20 JANUARY 2012
NEWSLETTER
OUR 13TH REUNION WILL BE
JULY16-22, 2012
AT THE SHERATON NORFOLK WATERSIDE HOTEL
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
Reunion website is now active
on our website home page, www.usswisconsin.org
and on
our newsletters. To access, click on the following:
www.militaryreunionplanners.com/wisconsin
Please
READ the instructions carefully!
Hotel
reservation information, Events information, payment methods,
airport transportation, parking and how to submit your completed forms are
covered on the reunion website.
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Scuttlebutt The origin of the word "scuttlebutt," which is nautical parlance for a rumor, comes from a combination of "scuttle", to make a hole in the ship's hull and thereby causing her to sink and "butt", a cask or hogshead used in the days of wooden ships to hold drinking water. The cask from which the ship's crew took their drinking water ,like a water fountain, was the "scuttlebutt". Even in today's Navy a drinking fountain is referred to as such. But, since the crew used to congregate around the "scuttlebutt", that is where the rumors about the ship or voyage would begin. Thus, then and now, rumors are talk from the "scuttlebutt" or just "scuttlebutt". |
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FACEBOOK INFORMATION
If you are a Facbook
member, you may want to check out the following two Facebook
pages;
I Served on USS Wisconsin BB-64 USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Reunion 2012
Neither of these two pages are
association pages. Pages were started by former crew members wanting to rekindle
shipboard friendship.
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