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Well I would just like to thank all of you responsible for VetFriends.com as I had decided to work on a reunion of the 590th Transportation Co. for those that were in the unit between 1961 and 1964 time frame. And after 40+ years of separation it was a much more monumental task than I had figured until I stumbled upon VetFriends.com.

But to make a long story short I was able to locate about 20 former members of the 590th and so I went ahead and set up a reunion in Branson, MO. and we had 12 of us that actually made the reunion. It was so nice to meet back up with all those friends that hadn't seen or talked with each other for over 40 years. We now have set up a 2005 reunion in Branson again for Labor Day weekend. '
Johnny Stamps
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Bill Braden & I were "Best of Buddies" in Grade School (lst 5 grades). We moved away from ALA, and then moved back in l958 as Juniors at Woodlawn High, in Bham, WEB SITE: www.WoodlawnHigh.Org (Class of 59).

He was in the Army in the 101st Airborne, in Viet Nam & I was in the USAF, AUG 59-Jan 67. Once on leave in l963, we got together at his parent's home, & then he & his dad took me back to the farm. We lived at Coalburg ALA, where Lassiter Mountain Race Track is now located, & after that I lost track of him.

Over the years, I tried to find him to no avail, but when the WOODLAWN site mentioned "Re-Union" I thought I could find him, but he wasn't listed, so I started putting emails all over the internet. One night I got a call, & it was Bill. It seems that he has a daughter living about 10 miles from me, IN OKLAHOMA, while he's still in Birmingham, ALABAMA, at Vulcan Materials. Now, I'm Retired.

In 2003, just before Thanksgiving, he came to see his daughter & we had our own "Mini-Reunion" just the two of us, at the "Old Country Buffet" a Local Restaurant. We have been on the internet & on the phone several times, I talk to him about www.VetFriends.com & together we share the info with the others we find. ' '
Robert Gwin
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After leaving the Air Force in 1972, I took a job as a civilian employee in Saudi Arabia in 1977. I met and became friends with a retired Army buddy named Silas Brown who was working for the same company at the same location. After completing my contract, I returned to the States and maintained contact with him for several years. As Time passed I lost track of him, but he was always on my mind.

When I joined Vet Friends, I read about the email locator service, and sent him an email. Fortunately he had also become a member, and responded to my email. We talked on the phone several times in the last few years, and finally in September 2004 while on a trip out West, we were able to meet in El Paso, TX for a short visit. It was a wonderful moment that we will both remember for the rest of our lives, and we owe it to Vet Friends. Thanks for making it possible. '
Larry Prickett
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Thank You Very Much For all your help, I found him!!!!!!!!! After 22 Years!!!!
Dan S
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I would like to share with you my reunion story. I started looking for my old company after 43 years. Vet Friends is what got me started with their info and help over the past 3 years. Now I have had a reunion at my place for about 10 of us. It has been great. This year in June we are having our reunion and planning on having 52 men from the 574th trans, with their families. If it hadn't been for Vet Friends I would have only kept track of one man in IOWA. Thank you VET FRIENDS for getting me started. We love our vets. God bless you. '
Richard S.
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I lost my high school sweetheart in Vietnam in 1966. He was a Marine sergeant. Since I wasn't a family member and he was an orphan, I was unable to find out what happened to him in any detail.

Through VetFriends I was able to find out where he died and how. I feel much more peaceful now just knowing. Thank you. And thanks to all of you most sincerely for your service and for the sacrifices you have made for me and those who were left behind when you went to war.

Very sincerely yours, Judith Lancefield
Judith Lancefield
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I retired from the Air Force in May, 1986, at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. I had been assigned there from Howard AFB, Panama, in November, 1982. When I left Howard, I left behind many good friends. But one particularly good buddy was my Assistant NCOIC, SSgt Warren N. (Neal) McCoy. Like me, he is (as I remember) from the great State of Alabama.

Last year (2004), I purchased my first computer. After I had become accustomed to doing web searches and finding a site like this one, I decided to see if I could locate any of my old comrades from my Blue Suiter days. Neal was one man I never expected to reunite with, but I looked him up, anyway. I found several Warren N. McCoys but only one who had been an NCO. His last address was in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I found a telephone number through this reunion website and called it without any real hope that the man at the other end of the line would be my friend, Neal. I got an answering machine and left my name and telephone number. He called me back the next day and, lo and behold, it was Neal.

We spent about 45 minutes on the phone that night talking over old times and about old companions who had gone separate ways. I now have his e-mail address and telephone number and he has mine. We can now talk to each other anytime we wish via e-mail and I have invited him and his lovely wife (whom I have never met) to stop over in Tuscaloosa so I can see him again when he and his wife travel to their Christmas destination. It was great to know that he and I were as good friends as when we served together in Panama. One story we both chuckled about was the time we both tried to learn Spanish in Panama. A simple enough language to learn, but oh, how we could butcher word pronunciations for even the simplest sentence.

I miss him, but now we have a means to keep in touch, thanks to VetFriends.com. Thank you for being there and enabling old friends to connect again over time and distance. '
Felix
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