Thank You
Sgt. Grit,
Headquarters Company 9th Marine Regiment 3rd Marine Division (Republic of Vietnam 1964 ~ 1969) met in Charleston, SC on March 24 ~ March 27, 2009 for our 3rd reunion. When you learned of our reunion you made contact with one of our men and made arrangements to send many items from your catalogue to give out to those attending; this is to let you know that your gifts were waiting for us at the hotel and we were able to hand out to our men when we gathered at the local VFW Post on the 26th for a time of fellowship and memory. Thank you very much for your contribution to our time of fellowship.
I am enclosing a several of the photos from our ?gathering?; the first photo is a group photo taken prior to a dinner cruise in Charleston harbor, next is a photo of the infamous yellow foot prints awaiting each new recruit at Paris Island and the third photo of HqCo9thMarines standing on those footprints. There were two newly formed platoons within ear and eye sight to witness us forming up on the foot prints and I could only imagine was going through their minds as well as the Drill Instructor that was with them. I should pass along that if any other Marines visit either recruit depot they should be cautious of their behavior; one Drill Instructor caught me talking in the mess hall and required me to do some push ups for that infraction. All in all we had a wonderful time there; we got to test our skills on the M 16 simulator at the rifle range. I would highly recommend others to hold reunions where a side trip to PI would be available. We hope to meet again in San Diego sometime in 2011.
I hope to soon publish more photos from our reunion on our website www.hqco9thmarines.com .
Again, thank you for what you contributed toward our reunion and also for you posting a link to our website several months ago. I know that a lot of Marines visit your website and with you making links available to sites such as ours helps us as we try and locate men from our company.
Please feel free to use this e-mail and photos if you like.
I can be reached at jackloveday [at] scrtc.com .