26 March 2010
NEWSLETTER
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USS Wisconsin BB-64 Reunion
September 7-12, 2010 Olympia Resort, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
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of Oconomowoc Home Page
Our reunion website is now active.
To access it, click on the following:
www.militaryreunionplanners.com/wisconsin
Please READ the
instructions carefully! Everyone has the
option of registering online and paying with a credit card (which incurs fees
for processing) or the forms can be printed and mailed in to Military Reunion
Planners, with no additional processing fees.
We will be posting attendees on our weekly newsletter since the
attendees’ info will not be online until 4 months before the reunion. There is a link to our weekly newsletters on
the attendee page.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING
YOU
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Please keep your email address up to
date with LaDonna
even if you don’t want it posted online.
Please contact LaDonna
Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601)
693-4614
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FROM MY PERSONAL LOG
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On This Day, March 26th 1954 Yokosuka, Japan Mar. 25th – Apr. 1st 1956 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Mar.21st – Mar. 28th At Sea Mar.28th – Mar. 31st My personal log ended when I was
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REINSTATED MEMBER |
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PNSA Personnel Division |
1987-1988 |
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NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER |
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Cindy Weber |
Wife of Kenneth Weber PNSA
Pers. Div. |
1987-1988 |
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EMAIL ADDITION NON MEMBER |
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OS3 OI Division |
1988 |
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EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE NON MEMBER |
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Paul Gregoire |
FN E Division |
1956-1958 |
TURNOVER CEREMONY OF
THE USS WISCONSIN
Those wanting to attend the turnover ceremony
of the USS Wisconsin from The US Navy to the City of Norfolk, VA at 10:00am April 16, 2010 can RSVP at rsvpnauticus@gmail.com no later than
April 6, 2010.
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Following is an email I
received pertaining to the USS Wisconsin BB-9 ship’s bell
Dear Sir,
I'm ex-Navy
and a resident of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In the news I read of our city is
constructing a new firehouse and placing an old bell in the tower. I
spotted the bell one day and on closer look it turns out the bell is from the first ship of the fleet to carry
the name WISCONSIN. I've included in this mailing several
photographs of the bell with the hope that you might include them in your
newsletter so that your members might assist the campaign to
save this bell and place it in an appropriate setting. I've contacted our
state's veteran museum and they have your ship's bell and would like to
have the first Wisconsin’s bell inside the capitol building. I've also
written the local Navy League with the request to assist this important
mission. I respect firefighters and they need a bell, but please not just this
one. Let us honor the sailors and Marines from so long ago by saving this
bell. Please give me a call or e-mail for more information of U.S.S.
WISCONSIN BB-9's ship bell.
Greg Stamatelakys
BM-2
U.S.S.
SAVANNAH AOR-4
1977-'81
414-520-1569
In my email to Greg, I informed him that our ships bell was
donated by the state of Wisconsin to Nauticus on
December 7, 2000.
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PLEASE REMEMBER TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRAYERS,
OUR SICK AND DEPARTED SHIPMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS