thanksgiving Day, 2007
I received this in an email and thought I might pass it on here.... more

A photobook in PDF sent in from Ellie

Placed here Oct 10, 2007
From a Chaplain in Iraq

I recently attended a showing of "Superman 3," here at LSA Anaconda. We have a large auditorium we use for movies, as well as memorial services and other large gatherings. As is the custom back in the States, we stood and snapped to attention when the National Anthem began before the main feature. All was going as planned until about three-quarters of the way through the National Anthem the music stopped.

Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 18-22 year-olds back in the State's? I imagine there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude comments; and everyone would sit down and call for a movie. Of course, that is, if they had stood for the National Anthem in the first place.

Here, the 1,000 Soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward. The music started again. The Soldiers continued to quietly stand at attention. And again, at the same point, the music stopped. What would you expect to happen? Even here I would imagine laughter, as everyone finally sat down and expected the movie to start.

But here, you could have heard a pin drop. Every Soldier continued to stand at attention. Suddenly there was a lone voice, then a dozen, and quickly the room was filled with the voices of a thousand Soldiers, finishing where the recording left off:

"And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

It was the most inspiring moment I have had here in Iraq. I wanted you to know what kind of Soldiers are serving you here.

Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins on 5/14/07.
LSA Anaconda is at the Balad Airport in Iraq, north of Bagdad.

See a tribute to veterans painted rock
more from...

Larry's pages

Old Letters To help a soldier in Afghanistan:
Place items into a plastic zipper locking bag to keep dirt out. Remember what we got: chocolate melts. Put it into a padded box or bag. Seal and mail to:

Major Sean Gustafson
207^th RCAG West
HERAT AFGHANISTAN,
APO AE 09354
Same cost as mailing inside the U.S. of A.

"For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know."

The loss of American Prestige in the Vietnam War is still coming home to roost. It was only a few years after the war before the Middle Eastern rebels started to push our boundaries. Nov. 4, 1979 Hostages taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Then ...more
first World Trade Center attack in 1993 ...the ship The Cole ...
Today's terrorist troubles started after the World saw us as a Paper Tiger. We have yet to see if the current leadership in Congress will have the guts to win the War on Radical Islam.

Protester in London

London, England

.....more on Jesse's life and sad Passing.

SAVE THE DATE NOTICE

Letters

Pearl Harbor Day

Friday Mornings at the Pentagon

"For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know."

LINKS

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Paul Judge's pages about his brother: